Dr James Wright

Research Associate, The Alan Turing Institute

Dr James Wright has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies / Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hong Kong, where his work focused on the development and use of robots for the care of older adults in Japan. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the France-Japan Foundation at EHESS focused on a comparison between Japanese and EU care robot development projects, he worked as a research associate at the University of Sheffield’s CIRCLE research institute, looking at the care technology landscape in the UK. His research focuses on care robots in Japan, the UK, and Europe, as well as digital welfare technologies, emotion recognition systems, and public innovation policy and practice.