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Postdoctoral research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. A political sociologist, her research investigates the politics of algorithmic injustice from a critical disability perspective. Her project at the Data Justice lab in 2023 focused on automated decision-making systems in the public sector and how these can be influenced, resisted, and reoriented to promote disability justice.

Digital policy specialist with a background in law and politics, having previously served as a parliamentarian in Zimbabwe. He is a doctoral student in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College, UK, with research interests spanning over data stewardship, governance and regulation of AI, IOT, and other emerging data innovations in the global south context. Brian’s Data Justice Fellowship project in 2023 engaged with Ghana’s digital landscape and tested models of civic participation in datafied contexts evolving in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ph.D. candidate in Media Studies at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University, Canada. She looks at the intersections of public, public space, and digital infrastructures. Her previous research addressed, among other issues, sites of violence in the digital sphere, data imaginaries in colonial and democratic India, and colonial narratives in photographs and memoirs by women. Her project as Data Justice Fellow in 2023 focused on facial recognition systems in India and civil society responses.

Lawyer and a researcher studying data regulation and governance from critical perspectives. Ramya was a fellow with the Berkeley Centre of Law Technology, and has worked with the World Bank, UNICEF, Guarini Global Law & Tech, and the Internet Democracy Project. As a Data Justice fellow in 2023, Ramya critically examined India’s national digital health ecosystem. She aimed to locate different “data publics” that are constituted by this data infrastructure and analysed how these publics participate in democratic regulation of data infrastructure.

Lawyer who works internationally as a consultant in competition and consumer law, data protection and new technology policies. She completed an LLM at the University of Cambridge and worked in a private practice, a Tribunal and as a regulatory advisor in Chile and the UK. Carolina was a Data Justice Lab research fellow in winter/spring 2021 and researched cases of discrimination and algorithmic bias. Particularly, she explored how citizens can discover if they have been a victim of data harm in commercial transactions in Latin America and learn about the legal avenues that they can take to obtain justice.

Data Justice Lab research fellow in February/March 2021. She was working at the intersection of technology and social justice in the South Asian context, examining the ways in which data driven technologies mediate the access and experience of democratic rights for different social groups, with a particular focus on conflict areas and labour rights. Her research engaged with the power negotiations between nation states and transnational tech corporations and how this impacts data rights in the context of developing nations. Ira has worked with Tandem Research and IT for Change (ITfC) and as a research assistant for the leading labour and human rights activist Aruna Roy. She has also worked with Bot Populi, an alternative media platform highlighting issues of digital justice from a global south perspective.

Silvia was a Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute and a Research Fellow at the Data Justice Lab in winter/spring 2021. She completed her PhD at the University of Warwick and studied at the Centre for Culture Studies, Goldsmiths College. She has worked as a culture writer and in various art and culture institutions in public engagement. At the Lab, Silvia worked on developing a typology of public administration algorithmic decision-making systems, and researched conditions for the institution of a public register (or another form of registering mechanism) in the UK. The project offered structural and historical insight into the use of algorithmic systems that now feed into various functions of the state.

Blu was a Fellow with the Data Justice Lab in spring 2021. She was also a Community-Participatory Researcher with the Our Data Bodies Collective, exploring the way frontline communicatees digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations, as well as the impacts of data systems on re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development. Blu’s work particularly focused on intersections between digital data collection and human rights, working with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks to amplify the experiences and stories of the communities most impacted, while developing popular education tools to help inform, activate, engage, and inspire communities to lead the charge against digital profiling. Blu is the co-author of the Digital Defense Playbook (2018).