Oliver Bates is currently a computer scientist and user researcher with the School of Computing and Communications (SCC), Lancaster, U.K. His background is in Ubicomp, HCI, and data science. His passion for social and climate justice has led to research on projects such as designing for gig economy worker empowerment (Switch-Gig, FlipGig), collaborative and sustainable last-mile logistics (FTC2050), and utilizing IoT and data in the context of net zero commercial energy (Net0i). He is the corresponding author of this article. Contact him at o.bates@lancaster.ac.uk.