Tag: Human Rights
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Dr Ana Beduschi: Rethinking digital identity for post-COVID-19 societies
Dr Ana Beduschi published a new article titled ‘Rethinking digital identity for post-COVID-19 societies: Data privacy and human rights considerations’. The article was published by Data & Policy, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal (Cambridge University Press). The article argues that a potentially positive outcome of the current pandemic could be the development of a more data…
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Dr Inga Thiemann discussed work and its regulation after COVID-19
Dr Inga Thiemann together with the Moving Labour Collective published a blog post on the Futures of Work on ‘Re-imagining Work and its Regulation after COVID-19’. The blog post includes an edited transcript of an online meeting hosted to discuss implications of COVID-19 for labour, its embodied practices, regulation, and the theoretical and activist engagements…
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COVID-19: Human Rights Implications of Digital Certificates for Health Status Verification
PROJECT DESCRIPTION COVID-19: Human Rights Implications of Digital Certificates for Health Status Verification Dr Ana Beduschi (principal investigator) Sponsor: UKRI ESRC (£98,714) Project length: 15 June 2020 – 14 December 2021 About the Project The UK government announced it would consider establishing “immunity passports” as part of a lockdown exit strategy during the ongoing outbreak…
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Incentives to Plead Guilty may Undermine the Right to a Fair Trial
Research by Dr. Rebecca Helm and published in the Journal of Law and Society suggests that incentives to plead guilty in England and Wales may undermine the right to a fair trial and lead the innocent to plead guilty. The research shows that many defendants in England and Wales face powerful incentives to plead guilty,…
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Global Food Security, Climate Change, and Resilience
The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Exeter have recently come together to create the Joint Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Resilience (ENSURE). ENSURE will bring together interdisciplinary groups of researchers from both institutions to tackle some of the major environmental and health challenges facing the world today. In recent weeks, the…
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SCuLE Researchers visit Hong Kong to discuss food security
At the end of June 2018, Dr Catherine Caine and Josh Martin from the Law School and Dr Annalisa Marini from the Business School at the University of Exeter visited a team of academics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to discuss how changing dietary habits in China and the UK can impact…