On 8th June 2016 Kat Hadjimatheou and Christopher Nathan hosted a workshop in collaboration with the College of Policing to explore fundamental questions about the practice of undercover policing in the UK. A full report, including recommendations that arose from the meeting, is available here.

Christopher Nathan and Francesca Melhuish organised a workshop on ‘The Ethics of Intelligence’ on 6th May 2016, with funds from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the ESRC. Among the speakers was Tom Sorell of the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group, who talked on the topic of ‘Angela Merkel’s Telephone’ and the ethics of states intruding upon one another. The other speakers were Richard Aldrich (Warwick) on 'Does Intelligence Make the World Safer?’; Kira Vrist Rønn (Copenhagen) and Adam Diderichsen (Danish National Police College) on 'Just War Theory as a Framework for Intelligence Ethics’; Adam Diderichsen on ‘Intelligence and its Legitimacy Crisis’; Simon Willmetts (Hull) on ‘21st Century Orwells: Privacy, Transparency and the Ethics of Surveillance in Contemporary Digital Dystopias’; and Ross Bellaby (Sheffield) on ‘Only Guilty People Hide: The Dark-Net and Cyber-Intelligence: Legitimating Surveillance or Legitimating Resistance’.