Dr Birgit Schippers
Lecturer
Law
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Prize And Awards
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Publications
- Just AI? : Gender, power, and intersectional discrimination
- Schippers Birgit
- Artificial Intelligence & Work Transforming Work, Organizations, and Society in an Age of Insecurity (2024) (2024)
- Human Rights at Work : Written evidence submitted to the UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights
- Molnar Adam, Schippers Birgit, Thompson Danielle
- (2023)
- Disinformation
- Schippers Birgit, Powell CH, Barkane Irena, Puccinelli Oscar, Viljanen Jukka
- Specific Threats to Human Rights Protection from the Digital Reality International Responses and Recommendations to Core Threats from the Digitalised World (2022) (2022)
- Governing information flows during war : a comparative study of content governance and media policy responses after Russia's attack on Ukraine
- Susi Mart, Benedek Wolfgang, Fischer-Lessiak Gregor, Kettemann Matthias, Schippers Birgit, Viljanen Jukka
- (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.78580
- Drone justice : kill, surveil, govern
- Schippers Birgit
- The Pre-Crime Society Crime, Culture and Control in the Ultramodern Age (2021) (2021)
- Human rights start with you. UK Parliament Week 2020
- Schippers Birgit
- (2020)
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Teaching
M9352 Internet Law (year 3)
M7303 Law & the Challenges of Artificial Intelligence (year 3)
M9437 Internet Law (Honours)
M7908 Human Rights & Digital Technologies (PGT)
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Research Interests
Legal & ethical regulation of artificial intelligence
Human rights-compliance of biometric technologies, esp. facial recognition technology
Online disinformation & democratic harms
Professional Activities
- AI & human rights-based democracies: Can democracy survive AI?
- Speaker
- 23/11/2023
- University Of Strathclyde (Organisational unit)
- Advisor
- 11/2023
- Anindya Sen
- Host
- 9/10/2023
- Symposium 'Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights-Based Decision-Making'
- Organiser
- 30/8/2023
- Global Digital Human Rights Network Annual Conference 2023
- Organiser
- 28/8/2023
- AHRC UKRI Research Networking Assessment Panel (Event)
- Peer reviewer
- 24/7/2023
Projects
- Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training in Human Rights-based Decision-Making
- Harkens, Adam (Co-investigator) Miyake, Esperanza (Co-investigator) Nicol, Emma (Co-investigator) Ntona, Maria (Co-investigator) Schippers, Birgit (Co-investigator) Webster, Elaine (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2027
- COST-funded Global Digital Human Rights Network Annual Conference 2023
- Schippers, Birgit (Principal Investigator)
- 28-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023
- COST-funded project: Gender, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Human Rights: A Comparative Study of Legal Instruments and Policy Initiatives
- Schippers, Birgit (Principal Investigator)
- COST Short-Term Scientific Mission Grant (externally funded)
- 15-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
- Fieldtrip to attend meeting of UN Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Geneva, 2019
- Schippers, Birgit (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2019
- Political Studies Association Travel Grant 2018
- Schippers, Birgit (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2018
- Queen’s University Belfast Global Challenge Networking Programme Research Fund ‘Security & Justice in the Age of Killer Robots’ interdisciplinary workshop
- Bourne, Mike (Principal Investigator) Schippers, Birgit (Co-investigator)
- 29-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2018