jirotka
Professor Marina Jirotka, the accidental computer expert, and the battle to make tech ethical, sustainable and fair
Professor Marina Jirotka is a highly-respected Professor of Computer Science at Oxford and an international expert in Human Centred Computing and Responsible Innovation. She has been at the university for some 30 years – and yet, she smiles, she is not from a typical Oxford academic background. It really could have all been very different. Professor Jirotka's parents, academic chemists, came to this country on the eve of war from what was then Czechoslovakia. Refugees from Hitler, then Stalin, they settled in a small town in Scotland, with her grandparents; building a business and a new life far from home.