IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning

On Tuesday 6th April we will be hosting an IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning, where we will welcome current IAS Residential Fellows Ms Crystal Bitutu Isanda & Professor Helen Peterson.

Coffee mornings are also an opportunity for Loughborough colleagues to come along and discuss with the IAS team, potential applications for funding before submitting. To ensure understanding of, and alignment with, the IAS.

Please feel free to book using the button below, to come along and join us for an informal in-person gathering at International House with coffee and cakes to meet our Fellows, all are welcome.

Ms Crystal Bitutu Isanda, EDSAFE AI Alliance & SafeSignKe

Crystal Isanda is a Kenyan AI governance researcher, governance designer, and public intellectual whose work centres on making the systems that govern children visible to the communities they affect. She is the founder of SafeSignKe, a consent infrastructure project developing Data Rights Cards — colour-coded, bilingual governance tools delivered via WhatsApp, that translate EdTech privacy policies into plain-language consent, context, and consequence information for guardians, teachers, and students in Kenyan schools.

During their IAS Fellowship, Ms Isanda will be collaborating with Dr Marianna Coulentianos from the School of Design and Creative Arts.

Professor Helen Peterson, Örebro University

Helen Peterson is Professor of Sociology in the Department of School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden. She received her PhD in Sociology in 2005 from Uppsala University, Sweden, and became an Associate Professor/Reader (in Swedish: Docent) in Sociology in 2012, also at Uppsala University. Peterson has researched the Swedish higher education sector and the European science and innovation sector through a gendered lens for 20 years.

During their IAS Fellowship, Professor Peterson will be collaborating with Dr Sarah Barnard from the Loughborough Business School.