Digital Technologies Policy Laboratory
STEaPP's Digital Policy Lab works collaboratively across disciplines and with the policy community to develop responses to the challenges and opportunities of emerging technologies
New and emerging digital technologies are reshaping the ways that we interact, work, and govern. They have profound implications for the promotion of justice and equity, for economic growth, for the provision of public goods, and for international affairs and security. Due to the pace of change as well as the scale and scope of these transformations, the formulation of policies that effectively address these issues is particularly difficult. In order to support sound policy solutions in this context, the Digital Policy Lab works closely with the national and international policy community to understand their goals and challenges and to develop research projects that provide solutions.
We have a number of projects underway in STEaPP that have been co-designed with policy makers. These are typically oriented around specific research questions that have been developed collaboratively - with real attention to the specific needs of those who work to design and implement innovative policy approaches to the deeply challenging problems as well as the unprecedented opportunities brought about by technological change.
Gender and IoT is an interdisciplinary project exploring the implications of IoT on gender-based domestic violence and abuse and is funded by a Social Science Plus+ award from UCL's Collaborative Social Science Domain
The project seeks to provide support for cyber security policy makers in the UK, specifically those civil servants who provide short and long term policy advice, either in response to specific crisis incidents or in the context of longer term planning for national security and capacity building
The Mapping Exercise is an extension of the EPSRC funded project, 'Evaluating Cyber Security Evidence for Policy Advice' (ECSEPA)
A £23 million project to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security
STEaPP is proud to host the RISCS Research Institute for Science of Cyber Security
- Other Projects
| Cyber Readiness for Boards |
| Privacy-Aware Cloud Ecosystems |
| CDT in Cyber Security |
| International Cooperation on the IoT |
| Standards in the IoT |
- STEaPP Contributors
| Dr Madeline Carr is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Digital Policy Laboratory; she is also an Associate Professor of International Relations and Cyber Security |
| Dr Uchenna Ani is a Research Associate working on PETRAS |
| Dr Irina Brass is a Lecturer in Regulation, Innovation and Public Policy |
| Dr Alex Chung is a Research Associate working on the EPSRC funded project titled Evaluating Cyber Security Evidence for Policy Advice |
| Dr Carolin Kaltofen is a Research Associate working in Science Diplomacy |
| Dr Feja Lesniewska is a Research Associate working on PETRAS |
| Isabel Lopez Neira is a Research Assistant working on Gender and IoT |
| Dr Kruakae Pothong is a Research Associate working on PETRAS |
| Dr Ine Steenmans is a Research Associate working in Foresight and Futures |
| Dr Leonie Tanczer is a Lecturer in International Security and Emerging Technologies |
| Professor Jeremy Watson is a Professor of Engineering Systems |
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