All posts by Imogen Parker

About Imogen Parker

Imogen is Associate Director (Society, justice & public services) at the Ada Lovelace Institute. Imogen’s career has been at the intersection of social justice, technology and research. In her previous role as Head of the Nuffield Foundation’s programmes on Justice, Rights and Digital Society she worked in collaboration with the founding partner organisations to create the Institute. Prior to that she was acting Head of Policy Research for Citizens and Democracy at Citizens Advice, Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and worked with Baroness Kidron to create the children’s digital rights charity 5Rights. She is a Policy Fellow at Cambridge University’s Centre for Science and Policy.

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  License to build: understanding what people think about public sector use of AI

  Imogen Parker of the Ada Lovelace Institute argues that the public sector must consider people’s comfort with AI if it is to use the technology effectively. Here, she sets out

  • Posted June 24, 2025
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  Do we need a ‘What Works Centre’ for public sector AI?

  Research has identified a need for evidence on AI efficacy and impacts if it is to be used fairly and safely in the public sector and deliver value for money.

  • Posted May 27, 2025
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  Why public legitimacy for AI in the public sector isn’t just a ‘nice to have’

  In the latest of a series of exclusive articles for GGF, Imogen Parker of the Ada Lovelace Institute argues that if the public are not convinced that the government is

  • Posted April 29, 2025
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  ‘Radical reimagining’: lessons for the use of AI in public services and policymaking

  Imogen Parker of the Ada Lovelace Institute distils six years of examining AI and data-driven technologies in the public sector – and more than 30 reports and research papers –

  • Posted April 1, 2025
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  What are we really talking about when we talk about AI?

  The phrase ‘artificial intelligence’ encompasses a plethora of different technologies and uses. The public sector should work to develop a shared language that describes the various possibilities to cut through

  • Posted February 4, 2025
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  Buying AI: how public sector procurement can ensure AI works for people and society

  At the start of this year we saw the remarkable moment of a popular TV show leading to government scrutiny of technology and criminal convictions, and even the introduction of

  • Posted December 10, 2024
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  AI in the public sector: from black boxes to meaningful transparency

  Getting transparency right around AI isn’t just good for democracy, it’s good for the public sector too, writes Imogen Parker, associate director at the Ada Lovelace Institute Within AI research

  • Posted November 12, 2024
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  AI in public services – a political panacea?

  Here in the UK, it’s party conference season – where tens of thousands of politicians, party members, charities, not-for-profits and businesses descend on a city in the hopes of understanding

  • Posted October 14, 2024
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  Making AI work for people and society

  At the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute with the mission to ensure that data and AI work for people and society, we undertake research to understand public needs

  • Posted September 18, 2024
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