Politics & International Studies » Previous Research (and Ethics Advisory work)

SIIP

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:24:00 GMT

Creating technology that identifies anonymous speakers captured in lawfully intercepted calls.

Project timescales: 2014-2018

PETRAS

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:21:00 GMT

Investigating the challenges associated with privacy, security, and trust in the Internet of Things (IoT).

HECTOS: Harmonized Evaluation, Certification and Testing of Security Products

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:48:00 GMT

HECTOS, a project funded under the EC FP7 security research programme brought together 9 leading organizations from across Europe to study how existing evaluation and certification schemes used in other areas could be used, adapted or developed for products used for physical security of people, property and infrastructure.

Project timescales: 2014-2018

EASEL

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:48:00 GMT

EASEL explored and developed a theoretical understanding of human-robot symbiotic interaction (HRSI) where symbiosis is defined as the capacity of the robot and the person to mutually influence each other, and alter each other’s behaviour over different time-scales (for instance, within encounters and across encounters).

FASTPASS

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:47:42 GMT

The FastPass project proposes to answer complicated and conflicting questions. Funded by the European 7^th Framework Programme, FastPass has gathered during 4 years key players of the entire ABC value chain – system and component producers, research institutions, governmental authorities, infrastructure operator, and end-users – to develop a novel, modular, and harmonised solution.

How do we ensure responsible lending and borrowing?

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:45:49 GMT

This project responded to findings from the 2012-2016 AHRC project, FinCris. It focused on access to affordable credit for low and moderate income communities. It engaged with UK Credit Unions and trade associations to develop innovative and creative strategies for implementing responsible lending practices and products.

Project timescales: 2017

UNDERWARE: UNDERstanding West African culture to pRevent cybercrimEs

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:44:38 GMT

Working with colleagues in WMG, the overall objective of UNDERWARE was to gain a greater understanding of West African culture in order to:

Scientifically evaluate current methods employed to prevent and deter cybercrime that emanates from West Africa
Develop and test new methods to prevent and deter cybercrime (that emanates from this region)

Project timescales: 2016-2017

X-Phi: Experimental Philosophy and Empirical Ethics

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:43:03 GMT

X-Phi was an AHRC-funded research project that aimed to improve our understanding of early modern experimental philosophy and to assess the viability of the methodological outlook underpinning early modern and recent attempts to build an empirical science of ethics.

Project timescales: 2014-2017

Ethics and Rights in a Security Context

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:41:51 GMT

The primary aim of this integration project was to use cross-cutting ethical themes to connect the seven successful projects in the PaCCS Ethics and Security Call, and to communicate their results to a policy, practitioner, and wider public, audience.

Project timescales: 2014-2016

AIO: Assuming Identities Online - description, development and ethical implications

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:40:35 GMT

This research aimed to bridge the gap between complex theories of the discursive constructions of online identities, and the computational approaches to analysing online communications.

The objectives were to examine the relationship between linguistic style and online identity performance, build on previous work to improve training in undercover online investigations and to systematically identify the ethical risks of using the above analysis or investigation, arrest and prosecution.

Project timescales: 2014-2016