The new UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training on Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing has launched its first call for applications for fully funded PhD studentships.
CRISP Director, Dr Lachlan Urquhart, is an investigator and part of the management team for this new £9.75m Centre hosted at the University of Edinburgh.
The CDT will have the first cohort of students...
Following the CRISP panel at CPDP earlier this year, public philosopher Judith Zoë approached recent CRISP PhD graduate Anuj Puri to interview him for episode 4 of her podcast, The Digital Period. The Podcast is a series of philosophical conversations with experts and individuals about period tracking apps. It is part of a broader public philosophy project with the...
Trans-European Dialogues (TED) are series of scholarly conferences on timely topics of public administration, jointly organised by the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) and the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee). TED2024 is high level conference bringing together senior public administration experts – academics and...
Richard Kjellgren recently successfully defended his PhD, titled “Dark Spaces of Precarity”: Networks and Complexity in the Off-Street Sex Market, which was completed at the University of Stirling, and supervised by Dr Niall Hamilton-Smith and Dr Dave Griffiths. His PhD explored the role of technology in facilitating exploitation in the UK’s internet-mediated off-street sex market, and...
The AI Safety Summit’s Bletchley Declaration(2) is a timely contribution to current – and future – debates about how and why the several forms of artificial intelligence (AI) should be regulated. Signed by 29 countries (including the collective entity of the European Union), its heart is in the right place in terms of the goal of ensuring that AI innovations are...
Join colleagues at Erasmus University in April 2024 to engage in thought-provoking discussions that explore the intricate relationship between surveillance, chilling impacts, new technologies, and their consequences
The widespread integration of AI into surveillance technologies within the realm of public safety has become increasingly prevalent, exemplified by the likes of biometric...
Independent report on changes to the functions of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commisoner arising from the Data Protections and Digital Innovation (No.2) Bill 2023. By Professor Pete Fussey and Professor William Webster.
Press Release from the Biometrucs and Surevillance Camera Commisioner:
A new report points to a ‘worrying vacuum’ in government plans to safeguard...
Tianqi Bi is a new PhD student at the University of Edinburgh Law School working on designing trustworthy ways of sharing data. She is supervised by Dr Lachlan Urquhart and Professor John Vines. Her research involves cross-disciplinary aspects of data law and interaction design. She aims to explore how to take citizens' digital rights from theory to reality and facilitate trustworthy data...
Mariana Canto is a PhD Candidate at the University of Stirling where she is part of the interdisciplinary cluster on Democracy, Human Rights and Communication/Advocacy in the Digital Age and is supervised by Dr. Damian Etone, Dr. Professor William Webster, Professor Rowan Cruft, and Dr Edit Freyo. She investigates how the recent increase in scrutiny regarding legal mechanisms to control the...
This new report presents research from the ‘Critically Exploring Biometric AI Futures’ project. This short project was led by CRISP Director Dr Lachlan Urquhart at the University of Edinburgh with co-lead and CRISP Member Dr Diana Miranda at the University of Stirling, and a research team of Dr Irena Connon (University of Stirling) and Dr Alex Laffer (now University of Winchester).
The...
