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Visiting Senior Fellow, RoRI and Assistant Professor in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Birmingham

Justyna Bandola-Gill is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Her research sits at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and Public Policy, exploring how knowledge is produced, evaluated, and applied in decision-making contexts. 

Justyna’s work focuses on two interconnected areas. The first examines the use of evidence in policymaking, with a particular interest in how emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, are reconfiguring the relationship between science and policy. 

The second area of her research focuses on contemporary practices of research evaluation. She is interested in how institutions assess academic work, with a focus on research impact, the role of metrics and indicators, and assessment experiments such as narrative CVs. Her work considers both the practical and cultural implications of these evaluation systems, examining how they shape academic practice, incentive structures, and the broader research ecosystem. 

Justyna is currently a UKRI AI Metascience Fellow, leading a project titled “Transforming Evidence Synthesis: AI and the (R)evolution of the Evidence Ecosystem.”  The project explores how AI transforms the production of evidence for policy, reshapes professional norms and career paths of experts, and redefines the interactions between science and policymaking through emerging AI evidence infrastructures. 

She is currently co-leading the AI and Sustainability research theme at the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action.