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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

Ramine Tinati, Leslie Carr, Susan Halford & Catherine Pope, 2013
Type: conference
Joel E. Fischer, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Michael A. Osborne, Oliver Parson, Trung Dong Huynh, Muddasser Alam, Nadia Pantidi, Stuart Moran, Khaled Bachour, Steven Reece, Enrico Costanza, Tom Rodden & Nicholas R. Jennings, 2013
Type: conference
Simon Keay, Graeme Earl, Gareth Beale, Nathan Davis, Jessica Ogden, Kristian Strutt, Fabrizio Felici, Martin Millett, Steve Kay & Roberta Cascino, 2013
Type: bookChapter