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Favour Borokini is a PGR Student within the School of Law researching afrofeminist ethics concerns in the design and use of avatars, under the supervision of Dr Oliver Butler, Dr Alan Chamberlain and Dr Lydia Farina. Her PhD is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)'s Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT). She holds an LLB from the University of Benin, Nigeria and has been a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria since 2019.

Before beginning her PhD, Favour worked with various organisations on technology policy and the impact of subsisting and emerging technologies on human rights with a specific focus on women's rights and the Global South. In her previous role as Data and Digital Rights researcher, she led the African Women in AI project at Pollicy, a Ugandan civic technology not-for-profit.

Favour also volunteered with the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Ekiti) and has co-authored various reports and spoken on various platforms about various intersections between technology and human rights.

Her LinkedIn profile may be found here.

Expertise Summary

Law, Feminism, Africa, Speculation, Technology.

Research Summary

Using socio-legal methods, Favour's research explores (representational) affordances of avatars from the perspective of African women on various platforms with a view towards developing an ethical… read more

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