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Today the Data Justice Lab launches the website https://www.datafiedsociety.org/. Published together with our report on Civic Participation in the Datafied Society, the site explores different ways in which the public can raise their voice and have a say in decisions...

On June 28th Ina Sander and Jess Brand presented some of Sander's and the Data Justice Lab's research on critical data literacy at the National Association of Data Protection Officer's (NADPO) monthly research webinar. The presentation outlined research...

The biennial Data Power Conference is one of the most important events in our field, and so we're thrilled that several Lab members will join the conference this year and discuss their research. The conference will be held over the course of three days - 22-25 June -...

We are very happy that Dr Wen Ma has been awarded a prestigious ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Wen recently completed her PhD in which she investigated public responses to the Chinese Social Credit Score and explored implications for internet uses and, specifically,...

We were happy to welcome Visiting Fellow Lisa Reutter to the Lab in January and February. Lisa is a PhD fellow at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She researches the datafication of public...

Check out this new video about uses of data analytics and practices of citizen scoring in the public sector in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvOFaxU7r4

We are delighted to announce that we have received a new grant from the Open Society Foundations to support the work of the lab over the next two years. We will use the grant to continue our work on the social justice implications of datafication, with a particular...

The 2nd Data Justice Conference took place on 20-21 May 2021 under the title Civic Participation in the Datafied Society. Over 1300 particcipants registered for the free online event that included 2 days of live sessions as well as pre-recorded presentations, a book...

The Data Justice Lab has published a guidebook for the public sector to support efforts in advancing civic participation in the roll-out of data analytics systems in delivering public services. As part of our project Towards Democratic Auditing and with input from the...

As mentioned during the recent Data Justice conference, following the success of the special issue from the first Data Justice conference we have organised a special issue with the International Journal of Communication (IJoC) based on the conference proceedings on...

The programme has been finalised and we're getting ready for the second Data Justice Conference - Civic Participation in the Datfied Society. We'll have a packed 2-day programme with live sessions, recorded presentations, academic papers, workshops, a cultural events,...

The preliminary programme of our second Data Justice conference - Civic Participation in the Datafied Society - is ready! The conference will include both live sessions and pre-recorded presentations. You can find the live programme...