Professor Andrew McStay
Professor in Technology & Society
Affiliations
Contact info
Name: Andrew McStay
Position: Professor of Technology & Society
Email: mcstay@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1248 382740
- 2023
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Advising Government Department on Metaverse technology
McStay, A. (Consultant)
2023 → …Activity: Consultancy
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Digital Discussion on AI for Plaid Cymru and Welsh Government
McStay, A. (Interviewee)
2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
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Panel membership for AHRC (BRAID Scoping to Embed Responsible AI)
McStay, A. (Consultant)
2023Activity: Consultancy
- 2022
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'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 2022Activity: Other
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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 2023Activity: Other
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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
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Advisory Board of PATH-AI
McStay, A. (Contributor)
2022 → …Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Information Commissioners Office (External organisation)
McStay, A. (Chair)
2022 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of board
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Keynote talk on data ethics for Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS): AI Ethics and Emotion Recognition
McStay, A. (Speaker)
2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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- 2021
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Aspen Institute/Facebook: Chatham House invite to advise on ‘Empathic Research’
McStay, A. (Contributor)
Nov 2021Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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Roundtables on DCMS Data Reform Consultation
McStay, A. (Contributor)
Nov 2021Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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Digital Futures Commission
McStay, A. (Contributor)
Oct 2021Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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Ada Lovelace/RCA workshop
McStay, A. (Speaker)
Jun 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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Emotional AI and Empathic Technologies: Implications of an Ontology of Mediated Emotion, Data Justice Conference 2021
Bakir, V. (Speaker) & McStay, A. (Speaker)
14 May 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Empathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation
Bakir, V. (Speaker) & McStay, A. (Speaker)
23 Apr 2021 → 28 Apr 2021Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Taking Back Control of Our Personal Data: An ethical impact assessment of personal data storage apps
Bakir, V. (Consultant) & McStay, A. (Consultant)
21 Jan 2021Activity: Consultancy
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North Wales Police AI Governance Group
McStay, A. (Contributor)
2021 → 2022Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
- 2020
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 2021Activity: Other
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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 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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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 2020Activity: Other
Profiling & Targeting Emotion in Digital Political Campaigns.
Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)
20 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Older People & Digital Literacy
Bakir, V. (Contributor) & McStay, A. (Contributor)
10 Apr 2020Activity: Other