Professor Bran Knowles
Professor of Sociotechnical SystemsResearch Overview
Bran is a qualitative researcher focusing on trust, privacy and ethical considerations (i.e. social responsibility) surrounding data and data systems. Her research explores different aspects of trust through ethnographic case studies, develops conceptual models of trust that help in understanding a research agenda for developing trusted data systems, and develops practitioner guidelines for creating trusted data systems. She approaches the development of socio-technical systems from a human perspective, applying an understanding of how people come to trust one another in the real world towards understanding how to design systems that people trust.
Profile
Bran is appointed through the Data Science Institute and jointly appointed to both the School of Computing and Communication (50%) and the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts design group ImaginationLancaster (50%). Her background is multidisciplinary, spanning the psychology, sociology, anthropology, and design, and her PhD is in Digital Innovation.
Current Teaching
SCC.412 Advanced HCI 2
LICA.341 Design Directions
01/12/2022 → 31/05/2023
Research
01/10/2022 → 31/03/2025
Research
12/08/2022 → 11/02/2026
Research
01/09/2021 → 28/02/2025
Research
01/08/2021 → 30/06/2022
Research
01/10/2020 → 30/09/2025
Research
01/03/2020 → 31/03/2020
Research
01/02/2020 → 31/01/2024
Research
01/01/2019 → 31/10/2020
Research
01/11/2017 → 31/10/2018
Other
01/09/2017 → 31/08/2019
Research
01/02/2016 → 31/01/2019
Research
29/04/2013 → 31/12/2014
Research
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Publication peer-review
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, Pentland Centre
- Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science
- DSI - Society
- HighWire Doctoral Training Centre
- SCC (Pervasive Systems)