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        <h1>Laura Carter</h1>
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        <p><br>London and Essex.<br><br>
          <a href="mailto:laura.carter@essex.ac.uk">Email</a> me.<br>
          I <a href=https://twitter.com/LauraC_rter>tweet</a>.
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        <h2>Research</h2>
        <p> I'm a PhD student in the <a href= https://hrbdt.ac.uk/>Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project</a> at the <a href=https://www.essex.ac.uk/>University of Essex</a>.
         I'm researching the ways in which gender stereotypes are encoded into data-driven decision-making systems in the UK public sector: my research focuses on the use of data assemblages in children's social services in England.
        My supervisors are <a href=https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/mcgre64903/lorna-mcgregor>Professor Lorna McGregor</a> and <a href= https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/ryanf84501/roisin-ryan-flood>Dr Roisin Ryan-Flood</a>.
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        <p> I'm currently an <a href=https://openlifesci.org/> Open Life Science </a> Fellow, part of the OLS-2 cohort which runs from September to December 2020.
Together with <a href=https://twitter.com/brainonsilicon> Sophia Batchelor </a> and <a href=https://twitter.com/ismaelkhergar> Ismael Kherroubi Garcia</a>, I am working to build a community of practice for the Turing Way's <a href=https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/ethical-research/ethical-research.html> Guide to Ethical Research. </a>
We aim to build open-source resources for reproducible, responsible and ethical data science, and a community to put these resources into practice.
This project builds on work I did while based at the <a href=https://www.turing.ac.uk/>Alan Turing Institute</a> in London as an <a href=https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/doctoral-students/laura-carter>Enrichment Student</a> from January to September 2020.</p>
        <p>I'm also occasionally a gender consultant and advisor, with specific expertise in human rights, and discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. Past and current clients include <a href=https://frontlineaids.org/> Frontline AIDS</a>, <a href=https://www.edgeeffect.org/ >Edge Effect</a>, and the <a href=https://www.worldbank.org> World Bank Group.</a> <a href="mailto:laura.carter@essex.ac.uk">Email me</a> for more information.</p>

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        <h2>Writing</h2>

        <p> July 2020: <a href=http://repository.essex.ac.uk/28041/> Imperfect Models of the World: Gender Stereotypes and Assumptions in Covid-19 Responses</a>: part of the Essex Dialogues on Covid-19, Law and Human Rights project.<p>
        <p> May 2020: <a href=https://medium.com/datakinduk/take-a-seat-the-ai-will-be-with-you-shortly-20b29699ee46 >Take a seat: the AI will be with you shortly</a>: a report of <a href=https://www.datakind.org/chapters/datakind-uk> DataKind UK</a>'s Ethics Book Club on AI and medicine.<p>
        <p> November 2019: <a href=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2019/11/19/book-review-the-costs-of-connection-how-data-is-colonizing-human-life-and-appropriating-it-for-capitalism-by-nick-couldry-and-ulises-a-mejias/> Book Review: The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias </a> for LSE Review of Books. </p>
        <p> April 2019: <a href=https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/googles-pay-audit-and-the-meaning-of-equality/ >Google's pay audit and the meaning of 'equality'</a>, a blog post for the <a href= https://hrbdt.ac.uk/>
          Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project</a>.

        <h2>Work history</h2>
        <p> From 2011 to 2019, I worked at the International Secretariat of <a href=https://www.amnesty.org/en/>Amnesty International</a>, of which six years was spent in research and policy advice roles.</p>
        <p> Prior to this, I worked as a caseworker for domestic violence and hate crime cases, a freelance maths tutor, a bartender, and an assistant language teacher for elementary and junior high school students in rural Wakayama, Japan. </p>
        <p> I have an MA in Gender Studies from SOAS and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. </p>

        <h2>Board and advisory work</h2>
        <p> I'm a trustee of the <a href= http://www.feminist-review-trust.com/>
          Feminist Review Trust</a>, which allocates c.GBP25,000 to feminist projects worldwide annually. I also volunteered as a screener for the <a href=https://europeanlesbianconference.org/>EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community's</a> COVID-19 grants programme in September-October 2020, where we allocated EUR 28,000 to lesbian*-led groups in crisis across the region.</p>
<p> I am on the <a href=https://www.datakind.org/chapters/datakind-uk>DataKind UK</a> Ethics Committee: amongst other things, we organise data ethics <a href=https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/datakind-uk-4112514489>book clubs</a> in London and online every couple of months. </p>
          <p> I was on the Steering Committee for the European Commission's <a href=https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/combatting-discrimination/lesbian-gay-bi-trans-and-intersex-equality/study-transgender-people-eu_en> Transgender people in the EU</a> study, which ran from 2018 to 2020.The findings from the study, which covered the discrimination and harassment faced by trans people in the EU, and the impact of different legal gender recognition procedures on the lives of trans people, were published in the report <a href=https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/combatting-discrimination/lesbian-gay-bi-trans-and-intersex-equality/studies-and-research-lgbti-equality_en > Legal gender recognition in the EU: the journeys of trans people towards full equality</a> in June 2020.

        <h2>Other projects</h2>


        <p>I contributed to the Design Justice Network's zine #5, <a href=https://designjustice.org/zines> How to make a local Design Justice node.</a> <p>
        <p> I run <a href=https://tinyletter.com/data-feminism>Data/Feminism</a>, a weekly(ish) newsletter that looks at algorithms, data and technology from a feminist perspective. The <a href=https://tinyletter.com/data-feminism/archive> archives</a> are online.</p>
        <p> I wrote a satirical twitter bot that gives <a href=https://twitter.com/lifeadvicebot> individual self-care advice</a> for coping with structural problems.</p>
        <p>My tiny plot in a North London community garden has an <a href=https://www.instagram.com/lauragardenn7/> Instagram.</a> </p>
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