Keeley Crockett SMIEEE SFHEA is a Professor in Computational Intelligence at Manchester Metropolitan University She has over 27 years’ experience of research and development in Ethical and responsible AI (for both SME’s and an advocate for citizen voice), computational intelligence algorithms and applications, including adaptive psychological profiling, fuzzy systems, semantic similarity, and dialogue systems. Keeley has led work on Place based practical Artificial Intelligence, facilitating a parliamentary inquiry with Policy Connect and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics (APGDA), leading to the inquiry report “Our Place Our Data: Involving Local People in Data and AI-Based Recovery”. She was a steering committee member for the Policy Connect and UK Parliamentary Inquiry on Skills in the Age of AI launched in June 2025.  She is one of the five EPSRC Public Engagement Champions and currently the PI on the EPSRC “PEAs in Pods: Co-production of community based public engagement for data and AI research.” Keeley was one on the Founders of the People Panel for AI, funded originally by The Alan Turing Institute and in 2024 by Manchester City Council. She is the academic AI lead for the UKRI funded Centre for Digital Innovation and is working on several Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnerships with private and public sector. Keeley was a collaborator on the AI Playbook for the UK Government. She is also part of the International Agentic AI Safety Experts Focus Group which includes the development of the Guidelines for Agentic AI Safety Volume 1&2 (2024, 2025). Keeley is a member of  UKRI’s AI & Robotics Strategic Advisory Team and the EPSRC SAN on EDI,  an elected member of the IEEE Computational intelligence Society ADCOM (2023-25). She currently Chairs the new IEEE CIS AI Ethics Education and Awareness (AEEA) Taskforce.