Dr Terrie Lynn Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Work-Learning at the University of Stirling. Her research focuses on the politics and ethics of digital technologies. She explores the social implications of how labour is being re-distributed between people and their digital co-workers and implications for workers, workplaces, and those who influence or govern professional practice. Her research critically examines how AI and advanced data analytics are implicated in the growing datafication of work, the rise of assisted and automated professional decisions, and new forms of work-related monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance. Terrie Lynn studies how workers and work organizations understand changes to their expertise, professional judgement, accountability, and leadership capacities as they engage with AI-data platforms. This research informs opportunities for critical public pedagogies, debate, and advocacy which can help to usefully shift current narratives.
Dr Diana Miranda is a Senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Stirling. Her research interests include surveillance and technology with a focus on the connection between criminalisation and citizenship. Diana’s work sits at the intersection of criminological and sociological research, exploring emerging biometric and data driven technologies. In her research projects she analyses the implications of deploying technologies in different criminal justice and security settings. She works across domains such as criminal investigation, predictive policing, smart cities, security of borders, and prisons. Dr Diana Miranda is particularly interested in understanding the impact of surveillance on our bodies and identities through processes of technologically mediated suspicion.
Sarah Grayston is the Learning Technologies Manager at Queen Margaret University (QMU). She has a degree in Multimedia Systems (Napier University). Sarah’s interest in the application and use of technologies across an range of educational contexts includes work in Ecuador to develop and implement a learning site for teachers, the Wearable Technology Research group (University of Wales), learning technologist (Motherwell College), and several roles within the digital learning team at the University of Stirling. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Education at the University of Stirling, Digital Surveillance in Higher Education.
Nuria Fraile-Diaz holds a degree in Philosophy and Classics from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, specialising in aesthetics and feminist theory. Her career was greatly shaped by her MSc in Digital Education (University of Edinburgh). Driven by curiosity, she also pursued studies in Law in Scotland. Passionate about learning and technologies that empower learners, Nuria is an avid collector of information and facts. She is also the first autistic woman to graduate from the Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation Programme in Scotland. Currently, Nuria works as the Digital Learning & Development Manager at The Data Lab. Her expertise spans Instructional and Learning Design, Learning Design & Technology, Digital Education, Digital Accessibility, Neurodivergent Mentorship, and advocacy for autistic and ADHD individuals, among other hidden disabilities.
Kerry Abercrombie is the Curriculum Development Officer – Digital Learning at Falkirk Council. With a background in secondary Media and English teaching Kerry is passionate about storytelling in a wide variety of formats and worked with speculative fiction as a vehicle to examine the complex entanglements between technology and working lives during her MSc in Education Leadership at the University of Stirling. She is interested in how emerging and existing use of digital technologies shape educational practices, creativity, and professional learning, and how these impact the evolving relationship between technology and pedagogy.