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'Business and Encryption' workshop at CSaP

11 July 2016

On June 8th, together with Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy and supported by Cambridge's ESRC IAA programme, I hosted a workshop on 'The intersection of business and encryption, and the implications for practice and policy.' As described on the CSaP website: " CSaP worked with Dr Ella McPherson, a Lecturer in the...

The Whistle featured in IPF article

11 July 2016

The Whistle , the human rights reporting app development project that comes out of this project's research, was recently featured by the IPF. The IPF is a youth media project that aims to ' empower the next generation of journalists to tell the stories that they think should make it onto the news agenda.' Freelance...

Chapter on 'Digital Human Rights Reporting by Civilian Witnesses' published

30 September 2015

I'm very happy to have a chapter in Rebecca Lind's 2nd volume of 'Produsing Theory in a Digital World,' which was just published by Peter Lang. Here's the abstract: Last November, a YouTube video portraying a young boy rescuing an even younger girl from what seemed to be a hail of bullets went viral and hit the headlines...

Contribution to Policy Challenges Briefing on Data Science

9 September 2015

Anne Alexander , Co-ordinator of Cambridge's Digital Humanities Network, and I contributed a piece, 'Social Media Data Is Not Directly Representative of Facts Offline,' to the Policy Challenges Briefing on Data Science published by the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy in conjunction with the ' Policy-...

Encryption, Anonymity, and Human Rights Workshop co-hosted by CGHR and Amnesty International

9 September 2015

Encryption, Anonymity & Human Rights: Workshop Summary By Rebekah Larsen and Ella McPherson On 29 June 2015, the Centre of Governance & Human Rights (CGHR) and Amnesty International ’s Technology and Human Rights team co-hosted an exploratory workshop on encryption, anonymity, and human rights. Given that...

Ethics of Big Data CRASSH Research Group to be launched in 2015-16

2 August 2015

Together with Anne Alexander (Cambridge Digital Humanities Network), Clare Dyer-Smith (Cambridge Big Data Strategic Research Initiative) Nicole Janz (Social Sciences Research Methods Centre), Richard Milne (Institute of Public Health/PHG Foundation), and Jatinder Singh (Computing Laboratory), I am happy to announce that we...

Co-authored article on social media and the human rights crisis in Mexico published in Red Pepper magazine

18 May 2015

Global Justice Now just published the article that colleague Mónica Moreno Figueroa and I co-authored for the March 2015 edition of Red Pepper magazine on its blog. In ' More smoke and mirrors: State apathy towards enforced disappearance of students outrages Mexico ,' we address the current human rights crisis in Mexico...

IAA funding secured to develop 'The Whistle' prototype

1 April 2015

I'm delighted that The Whistle , a digital human rights reporting platform for civilian witnesses currently in concept stage, has received funding from Cambridge's ESRC Impact Acceleration Account . This funding will support a project manager and a programmer, and we aim to launch a beta version in September.

CGHR student research team's 'ICTs and Human Rights' web resource launched

16 February 2015

As part of the ‘ ICTs and Right to Life’ project that we’ve been working on at Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights, a student team has assembled a multi-authored Tumblr blog aggregating their research into technologies, tactics, and case studies of the use of ICTs in human rights work. The student team is...

Talk on ethics of social media research for University of the Arts London and Association for Research Ethics

19 November 2014

The Association for Research Ethics and the University of the Arts London collaborated on a pilot workshop on integrity and ethics in arts research inspired by the Concordat to Support Research Integrity. Hearing about research ethics from the disciplinary perspective of the arts was fascinating; I talked about the ethics...

'Business and Encryption' workshop at CSaP

The Whistle featured in IPF article

Chapter on 'Digital Human Rights Reporting by Civilian Witnesses' published

Contribution to Policy Challenges Briefing on Data Science

Encryption, Anonymity, and Human Rights Workshop co-hosted by CGHR and Amnesty International

Ethics of Big Data CRASSH Research Group to be launched in 2015-16

Co-authored article on social media and the human rights crisis in Mexico published in Red Pepper magazine

IAA funding secured to develop 'The Whistle' prototype

CGHR student research team's 'ICTs and Human Rights' web resource launched

Talk on ethics of social media research for University of the Arts London and Association for Research Ethics

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