southampton

Project overview

ProTechThem2.0 is an ESRC-funded project that integrates insights and expertise from criminology and computer sciences to enable better targeted awareness-raising activities and to improve the tools we currently have to promote ethical social media platform algorithms and prevent or mitigate the negative impacts of sharenting practices. Dr Pamela Ugwudike is leading the project.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Pamela Ugwudike LLB (Hons), MA, PhD, FHEA

Professor

Research interests

AI Ethics
Algorithms in Justice Systems
Trustworthy and Responsible AI

Connect with Pamela

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Dr Stuart Middleton

Associate Professor

Research interests

Natural Language Processing
Human-in-the-loop NLP: Active Learning, Adversarial Training, Rationale-based Learning, Interactive Sense Making
Information Extraction: Few/Zero Shot Learning, Graph-based Models, Behaviour Classification, Geoparsing/Location Extraction, Event Extraction, Argument Mining

Connect with Stuart

Email: [email protected]

Professor Silke Roth

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

activism and volunteering
humanitarianism
political participation

Connect with Silke

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Sharenting and social media properties: exploring vicarious data harms and socio-technical mitigations

Pamela Ugwudike, Silke Roth, Anita Lavorgna, Stuart E. Middleton, Natalie Djohari, Morena Tartari & Arpan Mandal, 2024, Big Data & Society, 11(1)

DOI: 10.1177/20539517231219243

Type: article

Implementing responsible innovation: the role of the Meso-level(s) between project and organisation

Bernd Carsten Stahl, Virginia Portillo, Hanne Wagner, Peter J. Craigon, Dimitrios Darzentas, Santiago De Ossorno Garcia, Liz Dowthwaite, Chris Greenhalgh, Stuart E. Middleton, Elena Nichele, Christian Wagner & Helena Webb, 2024, Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1)

DOI: 10.1080/23299460.2024.2370934

Type: article

Online sharenting: identifying existing vulnerabilities and demystifying media reported crime risks

Anita Lavorgna, Pamela Ugwudike & Morena Tartari, 2023, Crime, Media, Culture, 19(4), 472-490

DOI: 10.1177/17416590221148448

Type: article

Identifying key challenges and needs in digital mental health moderation practices supporting users exhibiting risk behaviours to develop responsible AI tools

Elena Nichele, Anita Lavorgna & Stuart Middleton, 2022, SN Social Sciences, 2(10), 217

DOI: 10.1007/s43545-022-00532-3

Type: article

Trust, regulation, and human-in-the-loop AI: within the European region

Stuart Middleton, Emmanuel Letouzé, Ali Hossaini & Age Chapman, 2022, Communications of the ACM, 65(4), 64–68