GENDER - Key Persons
Dr Drage is a Senior Research Fellow on the 3.8m Desirable Digitalisation project, for which she is creating playbooks, games and tools to help AI ethics designers and project managers be responsive to AI Ethics. She is also helping companies across Europe respond to the EU AI act. Eleanor is a researcher at the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and specialises in feminist ideas to make artificial intelligence safer for everyone. Eleanor was previously a Christina Gaw Research Associate on the Gender and Technology Research Project, where she helped resolve AI ethics issues at a major technology multinational using feminist and anti-racist theory. She has presented findings to a range of audiences including the United Nations, NatWest, The Open Data Institute (ODI), the AI World Congress and the Institute of Science & Technology. Her work on AI-powered hiring tools has been covered by media outlets like the BBC, BBC Today, Forbes, the Register, and the Daily Mail, among other outlets. As part of this work, Eleanor led a team of computer science students in developing a tool that demonstrates the problematic logics behind AI-powered hiring tools that claim to deduce personality from someone's face. She is the co-host of The Good Robot Podcast, where she interviews top scholars and technologists about AI ethics, has appeared on popular shows such as The Guilty Feminist, and is a TikToker for All The Citizens' data rights channel. She holds an International Dual PhD from the University of Bologna and the University of Granada, where she was an Early-Stage Researcher for the EU Horizon 2020 ETN-ITN-Marie Curie project "GRACE" (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe). As part of this project Eleanor helped develop a software application that transmitted intersectional feminist ideas and methodologies to the general public. Her current research, which has been published in top journals such as Philosophy and Technology, investigates how humanity defines and constitutes itself both through socio-cultural processes such as race and gender and through its connection with computational networks and digital systems. She is the co-editor of the upcoming collection Feminist AI with Oxford University Press. Her other projects can be found at www.
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- Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre
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- Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre
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- Centre Director, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies / Associate Professor of Gender Studies
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- Trust Academic Career Development Fellow in Gender Studies and Human, Social, and Political Sciences ( HSPS )
Jessica Frankopan are both graduates of the University, and their involvement with the Centre and academia as a whole has been extensive. Remarkably loyal alumni of Cambridge since graduating from Jesus College in the early 1990s, the Frankopans have provided a variety of grants for University and College initiatives, and hosted the University's Gender Studies development meetings in London. Peter Frankopan, a specialist in the history of the Byzantine Empire, took a First Class degree in History at Cambridge. He then went on to complete his PhD at Oxford, where he is now a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. Jessica Frankopan read Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, before taking an MSc at the London School of Economics. She worked initially in International Development and authored a gender study on ‘The New Inequality'. Together, they are the founders of A Curious Group of Hotels based in England, France and the Netherlands.
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