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Mustafa Ali (Convenor)
Exploring decoloniality in terms of the political {economy, ecology and theology} of computing and ICT.
Dr Syed Mustafa Ali is Lecturer and Convenor of the Critical Information Studies (CIS) research group in the School of Computing and Communications at The Open University. His transdisciplinary research focuses on developing a hermeneutic framework grounded in Heideggerian phenomenology, critical race theory, and postcolonial/decolonial thought, and using this framework to explore how race, religion, politics, and ethics are ‘entangled’ with various technological (more specifically, ICT) phenomena. In this connection, he has published work in the areas of Decolonial Computing and Algorithmic Racism, interrogating Trans-/Posthumanism, the discourse of ‘Big Data’ and internet governance.
David Chapman
Dr David Chapman retired in 2020 and is now an Honorary Associate of the Open University (formerly Senior Lecturer). He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was a design engineer working on optical fibre communication systems with Plessey Telecommunications before joining the Open University in 1986, where he completed a PhD in Optical Fibre Networks and contributed material on telecommunications and ICT to a wide range of courses. Having served as Director of the ICT Programme Committee and Head of the ICT Department, his more recent research interests are in semiotic and narrative-based approaches to information as reported in his Intropy blog.
Ray Corrigan
Ray Corrigan is a Senior Lecturer in technology at the Open University. He has worked with the UK parliament, European Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organisation, NGOs and the Korean Copyright Commission on technology, privacy, security, surveillance, education, intellectual property and its economics. He is the author of 'Digital Decision Making: Back to the Future' [Springer-Verlag, 2007] and shares random thoughts on law, the Internet and society at http://b2fxxx.blogspot.com/ and https://twitter.com/raycorrigan. Research interests include digital rights, interacting developments in law and technology and their wider effects on society, security, public understanding of technology and its regulation.
Brent Cunningham
Web technologist with a critical take
Brent Cunningham works in web development, currently in the public sector, with previous roles including as a learning technologist in higher education. He is a part-time Associate Lecturer at The Open University in web technology modules. He brings a socio-cultural perspective to digital technologies, broadly focused on political and ethical concerns. Past projects have involved research in ‘open-source’ e-learning, digital privacy, and technology in activism. Current interests include ecological issues around computing and an ongoing aspiration to promote wider critical digital debate.
Chris Douce
Mark Hall
Trying to improve representation in digital archives.
Dr Mark Hall is a Lecturer in the School of Computing & Communications at the Open University. His background is in interactive information retrieval, natural language processing, and the digital humanities. His research focuses on helping users explore large data-sets that they are unfamiliar with or where the users lack the expertise to know what they could find and how to find it. Recently he has also developed an interest in improving methodological clarity, questions around the canon, and biases in the Digital Humanities. As part of this he is involved in the Under the Surface project which aims to increase the visibility of those authors who have for various reasons (gender, religion, culture, ...) been overlooked in the Digital Humanities.
Tony Hirst
Dr Tony Hirst is Senior Lecturer in Telematics at the Open University. With a background in electronics and artificial intelligence, he has authored on OU courses ranging from robotics to information skills and has research expertise in data science.
Soraya Kouadri
Magnus Ramage
Dr Magnus Ramage is a Senior Lecturer in information systems at the Open University. He has a background in information systems, with a PhD from Lancaster University in computer-supported cooperative work evaluation. His research interests include the lives and work of the key systems thinkers and the nature of information across multiple disciplines. He is co-author of the book Systems Thinkers, a guide to the major thinkers in the field of systems thinking, published in 2009 by Springer. With David Chapman, he was editor of a book on the nature of information across a range of disciplines, Perspectives on Information, published in 2011 by Routledge. He was formerly editor-in-chief of the journal Kybernetes.
Jill Shaw
Jill Shaw is a staff tutor in the School of Computing and Communications at The Open University. With over 20 years experience working in Technology and Project Management, and 15 years as an Associate Lecturer, Jill has research interests in investigating support for under represented groups, particularly in sport and education.
Zoe Tompkins
Zoe Tompkins is a staff tutor within the School of Computing and Communications at The Open University. With a background in IT project management consultancy, she qualified as an FE lecturer in 2002. Zoe has an interest in challenging social injustice and trained as a social worker in 2019 with the goal to advocate for those that are done to. Her current research interest is to encourage self-reflection on identity and values. She is not afraid to stick her head above the parapet to initiate difficult conversations with the aim to bring about change for those who are marginalised.
Steve Walker
Dr Steve Walker is a Senior Lecturer in Social Informatics, and Staff Tutor, in the School of Computing and Communications at the Open University. His PhD by Published Works focussed on the use of ICTs in international trade union organisation and in civil society more widely. Earlier in his career, Steve collaborated in establishing a worker co-operative providing digital communications to civil society organisations in the UK and internationally. His current research interests include learning technologies viewed as information systems, particularly in the context of open and distance learning.
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