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Carla Washbourne to Chair UN-Habitat Global Urban Observatory Network (GUO-Net) Steering Committee

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:07:00 GMT

Carla Washbourne, Reader at CIM, has been re-appointed to chair the 2025-27 Steering Committee of UN-Habitat's Global Urban Observatory Network (GUO-Net).

New article on data sharing behaviour and personalised health advice

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:55:00 GMT

Carla Washbourne (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies) and collaborators from University College London and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have published a new article in Data & Policy: "Behavioural perspectives on personal health data sharing and app design: an international survey study".

👉 Read more on the Cambridge Core blog: https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/02/apps-are-making-personalised-health-advice-possible-but-what-do-people-think-about-their-privacy-risks/
📑 Related research article in Data & Policy: https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2025.10032
🔓 Code and data open on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/16637368

New report launch: Improving urban policy design and delivery in the City of Santiago, Chile

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:25:00 GMT

The Governor of Santiago, Claudio Orrego, has launched the result of a year-long study by LSE Cities to improve urban policy design and delivery of Chile’s leading metropolitan region. CIM's Carla Washbourne contributed to this study as an international urban expert in the LSE Santiago Urban Age Task Force. Read more here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7354463971808026626/

New cyber policy papers from the Scaling Trust project

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:01:00 GMT

The ‘Scaling Trust’ project is a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship examining trust in the cyber security profession. As the initial period of funding comes to an end, CIM academics Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio have published two policy papers that engage with current challenges in cyber security.

‘Assurance by Principle: Preparing for the next generation of technology assurance’ is a report by Matt Spencer, published through the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS). It provides a series of recommendations for moving technology assurance policy away from prescriptive standards, and towards the new ‘goal-based’ approach that has become influential in cyber policy.

‘Deperimeterising Zero Trust: Challenging metaphors in information security’ is a policy brief by Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio, part of the University of Warwick’s Policy Briefing Series. It examines current challenges with the trend towards a ‘Zero Trust’ paradigm for information security, and draws conclusions aimed at industry, government and academia.