Ranjit Singh
He/Him
Senior Researcher, Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab , Data & Society
Ranjit Singh is a senior researcher at Data & Society, focused on qualitative research for the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab (AIMLab). With a particular focus on research equity, he also helps guide research ethics at the Data & Society Research Institute and develop equitable research practices both internally and with external partners.
His research sits at the intersection of data infrastructures, majority world scholarship, and public policy for algorithmic systems, and uses methods of interview-based qualitative sociology and multi-sited ethnography. His work broadly examines the everyday experiences of people subject to data-driven practices and follows the mutual shaping of their lives and their data records, aiming to understand how data is increasingly used to imagine and develop new digital solutions for democratizing inclusion.