Professor Richard Owen
PhD, BSc
Current positions
Professor in Innovation Management
School of Management - Business School
Contact
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Research interests
I am interested in the power of innovation and techno-visionary science to create futures in profound and uncertain ways, how we can engage as a society with those futures and how we can take responsibility for them. I research the politics, risks, ethics and governance of innovation and emerging technologies in society, from big data in financial services and machine learning to planetary climate engineering. My research interests sit at the intersection of innovation governance and science and technology studies as a critical, interdisciplinary scholar, working closely with colleagues across science and engineering.
I am a member of the ESRC Centre for Socio-Digital Futures.
I am also Unit Director for Undergraduate Dissertations.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
REPHRAIN: National Research centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online (Phase II)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Management - Business SchoolDates
01/09/2024 to 31/03/2025
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/05/2022 to 30/04/2027
What is the best relationship between humans and AI? Investigating researcher perceptions of AI through immersive experience
Principal Investigator
Description
The key challenge for this project is to explore, through immersive experience, perceptions of the best possible relationship between humans and AI by researchers drawn from different disciplines across the…Managing organisational unit
School of Management - Business SchoolDates
01/01/2021 to 31/07/2021
REPHRAIN: REsearch centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial INfluence online
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The REsearch centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial INfluence online (REPHRAIN) will bring together the UK's substantial academic, industry, policy and third sector capabilities to address the current tensions…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/10/2020 to 31/08/2024
EPSRC Cybersecurity Centre for Doctoral Training (Trust, Identity and Privacy at Scale)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Management - Business SchoolDates
01/04/2019 to 30/09/2027
Thesis supervisions
Aesthetic Materialism
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
23/01/2024Beyond individual responsibility – towards a relational understanding of financial resilience through participatory research and design
Journal of Social Policy
‘We have opened a can of worms’: using collaborative ethnography to advance responsible artificial intelligence innovation
Journal of Responsible Innovation
How and why psychologists should respond to the harms associated with generative AI
Communications Psychology
Responsible innovation scholarship: normative, empirical, theoretical, and engaged
Journal of Responsible Innovation
Addressing contingency in algorithmic (mis)information classification
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT)
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