STEM Faculty

Aisling Third

Research Fellow

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Latest news

KMi at the Palace of Westminster: Exploring Blockchain for Society…

12 Dec 2025

On 3rd December, KMi’s Aisling Third was invited to take part in an International Roundtable on Blockchain and Digital Assets…

Breaking barriers: Teresa Sides explores AI adoption in primary care

20 Nov 2025

Teresa Sides has successfully defended her PhD viva on 6th November 2025. Her thesis, “Understanding the Barriers to AI Adoption…

After AI?

31 Oct 2025

On Friday, October 17th, the Shifting Power team hosted the second “After AI?” symposium”. This interdisciplinary and varied event brought…

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Latest publications

Displaying 10 of 58 publications

Third, A. and Domingue, J., 2026, ‘Life Events as a basis for PKG Agent Friendly Registries’, in Trust, Autonomy and Accountability in PKG-Based Agentic AI at the European Semantic Web Conference, 10-14 May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110320/.
Kwarteng, J., Third, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Tarrant, D. and Domingue, J., 2026, ‘SAGE-RAI: Design Patterns for Transparent RAG Systems’, in The ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW '26), 13-17 Apr 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates., https://oro.open.ac.uk/108348/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Kwarteng, J., Third, A., Domingue, J. and Tarrant, D., 2026, ‘Learning with Responsible AI: Perceptions and Experiences of Learners in Online Professional Education’, in 20th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2026), 2-4 Mar 2026, Valencia, Spain., https://oro.open.ac.uk/109149/.
Willis, A. and Third, A., 2026, ‘AMATI at BEA 2026 Shared Task 2: Automatic Short Answer Grading with Inductive Logic Programming and a Large Language Model’, in Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026), 3-4 Jul 2026, San Diego, California, United States., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110741/.
Sides, T., Kbaier, D., Farrell, T. and Third, A., 2025, ‘Bridging trust gaps: Stakeholder perspectives on AI adoption in the United Kingdom NHS primary care’, Digital Health, 11, https://oro.open.ac.uk/107412/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Third, A. and Domingue, J., 2024, ‘Blockchain-based decentralised micro-accreditation for lifelong learning’, Interactive Learning Environments, 33(3), pp. 2201–2215., https://oro.open.ac.uk/100059/.
Brown, V., Larasati, R., Third, A. and Farrell, T., 2024, ‘A Qualitative Study on Cultural Hegemony and the Impacts of AI’, in AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-24), 21-23 Oct 2024, San Jose, CA, USA., https://oro.open.ac.uk/99264/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Domingue, J., Third, A., Tarrant, D. and Pieroni, T., 2024, ‘Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI’, in 20th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2024), 10-13 Jun 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece., https://oro.open.ac.uk/99051/.
Ibáñez, L., Domingue, J., Kirrane, S., Seneviratne, O., Third, A. and Vidal, M., 2023, ‘Trust, Accountability, and Autonomy in Knowledge Graph-Based AI for Self-Determination’, Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, 1(1), 9:1-9:32., https://oro.open.ac.uk/94805/.
Kwarteng, J., Farrell, T., Third, A. and Fernandez, M., 2023, ‘Annotators’ Perspectives: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Interpreting Misogynoir’, in ASONAM 2023: The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 6-9 Nov 2023, Kusadasi, Turkey., https://oro.open.ac.uk/93975/.

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