Kathleen Bryson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow · De Montfort University · company speakers →

<p>Kathleen Bryson is a Senior Research Fellow investigating EU virtual reality ethics. She received her PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology at UCL in 2017, where she later taught Extraterrestrial Anthropology. Originally from Alaska, she holds an MA in Independent Film (LCP/University of the Arts London) and two BA degrees in Anthropology and Swedish, respectively (University of Washington). She has held postdoctoral positions at University of Oxford, Queen Mary University of London and De Montfort as a Horizon Europe Research Fellow, co-creating the Good Enough Ethics framework with XR project <a href="http://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/fNs2CA6nKFNp7q2JsncrSGdRPB?domain=sharespace.eu">SHARESPACE.EU</a>. Her creative work often explores space/evolutionary themes, including four feature films and a 2019 solo painting exhibition at the Royal Institution called Once Upon a Spacetime. She is the author of three novels with a fourth &ndash; a evolutionary science fiction thriller &ndash; just signed to Black Spring Press. She additionally has had five nonfiction evolutionary/AI ethics books published or forthcoming from Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Pan Macmillan and others. She recently has been featured in both Forbes (<a href="https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/vyeiClROEI2Rg4pqf9hrSzWORP?domain=forbes.com" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2025/08/25/why-evolution-will-work-against-interstellar-civilizations</a>) and Popular Mechanics (<a href="https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/tZBlCnRZ6I79MBjpcZs5SJj0tN?domain=popularmechanics.com" target="_blank">https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a69414156/humanity-going-interstellar/</a>) explaining evolutionary issues with speculative long-term space travel.</p>

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