Kitty Chisholm is a professional coach and facilitator who has worked with Boards and leaders in both the private and public sectors, specialising in career development and strategic change. She is a founder Director of Boardwalk, supporting women in achieving their full leadership potential. Kitty has been involved with pioneering work in learning and development, from the first major application of AI to the creation innovative structures for corporate learning. Her proudest achievement was being part of the team that created the Knowledge Media Institute in 1995. She was a member of the Technology Foresight Leisure and Learning Panel and on the advisory boards of the BT Corporate University, VTES and JRBH, now Board Intelligence. Kitty was a Trustee of the Science Museum Group until January 2015 and chaired the Advisory Board of the School of Management of Royal Holloway. She has an MA from Cambridge, a BSc from the OU and her interest in the neurological bases of behaviour change led to an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change from Henley. Kitty co-authored a book, Neuroscience for Leadership, The Brain Gain Advantage, published by Palgrave in January 2015. Her latest book, Championing Women Leaders, written with Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj was published in November 2015.

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Fernandez, M., Tirado, A., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O. (2025) Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, Nara, Japan

Ghafourian, Y., Hanbury, A. and Knoth, P. (2025) Ranking To Learn: Human Experts, Search Engines, or LLMs for Learning Guidance, TPDL 2025: The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Tampere, Finland

Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fink, T., Fröbe, M., Galuščáková, P., Goeuriot, L., Iommi, D., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D. and Schaer, P. (2025) Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data, 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2025), Madrid, Spain

Tsaneva, S., Dessì, D., Osborne, F. and Sabou, M. (2025) Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop, Information Processing & Management, 62, Elsevier

Cancellieri, M., Docekal, M., Pride, D., Gruenpeter, M., Douard, D. and Knoth, P. (2025) Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify, The 20th International Conference on Open Repositories, Chicago, Illinois, USA