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Tracie Farrell

Tracie Farrell

Senior Research Fellow

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Tracie Farrell is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open University and recipient of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (Round 6). Her transdisciplinary, mixed methods research explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence on society, including impacts on people, their communities, and the wider ecosystems and societies in which they live. Before her academic career, Tracie worked for 18 years in the non-formal education sector on issues related to human rights, gender, leadership and citizenship. 

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KMi PhD student brings his research to Amazon

KMi PhD student brings his research to Amazon

07 Oct 2026

Tanay Aggarwal, a PhD student at KMi, has joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist II for a 16-week internship in…

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Open University Researchers awarded £450,000 for “Unlearning AI” 

Open University Researchers awarded £450,000 for “Unlearning AI” 

01 Apr 2026

KMi is proud to announce that Dr. Tracie Farrell and co-investigator Dr. R. Justin Hunt have been awarded funding of £450,000 to continue Dr. Farrell’s UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship on the impacts…

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Shifting Power
Shifting Power: Rethinking AI for a More Just World

Shifting Power: Rethinking AI for a More Just World

24 Mar 2026

This article is part of a special series celebrating KMi’s 30 years. Over the past three decades, KMi has been…

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Latest publications

Displaying 10 of 36 publications

  • Brown, V., Larasati, R., Kwarteng, J. and Farrell, T., 2026, ‘Understanding AI and Power: Situated Perspectives from Global North and South Practitioners’, AI & Society, 41 pp. 3981–3996., https://oro.open.ac.uk/107004/.
  • Farrell, T., 2026, ‘[Book Review] Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution By Dwaipayan Banerjee’, Princeton University Press, 2026. International Journal of Asian Studies (Early access)., https://oro.open.ac.uk/109748/.
  • Pavón Pérez, n., Farrell, T., De Kock, C., Jurasz, O., Nozza, D. and Fernandez, M., 2026, ‘Still Unsafe: What’s Holding Us Back on Online Safety for Women’, AI and Ethics, 6, https://oro.open.ac.uk/109623/.
  • 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/.
  • Pavón Pérez, n., Fernandez, M., Farrell, T., Nozza, D. and de Kock, C., 2025, ‘Foreword: Towards a Safer Web for Women - First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online’, in WWW '25: The ACM Web Conference 2025, 28 Apr - 02 May 2025, Sydney, Australia., https://oro.open.ac.uk/105018/.
  • Bayer, V., Mulholland, P., Hlosta, M., Farrell, T., Herodotou, C. and Fernandez, M., 2024, ‘Co‐creating an equality diversity and inclusion learning analytics dashboard for addressing awarding gaps in higher education’, British Journal of Educational Technology, 55(5), pp. 2058–2074., https://oro.open.ac.uk/98718/.
  • 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/.
  • Bakir, M. E., Farrell, T. and Bontcheva, K., 2024, ‘Abuse in the time of COVID-19: the effects of Brexit, gender and partisanship’, Online Information Review, 48(5), pp. 1045–1062., https://oro.open.ac.uk/96561/.
  • 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/.
  • Farrell, T. and Kouadri Mostéfaoui, S., 2023, ‘False Hopes in Automated Abuse Detection (Short Paper)’, in HHAI-WS 2023: Workshops at the Second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI), 26-27 Jun 2023, Munich, Germany., https://oro.open.ac.uk/93723/.
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