Browsing by Author "Jirotka, Marina"

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    Built in, not bolted on: Responsible Innovation in UK Centres for Doctoral Training - the new normal
    (Emerald, 2022) Ten Holter, Carolyn; Stahl, Bernd Carsten; Jirotka, Marina
    During the last decade, responsible innovation (RI) has become increasingly embedded within the EU and UK research context, appearing with greater frequency in funding calls and policy spaces. As part of this embedding, in its 2018 funding call for Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) required RI training to be included in the programme for all doctoral students. The research detailed here engaged with Directors of CDTs during the first year of their new Centres to form a snapshot view of the nature and type of training that was being incorporated, and how this might affect the wider organization – in this case the university. Using an organizational learning lens, this paper empirically examines the work-in-progress of the RI training in CDTs to assess how new RI understandings are being created, retained, and transferred within the CDTs, and questions whether this process represents a programme of ‘institutionalisation’. The paper concludes that at present, institutionalisation is highly variegated, with greater organizational change required in order to truly embed RI mindsets.
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    Digital Wildfires? Propagation, Verification, Regulation and Responsible Innovation
    (ACM, 2016-04) Webb, Helena; Burnap, Peter; Procter, Rob; Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-; Williams, Matthew; Houseley, William; Edwards, Adam; Jirotka, Marina
    Social media platforms provide an increasingly popular means for individuals to share content online. Whilst this produces undoubted societal benefits, the ability for content to be spontaneously posted and re-posted creates an ideal environment for rumour and false/malicious information to spread rapidly. When this occurs it can cause significant harms and can be characterised as a ‘digital wildfire’. In this paper we demonstrate that the propagation and regulation of digital wildfires form important topics for research and conduct an overview of existing work in this area. We outline the relevance of a range of work from the computational and social sciences, including a series of insights into the propagation of rumour and false/malicious information. We argue that significant research gaps remain - for instance there is an absence of systematic studies on the effects of digital wildfires and there is a need to combine empirical research with a consideration of how the responsible governance of social media can be determined. We propose an agenda for research that establishes a methodology to explore in full the propagation and regulation of unverified content on social media. This agenda promotes high quality interdisciplinary research that will also inform policy debates.
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    From collaborative to institutional reflexivity: calibrating responsibility in the funding process
    (Oxford University Press, 2020) Grimpe, Barbara; Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-; ten Holter, Carolyn; Inglesant, Philip; Eden, Grace; Patel, Menisha; Jirotka, Marina
    Science-policy organisations are expected to be reflexive of their political influence on research and society. In this long-standing discourse on institutional reflexivity, formal organisations have largely been considered as a whole, and from a structural, or systemic perspective, whereas much less is known about everyday organisational practices; how individual organisational members reflect on and act upon their own as well as their organisation’s limits of knowledge and pre-commitments, if at all. We address this gap through an analysis of qualitative interviews with one national funding institution’s staff overseeing funding for research into information and communication technologies (ICT). We develop a bridging concept between individual and institutional reflexivity, which we call ‘collaborative reflexivity’. Through collaborative reflexive processes, individual employees contribute to the entire organisation’s institutional reflexivity. Our findings help to better understand ‘responsible’ behaviour in funding processes, as part of the growing international movement of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).
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    The need for responsible technology
    (Elsevier, 2020-07-01) Jirotka, Marina; Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-
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    Responsible Research and Innovation in the Digital Age
    (ACM, 2017-04-24) Jirotka, Marina; Grimpe, Barbara; Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-; Hartswood, Mark; Eden, Grace