Current projects and publications

Dawes Centre for Future Crime

Research lead: Professor Shane Johnson
Department: Security and Crime Sciences (Faculty of Engineering Sciences)

• Policy brief: AI-enabled future crime 

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• Policy brief: How secure is consumer IoT 

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• Policy brief: Challenges of preventing counterfeit goods 

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• Policy brief: Cryptocurrencies and future crime 

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• Policy brief: Synthetic biology and future crime 

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• Policy brief: Older people as victims of online financial crime 

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Plastic Waste Innovation Hub

Research Lead: Professor Mark Miodownik
Department: Mechanical Engineering

• Policy brief: Compostable plastics
• Policy Brief: Big compost
• Accessible web version of Big Compost policy brief
• Policy brief: Food waste recycling behaviours

Future Targeted Healthcare Manufacturing Hub

Research lead: Professor Nigel Titchener-Hooker
Department: Biochemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering Sciences)

• Policy brief: Manufacturing Biological Medicines
• Case study in 'The Future of Manufacturing: Advancing Manufacturing in the Fourth Industrial Revolution' by the APPG on the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Workshop report: Point-of-Care Manufacture: Regulatory Opportunities and Challenges for Advanced Biotherapeutics
• Policy brief: Point-of-care manufacture of advanced therapies: readiness measures for hospitals, companies, and regulatory agencies
• Workshop report: Sustainable practices in personalised medicine manufacture

Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional Surgical Sciences (WEISS)

• Policy brief: AI, Surgery and Inequalities

Gender-IoT 

Research lead: Dr Leonie Tanczer
Department: Computer Science

• Policy brief: Tech abuse
• Briefing: Futureproofing Online Harms legislation

Global Disability Innovation Hub

Research Lead: Professor Catherine Holloway
Department: Computer Science

• Policy brief: Powering Inclusion: Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Technology
• Comprehensive Spending Review 2020 - Submission to  HM Treasury on behalf of the GDI Hub

Institute of Healthcare Engineering

Research Lead: Professor Rebecca Shipley
Department: Across FES

Futures Forum on Health Inequalities

• Futures Forum on Health Inequalities

  Futures Forum on Health Inequalities

  Futures Forum on Health Inequalities (accessible version)

  Futures Forum on Health Inequalities (accessible version)

UCL Ventura CPAP initiative

• Case study in 'Fourth Industrial Revolution response to Covid-19' report by the APPG on the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Healthy ageing projects

•  Why should we design age-friendly homes?  (accessible version)
•  Why do we need healthy and active spaces?  (accessible version)
•  What can we do to improve the management of common conditions of ageing?  (accessible version)
•  Why is it important to support social connections?  (accessible version)
•  Why is it important to sustain physical activity across our lifetimes?   (accessible version)

International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO)

Research lead: Professor Joanna Chataway
Department: STEaPP

Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre for Mineral-based Construction Materials

Research Lead: Professor Julia Stegemann
Department: Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

Research Institute in Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS)

Research lead: Professor Madeline Carr
Department: Computer Science

• Policy brief: Evaluating Cyber Security Evidence for Policy Advice
• RISCS Project Catalogue 2021 
• Workshop report: Anticipation and Futures Literacy 
• Workshop report: Quantification and Cyber Risk 
• Workshop report: Ransomware
• Workshop report: EU cyber policy
• Workshop report: Optimising the use of UK Government survey data on cyber security

Vax Hub

Research lead: Dr Martina Micheletti
Department: Biochemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering Sciences)

• Policy brief: Manufacturing Biological Medicines
• Policy brief: Developing new vaccines for pandemics
• Policy brief: Manufacturing new vaccines for pandemics
• Workshop report: Opportunities in needle-free formulation
• Workshop Report: The skills agenda for vaccine manufacturing
• Workshop Report: Public perceptions of vaccine development