Kimberley Paradis

About

I am a PhD student in the UKRI-funded CDT in Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh (2024–2028), supervised by Dr Tara Capel and Dr Lachlan D. Urquhart.

My research explores how people push back against language technologies. I use craft, storytelling, and participatory methods to understand how people experience these technologies and to co-create alternative ways of interacting with them. My research sits primarily within Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), design, and law. I draw on feminist, Queer, and community-based design traditions.

Affiliations

Centre for Technomoral Futures

University of Edinburgh January 2025 - Present

PhD Affiliate

Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation

University of Edinburgh September 2024 - Present

Research Student

Community-Based Research Centre

Vancoouver, Canada September 2023 - Present

Board Of Directors

Publications

Book Chapters

Paradis, K. (Forthcoming). "Under the Zoom Lens: Power Dynamics, Gender Violence, and the Need for Reform in Engineering Education." In J.J. Wright, A. Zidenberg, & E. Colpitts (Eds.), Covid-19 and Gendered and Sexual Violence on Campuses.

Journal Articles

Paradis, K. (2023). "More Than Ones and Zeros: Developing an Intersectional Framework for Artificial Intelligence." Journal of Information Ethics, 32(2), 70-83.

Blog Posts

Paradis, K. (2025). "Hack Your Age: Imagining the Future of Technology." Centre for Doctoral Training in Responsible Natural Language Processing.

Paradis, K., & Nathoo, S. (2023). "Beyond the Binary: Queering Technology for Inclusive Facial Recognition." The Voice, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers.

Nathoo, S., & Paradis, K. (2023)."Where are all the Queer Engineers?" The Voice, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers.'

Research & Teaching Experience

Research Coordinator

University of Ottawa, AI & Society Initiative Apr 2023 - Aug 2024

Research Assistant

University of Edinburgh, School of Business Apr 2025 - Current

University of Oxford, Centre for Governance of AI Apr 2024

University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law Jun 2021 - Mar 2023

Teaching Assistant

University of Edinburgh, Systems Design Project Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

University of Ottawa, GNG 4570: Droit pour les ingénieurs [Engineering Law] Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

Fellow

University of Ottawa, Centre for Law, Technology and Society Nov 2022 - Apr 2023

Things That Shape My Thinking

A living collection of books, blog posts, articles, and videos that inspire, challenge, or inform my research, in no particular order.

Artworks and Exhibits

Our Story: Closing the queer history gap in the Highlands

La Résistance des IA (The Resistance of AI)

Books

Critical Fabulations by Daniela Rosner

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

Organisations

Citadel Youth Centre

First Nations Information Governance Centre

Science for the People

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Academic Articles

"Rural Computing: Beyond Access and Infrastructure" by Jean Hardy, Dharma Dailey, Susan Wyche, and Norman Makoto Su

"Must NLP Be Extractive?" by Steven Bird

"HCI as Heterodoxy: Technologies of Identity and the Queering of Interaction with Computers" by Ann Light