Xin’s project investigates how everyday practices of image annotation contribute to algorithmic aesthetics and examines how aesthetic standards and human judgments become embedded in AI systems.

Nayantara’s project examines how digital technologies are transforming the humanitarian governance of Syrian refugees in Jordan. She investigates how these innovations are reshaping relationships among refugees, humanitarian actors, and private-sector partners.

Harry’s project investigates how moral expertise emerges through skilled engagement in relationships of reciprocal vulnerability and feedback, and how these mechanisms are disrupted in socio-technical systems that develop and deploy artificially intelligent systems.

Elisa’s work explores how we can empathise with the lived experience of ageing populations, designing digital devices and services that respond to their hopes and fears. The aim is to develop an expanded empathy framework for intergenerational inclusive design and codesign.