- Calendar
- Thursday 20 November 2025
- Clock
- 13:30–18:00
Overview
Featuring talks by Oliver Haimson and Nazanin Andalibi, plus a panel discussion chaired by Alice Ross and networking reception.
Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and AI Ethics & Society, supported by the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
All welcome.
About the speakers
Nazanin Andalibi is an associate professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the United States. As a social computing, human-computer interaction (HCI), and critical data studies scholar, her research examines how marginality is experienced, enacted, facilitated, or disrupted in and as mediated through sociotechnical systems such as artificial intelligence and social media.
Oliver Haimson is an Associate Professor at University of Michigan School of Information and author of Trans Technologies (MIT Press 2025). His research examines how marginalized individuals and communities, especially trans and queer people, use social technologies and envision future technologies.
Alice Ross is a PhD researcher in the School of Informatics in Edinburgh, looking at the politics and ethics of speech technology (and its applications) through feminist and anarchist lenses, with a focus on values of autonomy, accessibility and sustainability. Her research examines how attitudes and ideologies inform design decisions in speech technology. Alice is particularly interested in what we stand to gain and lose in adopting new technologies: asking, who is empowered? And who is left out or disenfranchised? Their recent publications include ‘Conveying gender through speech: insights from trans men’, and ‘Beyond the binary: limitations and possibilities of gender-related speech technology research’.