Celebrating Success: Dr Karen Elliott

Karen Elliott, Associate Professor at Newcastle University Business School and her colleague in Computer Science, Professor Aad Van Morsel are very visible promoters of FinTech and have secured a £1.2m research project related to FinTrust, Ethics and AI, which they will work on with Atom Bank.

Via this work the Business School has built up strong collaborations within the FinTech industry and associated academic networks including FinTech North, the FinTech National Network, Fdata, Open Banking, the NE FinTech Ecosystem, TUS Park and various other contacts across Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland. Internationally, there has been collaboration with the Portugal FinTech House, Georgia Atlanta FinTech Academy and IBM via an IEEE working party. The current work surrounding the production of an ethical toolkit for technology-based firms has helped demonstrate the relevance of the university’s garnering trust and ethical protocols across many different applications and industries together with co-created objectives. This has created considerable excitement around the research. In particular, with the UK FinTech ecosystems to co-create an industry standard and social license to operate in the FinTech sector.

Dr Karen Elliott has also recently been nominated by industry colleagues for the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Top 35 Award.