Aidan is a Senior Consultant at Milltown Partners. Previously, Aidan worked as a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, leading our Public Participation & Research team and projects.

At the Ada Lovelace Institute, Aidan ensured public voices and perspectives shaped data and AI policy and practice. He led work on projects including the Citizens’ Biometrics Council, Who Cares What the Public Think?, and a UK-wide poll of public attitudes to AI in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute.

Aidan has more than 6 years’ experience conducting public attitudes and participatory research projects at the intersection of technology and society, on topics ranging from nuclear energy and health technology to web search engines and AI. He holds an MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics and has previously held positions at Wellcome and Understanding Patient Data.