UTW 2026

Session Host

Bríd-Áine Parnell

Bríd-Áine Parnell is a PhD candidate on the Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing CDT at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. Her work on personal names and digital identity investigates the social, political and technological entanglements of storing and processing personal data in many-layered information infrastructures, where the capabilities of the cutting edge are often limited by the affordances at the foundations. She has a background as a technology journalist and in interdisciplinary studies including the study of sociotechnical systems, data capitalism and colonialism, media and communication studies, sociolinguistics, computer science, and algorithmic justice.

Sessions at this workshop:
 Thurs, 14:40 Digital text, legacy tech and the many meanings of identity

 Overview