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

   Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)

   9 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020

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

2. '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

   Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

   14 Sept 2022 → 14 Oct 2022

   Activity: Other

3. 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.

   Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

   29 Jun 2020

   Activity: Other

4. Ada Lovelace/RCA workshop

   Andrew McStay (Speaker)

   Jun 2021

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

5. Advising Government Department on Metaverse technology

   Andrew McStay (Consultant)

   2023 → …

   Activity: Consultancy

6. Advising Welsh Government on AI Ethics

   Andrew McStay (Contributor)

   2022 → …

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

7. Advising/collaboration with metaphysic.ai

   Andrew McStay (Consultant)

   2023 → …

   Activity: Consultancy

8. Advisory Board of PATH-AI

   Andrew McStay (Contributor)

   2022 → …

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

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

   Andrew McStay (Contributor)

   Nov 2021

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

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

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    2 Aug 2019

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

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

    Andrew McStay (Contributor) & Vian Bakir (Contributor)

    28 Feb 2019

    Activity: Other

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

    Andrew McStay (Interviewee)

    2023

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

13. Digital Futures Commission

    Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    Oct 2021

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

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

    Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)

    14 May 2021

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

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

    Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)

    23 Apr 2021 → 28 Apr 2021

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

16. Fake News & Digital Advertising

    Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)

    25 Apr 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

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

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    1 Nov 2019

    Activity: Other

18. Information Commissioners Office (External organisation)

    Andrew McStay (Chair)

    2022 → …

    Activity: Membership › Membership of board

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

    Andrew McStay (Speaker)

    2022

    Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

20. Membership of AHRC peer review college

    Andrew McStay (Member)

    18 Nov 2016

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

21. North Wales Police AI Governance Group

    Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    2021 → 2022

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

22. Older People & Digital Literacy

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    10 Apr 2020

    Activity: Other

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

    Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)

    1 Feb 2018 → 25 Oct 2018

    Activity: Consultancy

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

    Andrew McStay (Consultant)

    2023

    Activity: Consultancy

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

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    1 Jun 2019 → 1 Sept 2019

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

26. Profiling & Targeting Emotion in Digital Political Campaigns.

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    20 Apr 2020

    Activity: Other

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

    Vian Bakir (Participant) & Andrew McStay (Participant)

    29 Nov 2018

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

28. Replika in the Metaverse

    Andrew McStay (Speaker)

    2022

    Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

29. Roundtables on DCMS Data Reform Consultation

    Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    Nov 2021

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

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

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)

    24 Aug 2020 → 20 Sept 2021

    Activity: Other

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

    Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)

    21 Jan 2021

    Activity: Consultancy

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

    Andrew McStay (Reviewer) & Vian Bakir (Reviewer)

    16 Nov 2018

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

33. Veillance

    Gillian Jein (Speaker), Andrew McStay (Speaker), Vian Bakir (Speaker), Carwyn Edwards (Speaker) & Ronan Devlin (Speaker)

    24 Feb 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

34. Veillance

    Gillian Jein (Host), Ronan Devlin (Organiser), Andrew McStay (Member), Vian Bakir (Member), Ant Dickinson (Contributor), Michael Fluekiger (Contributor) & Carwyn Edwards (Contributor)

    24 Feb 2017 → 12 Mar 2017

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

35. W3C (External organisation)

    Andrew McStay (Chair)

    2022 → …

    Activity: Membership › Membership of board

36. Workshop on emotional AI

    Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Organiser)

    9 Sept 2019

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

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

    Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)

    1 Apr 2017 → 29 Nov 2017

    Activity: Consultancy