1. 2023

2. Advising Government Department on Metaverse technology

   McStay, A. (Consultant)

   2023 → …

   Activity: Consultancy

3. Advising/collaboration with metaphysic.ai

   McStay, A. (Consultant)

   2023 → …

   Activity: Consultancy

4. Digital Discussion on AI for Plaid Cymru and Welsh Government

   McStay, A. (Interviewee)

   2023

   Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk

5. Panel membership for AHRC (BRAID Scoping to Embed Responsible AI)

   McStay, A. (Consultant)

   2023

   Activity: Consultancy

6. 2022

7. 'Addressing false information online via provision of authoritative information: Why dialling down emotion is part of the answer', Submission to UK Parliament Online Harms and Disinformation Sub-Committee Inquiry into Misinformation and Trusted Voices, September 2022

   Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)

   14 Sept 2022 → 14 Oct 2022

   Activity: Other

8. BU-IIA Funded project: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics & Policing in North Wales: Establishing Citizens’ Perspectives

   Loftus, B. (Contributor), Bakir, V. (Contributor), McStay, A. (Contributor) & Feilzer, M. (Contributor)

   1 Apr 2022 → 31 Mar 2023

   Activity: Other

9. Advising Welsh Government on AI Ethics

   McStay, A. (Contributor)

   2022 → …

   Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel

10. Advisory Board of PATH-AI

    McStay, A. (Contributor)

    2022 → …

    Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

11. Information Commissioners Office (External organisation)

    McStay, A. (Chair)

    2022 → …

    Activity: Membership › Membership of board

12. Keynote talk on data ethics for Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS): AI Ethics and Emotion Recognition

    McStay, A. (Speaker)

    2022

    Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

13. Replika in the Metaverse

    McStay, A. (Speaker)

    2022

    Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

14. W3C (External organisation)

    McStay, A. (Chair)

    2022 → …

    Activity: Membership › Membership of board

15. 2021

16. Aspen Institute/Facebook: Chatham House invite to advise on ‘Empathic Research’

    McStay, A. (Contributor)

    Nov 2021

    Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel

17. Roundtables on DCMS Data Reform Consultation

    McStay, A. (Contributor)

    Nov 2021

    Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel

18. Digital Futures Commission

    McStay, A. (Contributor)

    Oct 2021

    Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel

19. Ada Lovelace/RCA workshop

    McStay, A. (Speaker)

    Jun 2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course

20. Emotional AI and Empathic Technologies: Implications of an Ontology of Mediated Emotion, Data Justice Conference 2021

    Bakir, V. (Speaker) & McStay, A. (Speaker)

    14 May 2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference

21. Empathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation

    Bakir, V. (Speaker) & McStay, A. (Speaker)

    23 Apr 2021 → 28 Apr 2021

    Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

22. Taking Back Control of Our Personal Data: An ethical impact assessment of personal data storage apps

    Bakir, V. (Consultant) & McStay, A. (Consultant)

    21 Jan 2021

    Activity: Consultancy

23. North Wales Police AI Governance Group

    McStay, A. (Contributor)

    2021 → 2022

    Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel

24. 2020
25. Submission to Inquiry on Impact of Social Media on Elections and Electoral Administration - Victoria Parliament, Australia - plus resulting influence

    Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)

    24 Aug 2020 → 20 Sept 2021

    Activity: Other

26. Virtual Mind the PR Gap 2020: AI, creativity and fake news in a post Covid-19 world.

    Bakir, V. (Speaker) & McStay, A. (Speaker)

    9 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference

27. AGAINST OPACITY, OUTRAGE & DECEPTION: Towards an ethical code of conduct for transparent, explainable, civil & informative digital political campaigns. Evidence submitted to House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies.

    Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)

    29 Jun 2020

    Activity: Other

28. Profiling & Targeting Emotion in Digital Political Campaigns.

    Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)

    20 Apr 2020

    Activity: Other

29. Older People & Digital Literacy

    Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)

    10 Apr 2020

    Activity: Other

30. 2019

31. Final Report - Emotional AI - Japan and UK. Final Report on a Conversation between cultures

    Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)

    1 Nov 2019

    Activity: Other

32. Workshop on emotional AI

    Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Organiser)

    9 Sept 2019

    Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

33. CULTURE CHANGE: Incentivise political campaigners to run civil and informative election campaigns

    Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)

    2 Aug 2019

    Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

34. Parliamentary submission: Datafied Bearbaiting and Emotional AI: Anticipating the Quantified Jeremy Kyle Show. Submission to DCMS Committee Inquiry into Reality TV

    Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)

    1 Jun 2019 → 1 Sept 2019

    Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation

35. Citation in EU Commissioned study: Disinformation and propaganda – impact on the functioning of the rule of law in the EU and its Member States

    McStay, A. (Contributor) & Bakir, V. (Contributor)

    28 Feb 2019

    Activity: Other

36. 2018

37. Regulating Digital Campaigning: What is to be Done?

    Bakir, V. (Participant) & McStay, A. (Participant)

    29 Nov 2018

    Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar

38. United International College Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University

    McStay, A. (Reviewer) & Bakir, V. (Reviewer)

    16 Nov 2018

    Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee

39. Opinion Forming in the Digital Age: Fake News, Echo Chambers and Populism - Key Themes, Concerns & Recommendations for European Research and Innovation

    Bakir, V. (Consultant) & McStay, A. (Consultant)

    1 Feb 2018 → 25 Oct 2018

    Activity: Consultancy

40. 2017

41. Fake News & Digital Advertising

    Bakir, V. (Speaker) & McStay, A. (Speaker)

    25 Apr 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

42. Written MPC submissions to UK Fake News Parliamentary Inquiry and wider public discourse

    Bakir, V. (Consultant) & McStay, A. (Consultant)

    1 Apr 2017 → 29 Nov 2017

    Activity: Consultancy

43. Veillance

    Jein, G. (Speaker), McStay, A. (Speaker), Bakir, V. (Speaker), Edwards, C. (Speaker) & Devlin, R. (Speaker)

    24 Feb 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

44. Veillance

    Jein, G. (Host), Devlin, R. (Organiser), McStay, A. (Member), Bakir, V. (Member), Dickinson, A. (Contributor), Fluekiger, M. (Contributor) & Edwards, C. (Contributor)

    24 Feb 2017 → 12 Mar 2017

    Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

45. 2016

46. Membership of AHRC peer review college

    McStay, A. (Member)

    18 Nov 2016

    Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee