Our remit is global and our interests correspondingly wide. The below are indicative rather than fully comprehensive questions of relevance for our work and are arranged into ten overlapping categories.
The dynamic nature of world events and diplomatic work around them mean that we often need research based insights to help anticipate, shape, manage and benefit from unfolding developments and possible futures. The synthesised expertise of researchers can help us make judgements in a policy environment where experimental trials and replicable results are often impossible or inappropriate.
Because time can be of the essence we value emerging results and insights shared via updates, short events, websites and similar, in advance of peer reviewed articles.
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FCO Areas of research interest coronavirus COVID 19 update May 2020 GOVUK
The REsearch centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial INfluence online (REPHRAIN) will bring together the UK's substantial academic, industry, policy and third sector capabilities to address the current tensions...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: University of Bristol
The project partially answers the question as it focuses on privacy concerns and online harms, but does not specifically mention digital contact tracing apps.
Building privacy, trust and security into the evolving digital ecosystem is broadly recognized as a key societal challenge. Regulatory activities in the US, Europe and Japan are complemented by industry initiatives that ...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Imperial College London
The project partially answers the question as it addresses privacy-aware infrastructure for managing personal data, but does not specifically mention digital contact tracing apps.
Identity and privacy have recently rarely been out of the headlines. Government has justified the need to identify citizens and track behaviour or security reasons, and promoted data sharing with the promise of the benef...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
The project partially answers the question as it focuses on understanding the value of personal data and stakeholders' perception, but does not specifically mention digital contact tracing apps.