Meet the Team

  • PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    Beryl Pong is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she is hosted by the Centre for the Future of Intelligence. She also holds affiliated positions with the Faculty of English and Trinity College at Cambridge, and with the Department of English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore.

    Beryl’s research interests span modern and contemporary literature, philosophies of space and time, science and technology studies, and sound and visual culture. In addition to articles on related topics, she is the author of British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime: For the Duration (Oxford University Press, 2020), and co-editor of Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology (forthcoming, Open Humanities Press).

  • CO-INVESTIGATOR

    Richard A Carter is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture at the University of York, and a multidisciplinary digital artist. Carter’s work addresses questions concerning the current state and future implications of digital activities, objects, and environments. Carter’s research is embedded within his artistic practice, meditating on the nature and potentials of sensing, knowing, and representation at the intersection between human and machinic actors. Carter’s art engages subsequently a wide range of technologies, formats, and modes—including drones and satellites, machine vision, generative algorithms, poetic text, and virtual worlds.

  • CO-INVESTIGATOR

    Márjory Da Costa-Abreu is an academic in the Department of Computing at Sheffield Hallam University.

    Her main area of research is ethical artificial intelligence, and she has strong interest in using research-fused teaching to empower students' learning.

    She is over 70 scientific articles and supervision or more than 20 research students.

    She is an Associate Editor for IET Biometrics and PAAA.

    Márjory is a feminist and an activist for women in science.

  • CO-INVESTIGATOR

    Joanna Tidy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, where she is also an associate fellow of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute. Her research concerns war, gender (especially masculinities), military power, and violence. Joanna's work tends to be interdisciplinary, and she is interested in questions of research process, method, and form. She has recently written a book on gender and military violence beyond combat and has published widely in IR and interdisciplinary journals.

  • RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

    Amy Gaeta is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. She uses feminist theory and critical disability studies to analyze the emotional, aesthetic, and political dimensions of human-tech relations, especially those regarding consumer drones. Amy’s research is deeply concerned with how semi-autonomous technologies impact the formation of subjecthood and ideas of humanness.

    Amy is strongly committed to the aims of disability justice, many of which inform her work as a researcher, activist, and poet. Her work has appeared in First Monday, the Journal of Visual Culture, N+1, and more.

  • RESEARCH PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR

    Yvonne is a Research Project Administrator at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence supporting the projects "Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking" and "Desirable Digitalisation". She works closely with the Research Grants Coordinator.

    Yvonne has held similar roles at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and the University of Sussex. Her work has included project planning, grant management, digital content development, and administrative support for academic research, with a focus on the humanities and social sciences.

    She has previously worked with Amnesty International, Universal Pictures International, and Worldwide Fund for Nature, where she supported global operations and project management. She holds a BSc in Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London.

Project Partners

  • Drone Wars UK

  • Imperial War Museum

  • Human Studio

Advisory Board

Prof. Peter Adey, Professor in Human Geography, University of London—Royal Holloway

Prof. Joanna Bourke, Professor in History, University of London—Birkbeck

Dr. Antoine Bousquet, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Swedish Defence University

Prof. Joseph DeLappe, Professor in Games and Tactical Media, Abertay University

Prof. Anthony Downey, Professor in Visual Culture, Birmingham City University

Prof. Debjani Ganguly, Professor of English and Director of Informatics Lab, University of Virginia

Prof. Caren Kaplan, Professor Emerita in American Studies, University of California—Santa Barbara

Prof. Adam Piette, Professor in Modern English Literature, University of Sheffield