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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

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

Shoaib Sufi, Aleksandra Nenadic, Raniere Silva, Beth Duckles, Iveta Simera, Jennifer A. de Beyer, Caroline Struthers, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Louisa Bellis, Wadud Miah, Adriana Wilde, Iain Emsley, Olivier Philippe, Melissa Balzano, Sara Coelho, Heather Ford, Catherine Jones & Vanessa Higgins, 2018, PLoS Computational Biology, 14(8), 1-12
Type: letterEditorial
2018, Sustainability (Switzerland), 10(8)
Type: article
Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Henry Pearce & Niko Tsakalakis, 2018, Computer Law and Security Review: The International Journal of Technology Law and Practice, 34(4), 784-805
Type: article
Gefion Thuermer & Adriana Wilde, 2018
Type: conference