Bio
In her PhD, Emma is researching and developing practices to democratise the AI development process through more effective stakeholder involvement. She is in her second year at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Thomas Bohné, Stephen Cave, and Alan Blackwell. Her background is in Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and UX Research. Emma is a student fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, the Cyber-Human Lab, and the Centre for Human-Inspired AI. As part of her PhD, she is a research consultant for the Responsible AI Institute and the <AI & Equality> community. In her free time, she loves to go bouldering, DIY projects, and cycling.
Research interests
Emma's research focuses on democratising the AI development process through improved stakeholder involvement - both through more agency and involvement of stakeholders, as well as an improved fit to the existing AI development pipeline. Her main focus is on external stakeholders, such as operators, end-users, data subjects, or marginalised communities.
Emma is currently researching existing practices of stakeholder involvement, including the main bottlenecks. In a next step, she will co-deign a tool to overcome these obstacles. She is especially interested in how stakeholder involvement plays out at the different stages of the AI development process. Her research methods evolved from her previous employment as UX researcher.