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After AI?
Friday 31 Oct 2025
On Friday, October 17th, the Shifting Power team hosted the second “After AI?” symposium”. This interdisciplinary and varied event brought together 11 researchers, artists and other AI enthusiasts/critics to explore who, what or when is after AI. Throughout the day over 120 attendees joined the event, delivered on zoom. (Thumbnail image caption: Robbie Daniels, video still from...
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Celebrating Ortenz Rose: 45+ Years at The Open University
Thursday 30 Oct 2025
After an incredible 45-year journey at The Open University, Ortenz is retiring. Her contributions, especially to the early days and growth of KMi, have left a lasting legacy. On Tuesday, 28th October, KMi staff gathered to celebrate Ortenz’s remarkable career. The team presented her with a gift and shared anecdotes and stories, highlighting her long-standing...
Transforming transport with AI: KMi and ClearView’s vision for smart cities
Wednesday 29 Oct 2025
Clearview Intelligence and KMi successfully applied to the UKRI KTP scheme, securing a budget for designing and marketing new products and services using computer vision and AI for location intelligence on transport infrastructures. During the 30-month duration, the KMi and Clearview team will address two core challenges. The first challenge will focus on introducing the...
Latest KMi AI research presented at the OU FAIESTA
Thursday 9 Oct 2025
Can responsible AI transform education and boost student success? This question took centre stage at the online hands-on session showcasing the outcomes of two innovative KMi research projects: AIDA (AI Digital Assistant) and SAGE-RAI (Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI). Alexander Mikroyannidis and Aisling Third chaired the session and engaged with participants into discussions about the...
KMi secured a new UKRI Metascience project to assess UK’s competitiveness in research
Thursday 9 Oct 2025
KMi secured a new research project “Tracking Stars and Unicorns” funded by the UKRI Metascience unit, with an award of £310,646, to look at successful and unsuccessful proposals within all UKRI councils to track research trends, assess UK competitiveness against global competitors, and understand appropriate funding mechanisms to better support the development of Early Career...
KMi researchers have secured £106,078 from UKRI’s Metascience Unit to explore how large language models can streamline grant peer review without diluting fairness. The 12-month project, led by Prof Petr Knoth and Dr Francesco Osborne in partnership with Sheffield and Salford universities, will test four AI roles: triaging low-quality proposals, acting as a third reviewer,...
Closing the gap: Vaclav Bayer’s PhD shows how Learning Analytics can help to make education more equitableVaclav Bayer, who joined KMi as a part-time doctoral student in 2020, successfully defended his thesis on 9 September 2025. His work asks a single, urgent question: can the data we already collect about students be used to tackle the issue of awarding gaps that negatively impact our marginalised students? Awarding gaps – the unexplained...
