Aunam Quyoum

Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Glasgow

Session: Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online (PRIME), AI and Racial Justice (Plenary)

Aunam is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow, working on the UKRI-funded project 'Protecting Minoritised Ethnic Communities Online' (PRIME). She is co-lead on a work package for PRIME which seeks to bring together stakeholders such as community organisations, citizens, researchers and policy leads across England and Scotland, to exchange knowledge and co-design solutions to ethnicity related bias and digital discrimination in AI and digital services. In 2020, Aunam co-led on an inquiry into algorithmic decision making in children’s social care for the Behavioural Insights Unit at the Department for Education, England. Aunam holds a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield. Her research experience and interests align to themes of social justice and participatory methodologies.