Dr Ann Thanaraj

Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Teesside University

Dr Ann Thanaraj (NTF, CATE, PFHEA) is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Digital Transformation at Teesside University. She is also the Chair of the University's AI Operations Group who is doing some tremendously innovative work around reimagining what an AI fuelled digitally empowered curricula looks like. Her practical and research work intersects between AI and digital both in Higher Education Learning, Teaching, and Assessments, as well as in Legal Education and practice. Ann’s scholarly work in digital lawyering received eighteen citations from the House of Lords for its research strength and impact with wide implications about automated decision-making in 2018, strongly supporting her contributions to the national conversation on digital literacies in curriculum, the need for a multidisciplinary approach to train students in research, contributing to the future of law and tech scholarship, informing and shaping the policy and legal work in the UK, and most importantly influencing and instituting new legal governance regimes to manage emerging technologies.