Irina is a researcher, educator & speaker. Her projects address online information disclosure, creepy technologies and the sense of powerlessness people experience in the face of massive personal data collection. She coordinates an EU-funded collaborative project VIRT-EU, examining how IoT developers enact ethics in practice and looking to design interventions into the IoT development process to support ethical reflection on data and privacy in the EU. Her collaborations with industry and academia explore how we can enrich our understanding and ability to exploit large datasets through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. She is an expert on surveillance and privacy in practice, having completed research on data in contemporary digital lives, critical systems and technology use in crisis response, communication technology use and innovation in Post-Soviet environments, and the use of tracking technologies in personal and institutional settings.
