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...
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Posted Oct 9th 2023
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...
Posted Oct 3rd 2023
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...
Posted Sep 30th 2023
Stuart Kerr is a PhD student at Coventry University, under the supervision of Assistant Professor Evronia Azer and Professor Sally Dibb. His research project is on Technologically-enabled monitoring, privacy and datafication of UK homeworkers.
Stuart has a long-standing interest in optimal performance management that has grown...
Posted Sep 12th 2023
The 2023 European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) Permanent Study Group 1: eGovernance Best Paper Award has been awared to Isabelle Fest from Utrecht University for her paper titled 'The doings behind data: An ethnography of police data'. The award is sponsored by IOS Press and Information Polity, and celebrates the written work of early career scholars.
Congratulations Isabelle...
Posted Aug 8th 2023
Was Rahman is a PhD student at Coventry University, under the supervision of Professors Sally Dibb and Maureen Meadows. His PhD investigates AI fairness in business decision-making.
Was has a long-standing professional and academic interest in how we enable, assure and govern ethical use of technologies, especially those that evolve more quickly than laws and regulations controlling...
Posted Aug 8th 2023
CSI-COP, funded under the EU Horizon2020 ‘science with and for society (SwafS)’ programme, is a citizen science project coordinated by Coventry University.
The international project involves engaging the general public through a free informal education course, ‘Your Right to Privacy Online’ (MOOC), to investigating GDPR compliance in...
Posted Aug 8th 2023
Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance
By Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
CRISP edited Routledge Studies in Surveillance Book Series
Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. This...
Posted May 31st 2023
A new researcher has joined CRISP St Andrews, Dr Aisling Crean. Aisling is a Digital Education Developer at the Centre for Educational Enhancement and Development (CEED) at the University of St Andrews. She works across the University on the development of adaptive (or 'personalised') and immersive learning at St Andrews. She is interested in a range of ethical and political issues bound up...
Posted May 30th 2023
On 6 - 11 January 2024 the Arab Center for Research and Policy studies (ARCPS) is hosting their Fifth Annual Winter School. The School is open to PhD students and Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities whose work addresses issues of surveillance, censorship, manipulation and control in social media. The School’s concept note can be read in...