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Publications and policy papers

Read publications on our research and analysis, including policy papers that sum up recent developments in web science, data science and artificial intelligence.

Policy papers

The Algorithmic Hand: Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, and Collective Action at Scale by Tiago C. Peixoto (2025) 

Policy and guidance on the use of generative artificial intelligence in UK higher education 
by Arjun Awasthi & Achala Gupta (2025)

FIVE AIMS: Lessons from Internet Governance for Artificial Intelligence Management Strategies by Wendy Hall, Kieron O'Hara and Pierre Noro (2025)

Large Language Models: Prediction, pollution and projection  by Wendy Hall and Ben Hawes (2024)

Democracy online: technologies for democratic deliberation by Adam Meylan-Stevenson, Ben Hawes and Matt Ryan (2024)

Can the internet be designed to protect democracy and human rights? by Ben Hawes, Adam Meylan-Stevenson and Matt Ryan (2024)

Government policy on AI: what should the next administration focus on? by Ben Hawes and Wendy Hall (2024) 

Making AI work for everyone: join the global conversation by Ben Hawes and Wendy Hall (2024)

After the Summit: progress in public policy on AI, by Ben Hawes and Wendy Hall (2023)

Can artificial intelligence be used to undermine elections?, by Ben Hawes, Wendy Hall and Matt Ryan (2023)

Web 3: the promise and the reality, by Ben Hawes, Wendy Hall, Bill Thompson and Kieron O'Hara (2023)

Making smart fair: building inclusive, fair and sustainable transport for cities of the future, by Roger Tyers and Pauline Leonard (2020)

A blueprint for a social data foundation: accelerating trustworthy and collaborative data sharing for health and social care transformation, by Michael Boniface, Laura Carmichael, Wendy Hall, Brian Pickering, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon and Steve Taylor (2020)

Data trusts: ethics, architecture and governance for trustworthy data stewardship, by Kieron O'Hara (2019)

Building trust through data foundations: a call for a data governance model to support trustworthy data sharing, by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Alexsis Wintour and Laura Carmichael (2019)

Research publications

Research outputs

Gemma Fitzsimmons & Denis Drieghe, 2013, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 39(4), 1054-1063
Type: article
Nigel R. Shadbolt, Daniel Alexander Smith, Elena Simperl, Max Van Kleek, Yang Yang & Wendy Hall, 2013
Type: conference
Norhidayah Azman, David E. Millard & Mark J. Weal, 2012
Type: conference
Craig Webber & Michael Yip, 2012
Type: bookChapter