ACCESS welcomes Anita Lateano and Rory Murphy!

Published on 13 November 2025

We are very pleased to welcome Anita Lateano (University of Westminster) and Rory Murphy (University of Exeter) to the ACCESS Team.

Anita and Rory both join ACCESS as Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellows.

Anita Lateano’s PhD research combines ethnographic and arts-based methodologies to explore how coral reef conservation practices in Bunaken National Park, Indonesia, are enacted across communities, governments, NGOs and the reef itself. She will be supporting the Environmental Social Science in Interdisciplinary Working project, led by Birgitta Gatersleben (University of Surrey).

Rory Murphy is an interdisciplinary social scientist researching ethical and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence and AI-powered technologies. He will be supporting the Environmentally Just AI: Examining AI’s environmental impacts through environmental social science project, led by Sarah Hartley (University of Exeter).