Research project

ProTecThem2.0

Research groups:

Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Lead researchers:

Professor Pamela Ugwudike
Other researchers:

Dr Stuart Middleton,

Professor Silke Roth
Research funder:

ESRC
Status:

Active

Project overview

ProTechThem2.0 is an ESRC-funded project that integrates insights and expertise from criminology and computer sciences to enable better targeted awareness-raising activities and to improve the tools we currently have to promote ethical social media platform algorithms and prevent or mitigate the negative impacts of sharenting practices. Dr Pamela Ugwudike is leading the project.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Pamela Ugwudike LLB (Hons), MA, PhD, FHEA

Professor

Research interests

AI Ethics
Algorithms in Justice Systems
Trustworthy and Responsible AI

Connect with Pamela

Email: P.Ugwudike@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Stuart Middleton

Associate Professor

Research interests

Natural Language Processing
Human-in-the-loop NLP: Active Learning, Adversarial Training, Rationale-based Learning, Interactive Sense Making
Information Extraction: Few/Zero Shot Learning, Graph-based Models, Behaviour Classification, Geoparsing/Location Extraction, Event Extraction, Argument Mining

Connect with Stuart

Email: sem03@soton.ac.uk

Professor Silke Roth

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

activism and volunteering
humanitarianism
political participation

Connect with Silke

Email: Silke.Roth@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

AI for defence: readiness, resilience and mental health

Stuart E. Middleton, Alec Banks, Daniel Leightley, Patrick Hinton, Sarah Ashbridge, Dan Adler, Maria Liakata, Anahid Basiri & Brant Chee, 2024, RUSI Journal, 169, 52 - 62

DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2024.2424780

Type: article

Do prompt positions really matter?

Junyu Mao, Stuart E. Middleton & Mahesan Niranjan, 2024

Type: conference

Rationale-based learning using self-supervised narrative events for text summarisation of interactive digital narratives

Ashwathy T. Revi, Stuart E. Middleton & David E. Millard, 2024

Type: conference

Extraction and summarization of suicidal ideation evidence in social media content using large language models

Gyanendro Loitongbam, Junyu Mao, Rudra Mutalik & Stuart E. Middleton, 2024

Type: conference

ConversationMoC: encoding conversational dynamics using multiplex network for identifying moment of change in mood and mental health classification