Octavia is Associate Director (Impact & research practice) at the Ada Lovelace Institute. 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.
Before joining Ada, Octavia worked in the creative and cultural industries as a gallerist and artist studio manager, in publishing as a commissioning editor, and in the technology sector as a product manager. Most recently, she worked in higher education, leading on strategic content and impact at the Royal College of Art.
Octavia has an MA in Digital Media Culture, with a subject specialism in cultural studies of tech workers. She is an advisory board member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Patterns in practice at the University of Sheffield. Octavia is currently completing an MSc in Social Research.
Featured work
What does Ada Lovelace mean to you?
Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2020 with six women computer scientists.
How does structural racism impact on data and AI?
Why we need to acknowledge that structural racism is a fundamental driver and cause of the data divide
Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day: what Ada means to us
Celebrating the contribution to global culture of a remarkable woman: a curious visionary, poetical scientist and collaborative thinker.