Kimberley Paradis

Email: kimberley.paradis@ed.ac.uk

Research keywords: Feminist HCI, Queer Design, Community-Based NLP, Participatory Design

Personal website: https://kimberleyparadis.github.io/

Bio:

Kimberley (she/her) holds a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Before beginning her PhD, she worked in makerspaces and conducted research on technology-facilitated gender-based violence, Queering cybersecurity, and AI governance from civil society perspectives.

Outside of academia, Kimberley worked for the Government of Canada, where she researched emerging technologies and their implications for tax policy, and advised on privacy and security for digital services.

PhD research:

Kimberley’s research spans human-computer interaction, design, and law. She uses materiality (turning computational systems into physical things that people can touch and interact with) as a way of making the invisible workings of language technologies tangible and available for critical inquiry. This approach challenges the idea that interaction with language technologies is a matter of one person interacting with one machine or interface. Kimberley uses material forms to explore the wider networks of people, technologies, materials, and systems that shape how computational technologies are built and used. Her PhD research investigates this through textiles, in order to reconnect contemporary computing with the histories of weaving and the development of programmable machinery.

More broadly, Kimberley works with qualitative, participatory, and design-led methods.

Supervisors: Tara Capel, Lachlan D. Urquhart