Dr. Elinor Carmi

Dr. Elinor Carmi is a Senior Lecturer in Data Justice and Social Justice at the Sociology & Criminology Department at City University, London, UK. During her Open Fellowship at Weizenbaum Institute she will work on the Human Data Good Practice (HDGP) project, which aims to develop a standard for adtech and AI practitioners that is similar to the one people who conduct clinical research on humans have to go through.

Dr. Carmi is a digital rights advocate, feminist, researcher and journalist who has been working on data politics, data literacies, feminist data, data justice and internet governance. In the past five years she has successfully won grants from UKRI, ESRC, and Nuffield Foundation together with colleagues from academia and NGOs.

Since 2021, Dr. Carmi has been a Parliamentary Academic Fellow working with the UK's Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) Committee. Dr. Carmi has been invited to be an expert advisor for several digital rights NGOs such as: Amnesty International Tech, UNESCO, Demos, Digital Poverty Alliance, Royal Society, and the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman (Forbrukerrådet).