News & Events

We welcome Dr Sophie Nightingale on Tuesday 25 Nov 2025 (week 8), 12-1 in S0.18. Sophie completed her PhD in Psychology at Warwick and is now a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University. Her talk “The Gen-AI Generation how worried we should be about the democratised ability to generate synthetic content?” will discuss her research examining the realism and trustworthiness of faces generated using GAN and diffusion models, and how people use guidance information from (purportedly) either an AI algorithm or a group of human experts when completing simple decision-making tasks. Sophie’s talk will be followed by a Q&A.

On Monday 1^st December (week 9), 4-5pm in JX2.02 we welcome Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees, Professor of Law at Swansea University, who will speak about “Trust in User-Generated Evidence: Insights from the ECR-funded TRUE Project.” She considers the rising amount of information recorded and shared online by citizens on mobile devices and its value as evidence in legal accountability processes. Does the increase in deepfakes and synthetic media lead to mistrust in user-generated evidence in the context of mass human rights violations? This will be followed by a Q&A.