Dr Jim Everett, Principal Investigator

Jim A.C. Everett is a Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Kent. He completed his BA, MSc, and D.Phil at the University of Oxford before completing a Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University and a Marie Curie PostDoc at Leiden University. Jim specialises in moral judgment, perceptions of moral character, and the moral psychology of artificial intelligence. Jim has received early career awards from the three largest international societies in social psychology (EASP, SPSP, and APS), along with a Philip Leverhulme Prize in recognition of internationally recognised contributions to the field.

Dr Edmond Awad, Co-Investigator

Edmond Awad is a Senior Research Fellow at The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at University of Oxford (secondment from University of Exeter). Edmond’s research interests are in the areas of Ethics of AI, Computational Social Science and Multi-agent Systems. In 2016, Edmond led the design, development, and research of Moral Machine, a website that gathers human decisions on moral dilemmas faced by driverless cars.

Scott Claessens, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Scott Claessens is a researcher in the behavioural sciences with a passion for research methods, data science, and statistics. He studied psychology at the University of Bristol and Newcastle University before moving to New Zealand to complete his PhD at the University of Auckland. After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral Research Fellow in Auckland for two years before moving back to the UK to work on this project.

Ethan Landes, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Ethan Landes is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Psychology focusing on Moral Psychology. Ethan is a philosopher by training, but a psychologist at heart. Before Kent, Ethan was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich under Dr Kevin Reuter studying dual character concepts and developing research methods for experimental conceptual engineering. He completed his PhD in philosophy on the philosophy of philosophy at the University of St Andrews.

Pierce Veitch, PhD student

Pierce Veitch is doing his PhD research on the determinants of trust in policy-making AI and the leaders that use them. Pierce is a mixed-methods researcher who uses a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches in his research. Other research interests include the psychological consequences of legally harming animals and psychology related to the adoption and maintenance of plant-based diets.

Katherine Bellenie, Project Manager

Having completed a BA in Economics and Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a BSc in Psychology at the Open University, Katherine has over 15 years' experience in the operations management of research projects within the university sector, and has worked on the grant life-cycle of numerous international, national and charitable projects.