TAS Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Impact & Legacy

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) foregrounds the social desirability, ethical acceptability and environmental sustainability of research and innovation. The TAS Grand Challenges are essentially a refactoring of the same concern with the broader (anticipated and unanticipated) impacts of research and research products.

RRI – and this project in particular – provides a specific perspective with associated concepts, tools and practices that can support researchers in embedding consideration of these issues within the research practice. This project builds on TAS’s substantial investment in and commitment to RRI and translates that into resources and learnings for future research and innovation.

The aim of this project is to learn from the experiences of RRI across the TAS Hub and network, and to promote best practice and resources arising from this to the wider TAS and ICT research community.

The objectives are:

· To identify specific opportunities and challenges experienced in the TAS community when seeking to conduct RI activities and develop associated guidance.

· To understand the role of RI researchers beyond TAS and identify good practice as well as areas of improvement for TAS.

· To evaluate, refine and support the RRI Prompt and Practice cards (RI cards) that we have developed to allow future use at scale.

· To consolidate other recent and established work using card-based tools (especially the EDI cards and Moral-IT cards) to make them more available and independently usable.

· To consolidate insights and findings from TAS projects that can support the training of the next generation of TAS designers and educators in particular.

· To develop an international ‘collective’ of multidisciplinary researchers who can develop, advise and promote with TAS (and future linked projects) in the context of the arts, humanities and design. https://www.stahrc.org/

· To identify relevant legal issues and help researchers understand legal obligations and the complex regulatory framework of emerging technologies relevant to TAS, and potentially influence it.