Research output per year
Research output per year
Dr., DR
Accepting PhD Students
Disaster Risk Reduction, Risk Communication, Governance, AI and Robotics in Healthcare, Socially Assistive Robotics, Affective Computing, Politics of Innovation, Technoscientific Imaginaries, Anthropology, Ethnography, Japan.
I am a social anthropologist specialising in Japanese Studies and Science and Technology Studies. My research focuses on risk, technology and health. I have been the research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project “AI and Health” since May 2019 at CBSS, my first postdoctoral appointment. I have recently been awarded a competitive 3-year-long Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Humanities and Social Science and in January 2022 I started a new project (as Principal Investigator) focusing on the uses of social robots in Japan and the UK and how these affect practices of care. Prior to joining CBSS, I studied for my PhD at UCL Anthropology Department. My thesis was based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork with the populations affected by the Fukushima disaster and my experience volunteering in recreative camps for Fukushima children since 2013. Drawing on my doctoral project, I wrote a research monograph which was published by Routledge in 2021.
My research interests bridge disaster justice, risk communication and governance, AI and robotics in healthcare. I have been lecturing, doing research supervision, leading seminars, organising and chairing workshops and marking dissertations on these topics for the past 5 years at UCL Anthropology Department and at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. I have also been invited as guest lecturer in other universities including the University of Oxford (Anthropology Department) and the University of Manchester (East Asia Studies Department). In 2021 I was seconded to the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Academic Development for six months to develop training for line-managers and Principal Investigators to help them manage more effectively their research teams (Concordat Plans). I am currently developing synchronous and asynchronous online and in-person teaching in the Medical School for the intercalated honours degree Bioethics, Law and Society, including on AI ethics, environmental justice and qualitative research methods.
I have been a member of the Usher Institute Research Committee since 2020. In particular, I represent early career researchers (ECRs) and have organised career development roundtables to help ECRs manage better their work-life balance, make sense of the different career paths available to them, and guide them to apply for fellowships and funding schemes.
Finally, I am the Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS), an international academic association concerned with furthering the field of the Anthropology of Japan. Please, send your queries related to JAWS to this email address: jawstreasurer@gmail.com
2022 University of Edinburgh - PgCAP and Fellowship of the HEA
2019 UCL - Ph.D. Social Anthropology, AHRC-funded
2015 University of Oxford - MSc Social Anthropology, Oxford Scholarship
2014 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - MPhil Japanese Studies
2013 Ritsumeikan - Advanced Japanese Language Course, MEXT/JASSO
2012 INALCO - MSt Japanese Studies, Erasmus Scholarship
2011 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - BA Law and Economics of East Asia
Languages
Fluent in English, French, Japanese, and Italian (native speaker)
2022-2023 University of Tokyo, Japan, Visiting Researcher
2022-2023 Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, UK, Visiting Researcher
2016-2017 Kyoto University, Japan, Visiting Researcher
Twitter: @giulia_de_togni
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Giulia De Togni (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Giulia De Togni (Assessor)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Giulia De Togni (Assessor)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Giulia De Togni (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Giulia De Togni (Assessor)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Cunningham-Burley, S., Chan, S., De Togni, G. & Erikainen, S.
1/05/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
18/01/22
1 Media contribution
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12/05/22
1 Media contribution
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