Rate My Professor Rob Procter

Procter led the multidisciplinary Reading the Riots project in 2011 with The Guardian Newspaper, analyzing Twitter activity during the UK riots, and collaborated with BBC Radio 5 Live on social media story analysis. As a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, he co-leads the social data science interest group. He served as Editor of the Health Informatics Journal from 2004 to 2020 and holds advisory roles including member of the OECD AI expert group on AI incidents, College of Optometrists Artificial Intelligence Expert Advisory Group, Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT advisory board, and Algorithms, Data and Democracy project. He is co-investigator on UKRI-funded projects AdSoLve and RAKE addressing AI ethics and safety, and participates in Project Bluebird for agent-based air traffic control tools. Procter received best paper awards for 'The ethical challenges of publishing Twitter data for research dissemination' at the ACM Web Science Conference (2017) and 'Supporting the use of user generated content in journalistic practice' at the ACM CHI Conference (2017). Key publications include 'Digital Wildfires: propagation, verification, regulation, and responsible innovation' (ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2016), 'Reading the riots on Twitter: methodological innovation for the analysis of big data' (International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2013), 'Everyday Diagnostic Work in the Histopathology Lab: CSCW Perspectives on the Utilization of Data-Driven Clinical Decision Support Systems' (Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 2024), and 'Trustworthy AI: UK Air Traffic Control Revisited' (UK AI Research Symposium, 2025).