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Web Science Institute

Publications and policy papers

Read publications on our research and analysis, including policy papers that sum up recent developments in web science, data science and artificial intelligence.

Policy papers

Democracy online: technologies for democratic deliberation by Adam Meylan-Stevenson, Ben Hawes and Matt Ryan (2024)

Can the internet be designed to protect democracy and human rights? by Ben Hawes, Adam Meylan-Stevenson and Matt Ryan (2024)

Government policy on AI: what should the next administration focus on? by Ben Hawes and Wendy Hall (2024) 

Making AI work for everyone: join the global conversation by Ben Hawes and Wendy Hall (2024)

After the Summit: progress in public policy on AI, by Ben Hawes and Wendy Hall (2023)

Can artificial intelligence be used to undermine elections?, by Ben Hawes, Wendy Hall and Matt Ryan (2023)

Web 3: the promise and the reality, by Ben Hawes, Wendy Hall, Bill Thompson and Kieron O'Hara (2023)

Making smart fair: building inclusive, fair and sustainable transport for cities of the future, by Roger Tyers and Pauline Leonard (2020)

A blueprint for a social data foundation: accelerating trustworthy and collaborative data sharing for health and social care transformation, by Michael Boniface, Laura Carmichael, Wendy Hall, Brian Pickering, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon and Steve Taylor (2020)

Data trusts: ethics, architecture and governance for trustworthy data stewardship, by Kieron O'Hara (2019)

Building trust through data foundations: a call for a data governance model to support trustworthy data sharing, by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Alexsis Wintour and Laura Carmichael (2019)

Research publications

2017, Higher Education Policy, 30(1), 105–122
Type: article
Hannah Harvey, Hayward J. Godwin, Gemma Fitzsimmons, Simon P. Liversedge & Robin Walker, 2017, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 43(3), 518-536
Type: article
Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon & Alison Knight, 2017, Wisconsin International Law Journal, 34(2), 284-322
Type: article
2017
Type: conference