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Digital Media, Empathy, Emotional AI, Emergent technology, Narrative Research, Discourse, Poetics, Design Fiction, Biometrics

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Employment (6)

Bangor University: Bangor, GB

2022-09 to present | Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics & Policing in North Wales: Establishing Citizens’ Perspectives (School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences)
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Alexander Laffer

Kingston University: London, GB

2021-11 to present | Research Assistant, Evaluating "Asset-based Storytelling in Kingston" (Kingston School of Art)
Employment
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Alexander Laffer

University of Birmingham: Birmingham, Birmingham, GB

2021-04-18 to present | Teaching Fellow (English Language and Linguistics)
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Alexander Laffer

University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, GB

2022-12-15 to 2023-03-31 | Research Fellow, Critically Exploring Biometric AI Futures
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Alexander Laffer

Bangor University: Bangor, Gwynedd, GB

2021-02 to 2022-08 | Research Officer, Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan; Taking Back Control of Our Personal Data: An ethical impact assessment of personal data storage apps (School of History, Law and Social Sciences)
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Alexander Laffer

Goldsmiths University of London: London, London, GB

2016-12-01 to 2020-08-31 | Lecturer in Linguistics (English and Creative Writing)
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Alexander Laffer

Education and qualifications (4)

Goldsmiths University of London: London, London, GB

2018-09-10 to 2020-07-30 | PGCHE
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Alexander Laffer

The Open University: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, GB

2016-06-30 | PhD in Linguistics (Faculty of Education and Language Studies)
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Alexander Laffer

University of Nottingham: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, GB

2008-12-11 | MA Literary Linguistics (School of English)
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Alexander Laffer

University of Nottingham: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, GB

2007-07-11 | BA(Hons) in English Studies (School of English)
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Alexander Laffer

Professional activities (2)

Poetics and Linguistics Association: N/A, GB

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Alexander Laffer

British Association for Applied Linguistics: N/A, GB

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Alexander Laffer

Funding (2)

DEK Communications Consultancy

Contract
European Regional Development Fund; Lewisham Council; Goldsmiths, University of London (London, GB)
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Alexander Laffer

Effective Business Communication: Student Consultancies

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Santander Universities (London, GB)
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Alexander Laffer

Works (9)

Using an Online Narrative Approach to Explore Diverse Participants’ Understanding of Emerging Technology: Citizen’s Perspectives on Living With Emotional AI

SAGE Publications, Ltd.
2022 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781529604122
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Alexander Laffer

Working with Affective Computing: Exploring UK Public Perceptions of AI enabled Workplace Surveillance

2022 | Conference paper
Contributors: Alexander Laffer; Lachlan Urquhart; Alex Laffer; Diana Miranda
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Alexander Laffer

Emotional AI in Cities

Machine Learning and the City
2022-05-21 | Other
Contributors: Alexander Laffer; Vian Bakir; Nader Ghotbi; Tung Manh Ho; Alexander Laffer; Peter Mantello; Andrew McStay; Diana Miranda; Hiroshi Miyashita; Lena Podoletz et al.
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Alexander Laffer

Attitudes Towards Emotional Artificial Intelligence Use: Transcripts of Citizen Workshops Collected Using an Innovative Narrative Approach, 2021

UK Data Service
2022-05-04 | Dataset
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Alexander Laffer

(IM/E)MIGRATION

The Digital Review
2021 | Journal article
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Alexander Laffer

Discourses of lockdown: A qualitative analysis and comparison of media coverage of Lockdown 2 and 3

2021 | Report
Contributors: Alexander Laffer; Clare Anderson
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Alexander Laffer

Taking Back Control of Our Personal Data: An ethical impact assessment of personal data storage apps

Bangor University
2021 | Report
Contributors: Vian Bakir; Alexander Laffer; Andrew McStay
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Alexander Laffer

UK Attitudes Towards Personal Data Stores and Control Over Personal Data, 2021

2021 | Dataset
Contributors: Alexander Laffer; Vian Bakir; Andrew McStay; Alexander Laffer
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Alexander Laffer

When readers talk about characters as if they were real, how do they talk about them? Empathy and gossip in reading group discourse

Poetics
2021-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0304-422X
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Alexander Laffer

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Humanities & social sciences communications. (1)