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ProTecThem2.0

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 researcher

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

Professor

Research interests

  • AI Ethics 
  • Algorithms in Justice Systems
  • Trustworthy and Responsible AI
Connect with Pamela

Email: P.Ugwudike@soton.ac.uk

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: sem03@soton.ac.uk

Professor Silke Roth

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

  • activism and volunteering
  • humanitarianism 
  • political participation
Connect with Silke

Email: Silke.Roth@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Institute of Criminal Justice Research

We are an interdisciplinary research hub that explores and develops the relationships between criminal justice scholarship, research, policy, and practice.

Agents, Interaction and Complexity

We research the science and engineering of complex areas. We focus on areas including human-machine teams and human-in-the-loop interaction.

Research outputs

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
DOI: 10.1145/3511597
Type: article
A Response to Draft Online Safety Bill
Sarvapali Ramchurn, Stuart Middleton, Derek McAuley, Helena Webb, Richard Hyde & Justyna Lisinska, 2021
DOI: 10.18742/pub01-060
Type: report
Use of Artificial Intelligence to support cybercrime research
Stuart Middleton, 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74837-1
Type: bookChapter