Kimberley Paradis

Feminist HCI & Natural Language Processing

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.

I am primarily interested in feminist interaction design and community-based human-computer interaction research.

My research explores materiality as a way of making the invisible workings of computational systems tangible and available for critical inquiry. My PhD research investigates this through textiles, using their tactile qualities as a material language for computation. In doing so, the research reconnects contemporary computing with the histories of weaving and the development of programmable machinery.

Educational Background

PhD in Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing

University of Edinburgh

Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering

University of Ottawa

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

Vancouver, Canada September 2022 - September 2025

Board of Directors

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