Brian Tarran

Brian Tarran is senior research and statistics editor within the British Film Institute’s Research and Statistics Unit and a member of the CoSTAR Foresight Lab, which is researching the adoption, use and impact of new technologies in games, film, TV, performance and digital entertainment. He is co-author (with Angus Finney and Rishi Coupland) of AI in the Screen Sector: Perspectives and Paths Forward, the first UK-wide exploration of the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the UK’s screen sector. Brian is the former head of data science platform at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), founding editor of Real World Data Science, and former editor of Significance Magazine, a joint publication of the RSS, the American Statistical Association and the Statistical Society of Australia. Prior to joining the RSS, he was editor of Research-Live.com and founding editor of Impact magazine, both published by the Market Research Society.