Professor Richard Owen
PhD, BSc
Current positions
Professor in Innovation Management
School of Management
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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 am interested in the politics, risks, ethics and governance of innovation and new technologies in society, from big data in financial services and planetary climate engineering to innovation for international development. My research sits at the intersection of innovation governance and science and technology studies as a critical, interdisciplinary scholar.
My current research efforts are focused within the ESRC Centre for Socio-Digital Futures, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity and the UKRI funded National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN). More recently I have been developing a particular interest in exploring arts - based methods for engendering reflexivity and dialogue around emerging technologies. I am also starting to research ideas around the ethical and governance dimensions of digital immortality and the digital afterlife, including grief bots and avatars.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
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 ManagementDates
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 30/09/2023
EPSRC Cybersecurity Centre for Doctoral Training (Trust, Identity and Privacy at Scale)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ManagementDates
01/04/2019 to 30/09/2027
8114 ESRC Empowering Citizen-Oriented Smart City Innovation in Mexico (ECOSCIM)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ManagementDates
01/02/2019 to 31/01/2022
Publications
Recent publications
07/04/2023Addressing contingency in algorithmic (mis)information classification
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT)
Framings of Innovation, Responsibility, and Responsible Innovation in China: insights from a case study undertaken with Chinese businesses
Journal of Responsible Innovation
Exploring citizen participation in smart city development in Mexico City: an institutional logics approach
Organization Studies
Addressing contingency in algorithmic misinformation detection
Addressing contingency in algorithmic misinformation detection
An unfinished journey? Reflections on a decade of responsible research and innovation
Journal of Responsible Innovation
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