Data Champions Search

Amaia is an MPhil Digital Humanities student and a Student Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Her research examines AI narratives and how speculative fiction and media shape our understanding of individual and collective experiences. She is interested in the construction and re-embodiment of personhood, gender and sex in the digital age, and how these states intersect with developments in reproductive technologies. Her academic focus also concerns the myths that uphold AI systems, their imagined users, and how they inform exclusionary or inclusive design processes.

My interests lie in the ideation, innovation and translation processes for healthcare technologies in resource-limited settings. I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the International Health Systems Group (IHSG), Department of Engineering, funded by the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Acquired Brain and Spine Injury.

My day-to-day job mostly involves helping postdocs and UTOs manage research funding applications and awards, through which I found myself receiving lots of questions about GDPR, research data management, and data management plans. I joined the Data Champions in order to help provide answers, and to be able to give applicants and award-holders in my department access to the network's excellent information and resources.

I am a PhD student in developmental biology in Ben Steventon’s lab. Through being part of the Data Champions network I hope to learn more about the management of data and share this understanding, as it develops, with my community. I hope to be a part of making academic research more accountable, accessible, and communal.