Science and analysis play a crucial role in providing the best evidence base to inform policy, and showing the best way forward within a given policy framework. The Home Office’s operational work covers travel and the border, working with the vast majority who comply with the rules and with those that may not: controlling and managing the border; administering passports, visas and asylum applications; applying and enforcing immigration rules.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Areas of research interest relevant to the Home Office GOVUK
We live in a technological age in which we can use our voice as a password to access online banking, and our children can pay for school lunches with a fingerprint. Biometrics, which reflect our physiological or behaviou...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Southampton
The project addresses the use of biometrics to assure identity and mitigate deception of systems, and the authors have the necessary expertise.
Biometric recognition for human identification and verification (using modalities such as face, iris and fingerprint) is an increasingly attractive and practically viable way to improve system security for a range of app...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Kent
The project focuses on usability assessment of biometric systems, which is partially relevant to the question.
The promise of biometric technologies in offering security through automated person authentication and recognition has meant that increasingly they are seen as important components in the overall approach to security and...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Kent
The project does not directly address the question.