
Dr Simisola Akintoye

Dr Nitika Bhalla

Professor Laurence Brooks

Dr Mayen Cunden

Mr Martin de Heaver

Ms. Serena Dolby

Dr Damian Okaibedi Eke

Prof. Malcolm Fisk

Dr Catherine Flick

Yaseen Jakhura

Eirini Kalaitzopoulou

Mr Paul Keene

Dr Caroline Khene

Dr Willam Knight

Ms. Tonii Leach

Dr Neil McBride

Dr Funmi Obembe

Dr George Ogoh

Dr Adebowale Owoseni

Professor Kathleen Richardson

Dr Achim Rosemann

Professor Bernd Stahl

Dr Inga Ulnicane

Dr Kutoma Wakunuma

Dr Sara Wilford

Oluyinka Oyeniji

Vincent Bryce

Paschal Ochang

Dr. Mahmoud Elbasir

Leicester De Montfort Law School
Dr Simisola Akintoye
Simi is a Senior Lecturer in Law and the Data Protection Officer for the European Union Human Brain Project. Her work involves continuous and up to date research in legal and ethical compliance with privacy and data protection laws. She is interested in law and emerging technologies, privacy, ethics and responsibility.

Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility
Professor Laurence Brooks
He is Co-Investigator of the SHERPA project, local co-ordinator for the Horizon CDT (joint with the University of Nottingham), and is local PI for the forthcoming TechEthos project.

Programme Leader for Digital Technology Innovation
Dr Mayen Cunden
Mayen’s research is at the interface of ethics and technology with particular focus on the social implications of IT enabled technologies. His work combines insights from business and information systems and helps to tackle some of the grand societal challenges of sustainable development. Mayen leads the CCSR-in-Africa initiative for partnership development and collaboration.

Managing Director of ORBIT
Mr Martin de Heaver
Martin is Director of ORBIT, with a background in systems engineering (air traffic control, railway systems, congestion charging/low emissions zones, airport systems, parking), and the commercialization of ICT research (computer vision, IOT, predictive analytics). Formerly a member of the Parliamentary IT committee (PITCOM), and a long-standing member of the Pilgrims Society.

Senior Research Fellow
Prof. Malcolm Fisk
Malcolm carries an international reputation in the area of digital health and older age. With a background that includes community activism, local government, the electronics industry and private sector research; he champions technological innovation in a way that endeavours to empower consumers and service users.

Reader in Computing and Social Responsibility
Dr Catherine Flick
Dr Flick is a technology ethicist with specific interests in emerging technologies and video games. She is an expert in the ethics of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, informed consent in technology, ethics in and of video games, and responsible research and innovation.

Online Coordinator
Mr Paul Keene
Paul has more than 18 years of experience in graphic and web design in e-commerce and institutional contexts. He has created online work for clients such as EMI Music and Universal Studios as well as websites for groups such as the Big Innovation Centre and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.

Senior Lecturer in Information Systems
Dr Caroline Khene
Dr Caroline Khene’s research interests are in ICT4D, digital citizen engagement, open data governance, and process mining in the public sector. She is currently Director and Principal Investigator of the MobiSAM and MobiSAfAIDS projects on digital citizen engagement in basic service delivery and sexual reproductive health services in developing countries.

Reader in IT Management
Dr Neil McBride
Neil is a system thinker and ethicist. His work has covered systems theory, qualitative research in information systems, posthumanism and IT service management. His ethical interests include robotics, driverless cars, big data, smart cities and facial recognition.

Senior Research Fellow
Dr Achim Rosemann
Achim is the co-leader and coordinator of the social science programme of the Human Brain Project’s work package on bio-based AI and neurorobotics applications. He is also the initiator of the AI Global Governance Group.

Director, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
Professor Bernd Stahl
He serves as Ethics Director and local PI of the Human Brain Project, coordinator of SHERPA and Co-Principal Investigator of the ORBIT project.

Associate Professor Research & Teaching in Information Systems
Dr Kutoma Wakunuma
Dr Wakunuma’s research interests are in Information Communication Technologies for Development, Responsible Innovation, Gender, Computing Ethics, Emerging Technologies and the UN’s SDGs. She is DMU PI on the RRING (Responsible Research and Innovation Networked Globally) project and is Co-PI on the Digital Innovations for Transitioning to a Circular plastic Economy (DITCh Plastic) project. Dr Wakunuma is also Deputy Subject Group Leader IS Group and Programme Leader for MSc Computing.

Oluyinka Oyeniji
I have a background in Law having practised for almost two decades in Nigeria. I have also been admitted as a Barrister in the United Kingdom. My interest in Technology Law expanded into the Governance of Emerging Technologies. The geometric expansion of the possibilities associated with the deployment of Artificial Intelligence in pursuit of the Fourth Industrial revolution (especially for Developing Countries and the global south) spurred me to studying Science Technology Policy at the Science and Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex Business School. It is an interesting challenge and rare privilege to research into Ethics of Neuroscience in the Human Brain Project of DMU to critically ascertain challenges of reproducibility for Africa. As much as we will love for innovations to develop and expand for technology, building national innovation systems is a necessary place to start while framing an inclusive, expansive, immersive ethical framework with considerations for cultural background will ensure enforceable standards.

Vincent Bryce
Mature PhD student at the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training in the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham and DMU and senior HR project manager at the University of Nottingham. My research interests are RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation) and HRIS (Human Resources Information Systems). I am also an experienced Equality and Diversity practitioner. I am currently developing mixed methods research into the business case for Responsible Research and Innovation using meta-review of published RRI case studies and case studies of HR/HRIS aspects of RRI.

Paschal Ochang
Paschal is a PhD student and the Postgraduate Representative of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility. He is also a member of the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) Policy Development Working Group and the Internet Society. His research interests include network privacy and security, multimedia network protocols and architectures, information system ethics and data governance. His current research focuses on brain data governance with a particular focal lens on how cultural, legal and ethical principles influence brain data governance.

LECTURER IN INFORMATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
Dr. Mahmoud Elbasir
Dr, Mahmoud Elbasir has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, seven of them in Information System Management and Computer Science, at De Montfort University, UK. Among his research interest includes E-service (e.g. E-payment system, e-learning), Mobile learning, Qualitative methodology, and Grounded theory, with main goal of research is to improve the service, effectiveness, efficiency, and teaching style. Dr. Elbasir is currently teaching different modules, and he is the Module Leader for Systems Building: Methods (CTEC3303) and Systems Building Management IMAT3424 .
PhD Students
Abdulkarim Mohammed Alsamaani
Abdulqadir Abdi Diriye
Abigail Silas Udoma
Bakari Ally Mashaka
Deng Malok
Eirini Kalaitzopoulou
Malgorzata Alicja Plotka
Michelle Louise Brown
Oyeniji, Oluyinka Abiodun
Oluwaseun Harold Kolawole
Rachel Catherine Harris
Ruairi Blake
Tonii Leach
Vincent Bryce
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Anne Chartier
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Don Gotterbarn
Efpraxia Zamani
Kiyoshi Murata
Mark Coeckelbergh
Mary Clarkson
Mary Prior
Mayen Cunden
Mick Phythian
Mike Leigh
Mohamed Begg
Richard Howley
Roxana Firth
Stephen Rainey
Steve McRobb
Terrell Ward Bynum
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Tyr Fothergill
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