Professor Genevieve Bell
Biography
Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHA was appointed the 13th Vice-Chancellor of ANU in January 2024. Genevieve is the University’s first female Vice-Chancellor. She is also a Vice President and a Senior Fellow at Intel Corporation.
Genevieve holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and is a renowned anthropologist, technologist, and futurist, having spent more than two decades in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel's product development and social science and design research capabilities. She is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development and for being an important voice in the global debates around artificial intelligence and human society.
In 2017, Genevieve returned to Australia and established the 3A Institute at ANU, in collaboration with CSIRO's Data61, with the mission of building a new branch of engineering to take AI-enabled cyber-physical systems safely, sustainably and responsibly scale. In 2021, she became the inaugural Director of the new ANU School of Cybernetics, which builds on the foundational work of the 3A Institute and seeks to establish cybernetics as an important tool for navigating major societal transformations, through capability building, policy development and safe, sustainable and responsible approaches to new systems.
In addition to her roles at the ANU and Intel, Genevieve was also a Non-Executive Director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Board (January 2019-October 2023) and is currently a Member of the Prime Minister's National Science and Technology Council, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH), Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, SRI International Engelbart Distinguished Fellow, member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) AI Council and an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Publications
- Bell, G 2021, '#COVIDTIMES: Social experiments, liminality and the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 154, pp. 60-68.
- Bell, G, Gould, M, Martin, B et al. 2021, 'Do more data equal more truth? Toward a cybernetic approach to data', Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 213-222.
- Bell, G 2021, 'Pandemic Passages: An Anthropological Account of Life and Liminality during COVID-19', Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 79-84.
- Bell, G, Broad, E, Martin, B et al. 2021, 'Gender and Artificial Intelligence', in Hilary Callan (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 1-11.
- Williams, E, Tavakoli Nabavi, E, Bell, G et al. 2020, 'Begin with the human: Designing for safety and trustworthiness in cyber-physical systems', in W F Lawless, R Mittue & D A Sofge (ed.), Human-Machine Shared Contexts, Academic Press - Elsevier, London, pp. 341-357.
- Bell, G, Andrejevic, M, Barry, C et al. 2020, What motivates people to download and continue to use the COVIDSafe app?.
- Walsh, T, Levy, N, Bell, G et al. 2019, The Effective and Ethical Development of Artificial Intelligence: An Opportunity to Improve Our Wellbeing.
- Pink, S, Hjorth, L, Horst, H et al 2018, 'Digital work and play: Mobile technologies and new ways of feeling at home', European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 26-38.
- Bell, G 2018, 'Making life: a brief history of human-robot interaction', Consumption Markets & Culture, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 22-41pp.
- Bell, G, Hjorth, L, Horst, H et al. 2017, 'Chapter One: Introduction', in Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway & Genevieve Bell (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, USA..
- Hjorth, L, Horst, H, Galloway, A et al, eds, 2017, The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, USA..
- Bell, G 2016, 'Locating the Mobile: Intergenerational locative media in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne', in Fran Martin, Tania Lewis (ed.), Lifestyle Media in Asia, Routledge, New York, USA..
- Bell, G 2016, 'Digital kinships: Intergenerational locative media in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne', in Larissa Hjorth and Olivia Khoo (ed.), Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, London, United Kingdom, pp. 251-262pp.
- Bell, G 2015, 'The Secret Life of Data', in Tom Boellstorff and Bill Maurer (ed.), Data: Now Bigger and Better!, Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago, USA.
- Bell, G 2014, 'Talking about the future: People, technology and innovation', 30th Annual Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM), IEEE Explore, Online, pp. 1pp.
- Dourish, P & Bell, G 2014, '"Resistance is futile": reading science fiction alongside ubiquitous computing', Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 769-778pp.
- Bell, G 2011, Life, death, and the iPad: cultural symbols and Steve Jobs, pp. 24-25pp.
- Dourish, P & Bell, G 2011, Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Bell, G 2011, Unpacking Cars: Doing Anthropology At Intel, pp. 1-6pp.
- Zafiroglu, A, Bell, G & Healey, J 2011, '(C)archeology : Car Turns Outs & Automobility', 3rd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, ACM, New York, USA., pp. 49-50pp.
- Zafiroglu, A, Plowman, T, Healey, J et al 2011, 'The Ethnographic (U)Turn: Local Experiences of Automobility', 3rd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, ACM, New York, USA., pp. 47-48pp.
- Bell, G & Johnson, B 2011, Watching Viewers, pp. 1pp.