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Dr. Aphra Kerr is a Full Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin and Senior Adviser at the UCD Centre for Digital Policy. She is adjunct Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University.
She is a Co-PI at the ADAPT Centre for Digital Media Technology, scientific lead of the Transparent Digital Governance strand and co-lead of the Autonomy and Responsibility challenge. She is PI on two targeted research projects in collaboration with Dublin City Council Smart Dublin: one focussed on health and wellbeing initiatives in the Dublin 8 area and one on the use of digital twins in participative city policy making and urban sustainability.
Her ADAPT research focuses on the ethics and values underpinning the design and governance of AI, AI related public policy and social expectations of AI. She is also working on projects related to algorithmic and AI literacy, young people’s engagement with media and gaming, histories of creative computing and examining media concentration and power.
Aphra has over twenty years researching digital content and technology with a focus on digital media and digital games. She is the author of over 100 publications and two monographs on digital games: Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy, Routledge, 2017 and The Business and Culture of Digital Games, Gamework/Gameplay, Sage 2006. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Edinburgh (2019) and the University of Pennsylvania (2011). She was nominated and accepted into Academia Europaea in 2020. She holds an MA (by research) and a PhD in Communication Studies from Dublin City University (2000).
