Early Career Research Showcase 2026
Join us for our Centre for Technomoral Futures Early Career Research Showcase!
At this hybrid event, we will celebrate the research and impact of our PhD and Postdoctoral Fellows and Affiliates. Through a series of short presentations and interactive poster sessions, our researchers will share insights into their work which spans across multiple disciplines, and offers diverse perspectives aligned with the Centre’s key research themes.
Agenda:
12.00: Lunch, Networking & Poster Presentations
Rayo Verweij: Constructing critical understandings of LLMs through "INFERENCE INTERFERENCE": a workshop for high school students
Alexandra Gillespie: AI Break-Ups and Lobotomies: Standards and Policy Recommendations for AI Companion Discontinuation
Ambrose Brown: Knowledge Neglect in Agent Interactions
Stella Prizeman-Green: Causal models and the limits of actionability
13.00: Welcome from our Co-Directors, Professor Shannon Vallor FRSE and Dr Emily Sullivan
13.10: Presentations 1-4 (20 minutes each including time for questions)
Harry Weir-McAndrew: Dead Zones of Responsibility and Artificial Agents
Dr Fabio Tollon: Companion Chatbots, Virtue Theatre, and Hermeneutic Harm
Sasha Lee Smit: “The Doctor Will Hear You Now”: Structurally produced epistemic injustice in the implementation of ambient voice technologies in healthcare
Kimberley Paradis: A Feminist Approach to the Interaction Design of General-Purpose LLM Chatbots: A Case Study of Health and Wellbeing
14.35: Break
15.05: Presentations 5-8 (20 minutes each including time for questions)
Dr Enrico Galvagni: Can you be cruel to a chatbot?
Bríd-Áine Parnell: "We were revolutionaries…": A short history of the long road to omnilingual digital text
Andrew Zelny: A-I'll Take Your Word for it: Aristotelian Sunesis in the Age of AI
We will also hear from CTMF Alum, Dr Joe Noteboom (Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning at Lancaster University)!
16.30: Closing Remarks
16.45 - 18.00: Networking Reception & Poster Presentations
Please note, there will be filming and photography taking place at this event to be used for future marketing, promotional and archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed/recorded, please let us know at the event.
If you have accessibility requirements, please contact ctmf@ed.ac.uk in advance of the event.