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Cian O’Donovan is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL’s Department of Science and Technology Studies. He is an expert on the governance of technology and in particular the impacts of digital transformation on social care and long term care. He uses his research on social care to study who benefits from innovation more broadly, who pays for it, and who decides.

He also does his best to ensure this research contributes to public engagement and movement building that can challenge powerful interests in order to achieve a more sustainable and fairer world. In 2014 he co-founded Uplift, Ireland’s largest people-powered digital advocacy organisation.

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Dr. Cian O’Donovan is an expert in digital transformations in care and the politics of innovation

six recent articles

• Wilson, J., Hume, J., O’Donovan, C., & Smallman, M. (2023). Providing ethics advice in a pandemic, in theory and in practice: A taxonomy of ethics advice. Bioethics. https://doi.org/10/gsjhn3
• Stilgoe, J., & O’Donovan, C. (2023). Trials and tribulations: Who learns what from urban experiments with self-driving vehicles? In F. Cugurullo, F. Caprotti, M. Cook, A. Karvonen, P. McGuirk, & S. Marvin (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and the City. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365877-4
• O’Donovan, C., Michalec, A. (Ola), & Moon, J. R. (2022). Capabilities for transdisciplinary research. Research Evaluation, 31(1), 145–158. https://doi.org/10/gpbxs4
• O’Donovan, C. (2022). Collective capabilities for resisting far-right extremism online and in the real world. Journal of Peer Production, 15. peerproduction.net/issues/issue-15-transition/peer-reviewed-papers/collective-capabilities-for-resisting-far-right-extremism-online-and-in-the-real-world/
• Michalec, O., O’Donovan, C., & Sobhani, M. (2021). What is robotics made of? The interdisciplinary politics of robotics research. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10/gh7qwm
• O’Donovan, C., & Smith, A. (2020). Technology and Human Capabilities in UK Makerspaces. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 21(1), 63–83. https://doi.org/10/gh6s7x

links

• UCL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/people/dr-cian-odonovan
• X: https://x.com/cian
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cianodonovan/
• Email: cian.o@ucl.ac.uk

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