Octavia is Associate Director (Public Participation & Research Practice) at the Ada Lovelace Institute. Leading Ada’s Public Participation Research and Research Practice teams, her role connects research design to strategy, project planning, external outputs, impact and evaluation, ensuring that the Institute fulfils its commitment to make data and AI work for people and society.
Octavia holds an MA in Digital Media Culture, an MSc in Social Research and is currently a PhD candidate in UCL Science and Technology Studies, with a subject specialism in technology governance and corporate law. She is Co-Investigator to the UKRI-funded Public Voices in Responsible AI programme, a member of the Digital Good Network (DGN) College of Experts and a member of the Smart Data Research (SDR) UK public engagement advisory board.
Featured work
What does Ada Lovelace mean to you?
Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2020 with six women computer scientists.
Public voices in AI
Exploring how to represent public voices in AI research, development and policy
Critical analytics?
Learning from the early adoption of data analytics for local authority service delivery
Participatory and inclusive data stewardship
How to involve people in the governance of their data.
Going public
Exploring public participation in commercial AI labs