Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community Enabling Cross-Sector Environments for Postdigital Inclusion

“Human data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community: Enabling Cross-Sector Environments for Postdigital Inclusion (Hayes et al. 2023) provides multidisciplinary insights into the genealogy of HDI in our fast-developing era of AI. The addition of resistance to Mortier et al. (2014) conceptual framework enhances the ways in which we can theorise and make sense of the field of HDI ... .” (Keith Turvey, Postdigital Science and Education, Vol. 6 (2), 2024)

Sarah Hayes is Professor of Higher Education Policy and a Principal Fellow of the HEA. She is an Honorary Professor at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, and an Associate Editor for the Postdigital Science and Education journal. Sarah co-edited Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (2022) with Michael Peters and Petar Jandrić. She also wrote The Labour of Words in Higher Education (2019) and Postdigital Positionality (2021) which opened debate on how disadvantage manifests in the disconnect between inclusivity policies and the widespread digitalisation and datafication of society.

Matthew Johnson is Head of Research at the Black Equity Organisation, where he leads on all research pillars including education and skills. He is completing his doctoral research, which specialises in International Education, at the University of Sussex. Matt has an interest in the inequities of data in the postdigital world and the pathways to address them. He is particularly interested in a comparative approach, drawing lessons from economies and systems from beyond the UK to inform domestic policy and practice.