Alumni Member
Joseph Kwarteng (Alumni) 
Research Associate
Joseph Kwarteng is a Research Associate in Responsible AI on the SAGE-RAI project. He focuses on researching, designing, and implementing GenAI educational experiments to enhance educational practices and outcomes. His work lies at the intersection of responsible artificial intelligence (AI), social justice, and education. Drawing on his extensive research into Intersectionality in Hate Speech Detection, particularly "Misogynoir"—a unique form of misogyny experienced by Black women at the intersection of sexism and racism—he's interested in initiatives that integrate these critical areas.
Keys: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Systems, Gender Data Gap, Hate Speech, Misogynoir
Team: Harith Alani, Vaclav Bayer, Tracie Farrell, Miriam Fernandez, Martino Mensio, , Paula Reyero Lobo, Aisling Third
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Publications
Kwarteng, J., Third, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Tarrant, D. and Domingue, J. (2026). SAGE-RAI: Design Patterns for Transparent RAG Systems. In: The ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW '26), 13-17 Apr 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. https://oro.open.ac.uk/108348/.
Brown, V., Larasati, R., Kwarteng, J. and Farrell, T. (2025). Understanding AI and Power: Situated Perspectives from Global North and South Practitioners. AI & Society (Early Access). https://oro.open.ac.uk/107004/.
Herodotou, C., Gaved, M., Shrestha, S., Comfort, C., Maguire, C., Sides, T., Kwarteng, J., Bayer, V., Lee, J., Mulholland, P. and Fernandez, M. (2025). Student-Facing Dashboard - Scale up. Insights from the second year of implementation. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/106146/.
Rienties, B., Ullmann, T., Tessarolo, F., Kwarteng, J., Domingue, J., Coughlan, T., Coughlan, E. and Bektik, D. (2025). Developing an institutional AI digital assistant in an age of Industry 5. 0. Applied Sciences, 15(12), https://oro.open.ac.uk/104586/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Domingue, J., Ekuban, A. and Kwarteng, J. (2025). AIDA: AI Digital Assistant for Personalised and Adaptive Online Learning. In: EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2025, 19-23 May 2025, Barcelona, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/104371/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Ekuban, A., Kwarteng, J. and Domingue, J. (2025). Best Practices for the Responsible Adoption of Generative AI in Higher Education. Proceedings, 114(1), pp. 1–8. https://oro.open.ac.uk/103123/.
Kwarteng, J. (2024). Understanding Misogynoir Online: Challenges In Identifying Intersectional Hate. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/97101/.
Reyero Lobo, P., Kwarteng, J., Russo, M., Fahimi, M., Scott, K., Ferrara, A., Sen, I. and Fernandez, M. (2023). A Multidisciplinary Lens of Bias in Hate Speech. In: The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 6-9 Nov 2023, Kusadasi, Turkey. https://oro.open.ac.uk/94708/.
Kwarteng, J., Farrell, T., Third, A. and Fernandez, M. (2023). Annotators’ Perspectives: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Interpreting Misogynoir. In: ASONAM 2023: The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 6-9 Nov 2023, Kusadasi, Turkey. https://oro.open.ac.uk/93975/.
Kwarteng, J., Farrell, T., Third, A., Burel, G. and Fernandez, M. (2023). Understanding Misogynoir: A Study of Annotators’ Perspectives. In: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci ’23), 30 Apr - 01 May 2023, Evanston, TX, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/88020/.
Kwarteng, J., Coppolino Perfumi, S., Farrell, T., Third, A. and Fernandez, M. (2022). Misogynoir: Challenges in Detecting Intersectional Hate. Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 12(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/85874/.
Reyero Lobo, P., Mensio, M., Pavon Perez, A., Bayer, V., Kwarteng, J., Fernandez, M., Daga, E. and Alani, H. (2022). Estimating Ground Truth in a Low-labelled Data Regime: A Study of Racism Detection in Spanish. In: Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media (NEATCLasS), 6-9 Jun 2022, Atlanta, Georgia. https://oro.open.ac.uk/83210/.
Kwarteng, J., Coppolino Perfumi, S., Farrell, T. and Fernandez, M. (2021). Misogynoir: Public Online Response Towards Self-Reported Misogynoir. In: ASONAM '21: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 08-11 Nov 2021, Virtual Event Netherlands. https://oro.open.ac.uk/79929/.
