Kelly Widdicks, the main contact for the workshop, is an EPSRC Doctoral Prize researcher at Lancaster University, interested in understanding and mitigating the negative impacts of technology. Her research to date has concerned the sustainability and digital wellbeing implications of HCI design, both of which would benefit from technology governance. She is currently working with Knowles and Blair to study how researchers and technologists prioritise and negotiate innovation—providing insights into how technology may be governed in the sector for a sustainable future.

Bran Knowles is a Senior Lecturer in the Data Science Institute at Lancaster University. Her research explores socially responsible and trusted computing across a wide range of contexts. She currently serves on the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee where she leads the Sustainability standing group and recently authored ACM Europe’s official response to the EU Commission’s Green Deal (bit.ly/2B2v92e).

Gordon Blair is a Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, and is Co-Director of the recently created Center of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, a joint initiative with UKCEH. He also holds a prestigious EPSRC Senior Fellowship in Digital Technology and Living with Environmental Change (DT/LWEC). His research interests are concerned with how digital innovation can support understanding and management of the natural environment.

Carolyn Ten Holter is a researcher in the Human Centred Computing Group at the University of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science. She is part of the Responsible Technology Institute, and her work focuses on the application of responsible innovation (RI) methodologies – including sustainability – to both academic and industrial innovation.

Marina Jirotka is Professor of Human Centred Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and has been at the forefront of recent work in Responsible Innovation (RI) in the UK and the European Union. She leads an interdisciplinary research group investigating the responsible development of technologies that are more responsive to societal acceptability and desirability. She has recently been awarded an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship on Developing Responsible Robotics for the Digital Economy, and is Director of the Responsible Technology Institute at Oxford.

Federica Lucivero is a Senior Researcher at the Nuffield Department of Population Health. Her expertise spans ethics, social studies of science and technology, and governance of innovation. She has recently published on the moral and ethical aspects related to the environmental impacts of data-driven technologies.

Gabrielle Samuel is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. Her research draws on qualitative methods to explore the ethical, social and regulatory issues associated with new and emerging data-driven health and forensic technologies and methodologies. She has particular interest in AI, genomics, and digital health technologies more generally.

Helena Webb is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. She investigates the sociology of technology, responsible innovation and Human-Computer Interaction. Helena has expertise in exploring the lived experience of technology and identifying mechanisms to ensure innovations better meet societal and environmental needs.