Dan McQuillan is Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He holds a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics. Before becoming an academic he was Director of E-communications for Amnesty International, Head of Digital for Make Your Mark, and Head of Digital for Media for Development. He is co-founder of Social Innovation Camp and he is the science & technical lead for the citizen science project Science for Change Kosovo. His research subjects include data luddism, algorithms & Hannah Arendt, data science and phrenology, auditing algorithms.