Dr Pamela Ugwudike
Associate Professor in Criminology, Director of Research
Dr Pamela Ugwudike is an Associate Professor of Criminology, a Criminal Justice Specialist, a Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, where she is undertaking research on the topic - “A Multidisciplinary Study of Predictive Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Criminal Justice System”.
Dr Ugwudike is also a member of the Alan Turing Institute’s Fairness, Transparency, and Privacy Interest Group. She has particular interest in the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, with a focus on the data-driven technologies (such as risk prediction algorithms and online social networking algorithms) that structure knowledge production and inform criminal justice policy.
Dr Ugwudike is currently working on an ESRC project exploring the risks and harms of ‘sharenting’ on social media and how to develop AI-driven remedial strategies (2021-2023). She has led a number of multidisciplinary projects on: the ethics of predictive policing algorithms (funded by the Alan Turing Institute 2019-2021); the nexus of online epistemic domination and digital exclusion (funded by the Web Science Institute 2019-2020); the digitisation of technologies for evaluating criminal justice practice (funded by Cherish Digital Economy/EPSRC 2016-2017); and the digitisation of an evaluation package for assessing youth justice practice (funded by the ESRC IAA 2018-19).
Dr Ugwudike is also a co-Editor-in-Chief of Criminology and Criminal Justice Journal (the flagship Journal of the British Society of Criminology) and she currently sits on the Editorial Board of the following Journals: The British Journal of Criminology; Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy; and the European Journal of Probation. She is also a member of the advisory group for Ada Lovelace Institute's legal review of the governance of biometric data in the UK; the Howard League for Penal Reform’s Research Advisory Group; The Youth Justice Board’s Academic Liaison Network; and an alumna of the Welsh Crucible for Future Research Leaders.
Email: p.ugwudike@soton.ac.uk
Twitter: @PamelaUgwudike