Blog

  • Dec092020

    A shadow pandemic of domestic violence: The potential role of job loss and unemployment benefits

    By

    This blog by Sonia Bhalotra originally appeared on VoxEU website on 13 November 2020. There has been a global surge…

    Read more
  • Nov302020

    Unmasking Covid: Inequalities, Innovations and Impact

    By

    Wednesday 2 December 2020 1:00 – 4:30pm Register for online event here   Staff and students from the Tavistock and…

    Read more
  • Nov162020

    Mapping people, knowledge and data in times of Crisis

    By

    20 November 2020, 6.00pm – 7.30pm Hosted by Damien Short (ICwS, University of London) and presented by the School of…

    Read more
  • Oct292020

    Surveillance Arbitration in the Era of Digital Policing

    By

    In their latest article, published in Theoretical Criminology (29 October 2020), Professor Pete Fussey and Dr Ajay Sandhu analyse the…

    Read more
  • Oct132020

    ‘Assisted’ Facial Recognition and the Reinvention of Suspicion and Discretion in Digital Policing

    By

    Automated facial recognition (AFR) surveillance has emerged as a particularly controversial technology among the growing armoury of digital policing tools. …

    Read more
  • Sep112020

    Essex Expertise Informs Facial Recognition Decision

    By

    The expertise and leading-edge research of three Essex academics has informed a landmark judgment on police use of facial recognition.…

    Read more
  • Sep012020

    AI’s Role in COVID-19 Poses Human Rights Risks Beyond Privacy

    By

    Blog written by Carmel Williams. It should come as no surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) is being positioned as significant to…

    Read more
  • Aug042020

    The ‘Uberization of Policing’? How Police Negotiate and Operationalise Predictive Policing Technology

    By

    Predictive policing generally refers to police work that utilises strategies, algorithmic technologies, and big data to generate near-future predictions about…

    Read more
  • Jul082020

    Policy Briefing on the Escalation of Domestic Violence During the Covid-19 Related Lockdown

    By

    Social distancing in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic has led to millions of families the world over being…

    Read more
  • Jun222020

    A Conversation with U.N. Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed: Covid 19 and Freedom of Belief

    By

    This interview first appeared in Just Security on 18 June 2020. Ryan Goodman, Just Security‘s co-editor-in-chief, recently posed a series of…

    Read more