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Fernandez, Miriam; Morales Tirado, Alba Catalina; Pavon-Perez, Angel; Duddin, Keely; Zhang, Min; Bakina, Ksenia; Bandara, Arosha; Capdevila, Rose; Lazard, Lisa and Jurasz, Olga (2025). Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. In: ISWC 2025 – The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, 2-6 Nov 2025, Nara, Japan. view in ORO


Zhang, Min; Rauf, Irum and Bandara, Arosha K. (2025). To Protect & Serve: Enabling Responsible Software Engineering for Online Safety. In: ResponsibleSE ’25, 23-28 Jun 2025, Trondheim, Norway. view in ORO


Herdale, Giles; Duddin, Keely and Jurasz, Olga (2025). Landscape Review: Policing Technology-Facilitated and Online Violence Against Women and Girls. Centre for Protecting Women Online, Milton Keynes, UK. view in ORO


Gamage, Dilrukshi; Sewwandi, Dilki; Zhang, Min and Bandara, Arosha K. (2025). Labeling Synthetic Content: User Perceptions of Label Designs for AI-Generated Content on Social Media. In: The ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 26 Apr – 01 May 2025, Yokohama, Japan. view in ORO


Bakina, Ksenia; Capdevila, Rose; Duddin, Keely; Jurasz, Olga; Lazard, Lisa and Pavon-Perez, Angel (2025). Response from the Centre for Protecting Women Online to the Home Affairs Committee inquiry on tackling violence against women. The Open University / Centre for Protecting Women Online. view in ORO


Bandara, Arosha K. and Fernandez, Miriam (2025). Towards ‘Safe by Design’ Technologies for Protecting Women Online. In: Centre for Protecting Women Online STEMinar, 6 Mar 2025, The Open University, UK. view in ORO


Jurasz, Olga (2025). Violence, Law and Women’s Bodies. In: Vuille, Joëlle; Kapferer, Nils; Hotz, Sandra; Hefti, Angela and Boillet, Véronique eds. In-corpore. What the law does to our bodies. Zürich, CH: DIKE Verlag, pp. 109–122. view in ORO


Black, Iona; Bakina, Ksenia; Jurasz, Olga and Pavon Perez, Angel (2025). Response to the Women and Equalities Committee’s consultation on Misogyny, the Manosphere and Online Content. Centre for Protecting Women Online, Milton Keynes, UK. view in ORO


Pavon Perez, Angel; Fernandez, Miriam and Jurasz, Olga (2025). Response to the AI in financial services inquiry. Centre for Protecting Women Online. view in ORO


Bakina, Ksenia; Bandara, Arosha; Black, Iona; Capdevila, Rose; Jurasz, Olga; Lazard, Lisa; Pavon Perez, Angel and Zhang, Min (2025). Human Rights Council’s Advisory Committee Questionnaire on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence against Women and Girls. Centre for Protecting Women Online, The Open University. view in ORO


Thompson, Lucy; Frances, Tanya; Turley, Emma; Lazard, Lisa and Donnelly, Lois (2025). Conceptualizing and measuring violence: A feminist critical measurement analysis of gender-based violence research in a government policy-based setting. Violence Against Women (Early access). view in ORO


Bakina, Ksenia and Pavon Perez, Angel (2025). Response to the College of Policing consultation on data ethics and data driven technologies authorised professional practices. Centre for Protecting Women Online. view in ORO


Reyero Lobo, Paula; Daga, Enrico; Alani, Harith and Fernandez, Miriam (2024). Enhancing Hate Speech Annotations with Background Semantics. In: 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) – Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), 19-24 Oct 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. view in ORO


Barker, Kim and Jurasz, Olga (2024). #MeToo, Sport, and Women: Foul, Own Goal, or Touchdown? Online Abuse of Women in Sport as a Contemporary Issue. In: WSHR: Workshop on Sports and Human Rights 2022., 30 Jun 2022, Lausanne, Switzerland. view in ORO


Jurasz, Olga (2024). Online violence against women: A Four Nations study. The Open University. view in ORO


Kwarteng, Joseph; Farrell, Tracie; Third, Aisling and Fernandez, Miriam (2023). Annotators’ Perspectives: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Interpreting Misogynoir. In: ASONAM 2023: The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 6-9 Nov 2023, Kusadasi, Turkey. view in ORO


Reyero Lobo, Paula; Kwarteng, Joseph; Russo, Mayra; Fahimi, Miriam; Scott, Kristen; Ferrara, Antonio; Sen, Indira and Fernandez, Miriam (2023). A Multidisciplinary Lens of Bias in Hate Speech. In: The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 6-9 Nov 2023, Kusadasi, Turkey. view in ORO


Reyero Lobo, Paula; Daga, Enrico; Alani, Harith and Fernandez, Miriam (2023). Knowledge-Grounded Target Group Language Recognition in Hate Speech. In: 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems, 20-22 Sep 2023, Leipzig, Germany. view in ORO


Pavón Pérez, Ángel; Fernandez, Miriam; Al-Madfai, Hasan; Burel, Grégoire and Alani, Harith (2023). Tracking Machine Learning Bias Creep in Traditional and Online Lending Systems with Covariance Analysis. In: WebSci ’23: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, 30 Apr – 1 May 2023, Austin, TX, USA. view in ORO


Kwarteng, Joseph; Farrell, Tracie; Third, Aisling; Burel, Gregoire and Fernandez, Miriam (2023). Understanding Misogynoir: A Study of Annotators’ Perspectives. In: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci ’23), 30 Apr – 01 May 2023, Evanston, TX, USA. view in ORO