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IDOS Policy Brief on Facial Recognition and AI
Dr Kerem Öge and Manuel Quintin have published a new IDOS Policy Brief on regulating facial recognition and artificial intelligence. The brief calls for adaptive and inclusive governance that includes transparent labelling, stronger civil society roles, and recognising AI as a social issue. It builds on their forthcoming research on the evolution of AI frames in the United States and the EU.
Tom Parr’s New Book Sparks Debate on Work, Justice, and Automation
Tom Parr’s new book, Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation, offers a bold framework for tackling the social justice challenges posed by automation, insecure work, and growing labour market inequality.
New Grant Success - Challenging Covert Counterterrorism Tactics
A new £90,000 grant will support legal action against the secretive 'Police Led Partnerships' program, exposed by PAIS’s Charlotte Heath-Kelly. The research team aims to hold UK counterterrorism policing accountable for covert surveillance through welfare and education systems.
British Academy Grant Success: 'Waves of imperialism'
A new project by PAIS’s Tom Long and Cambridge’s Carsten-Andreas Schulz dives into Chile’s 1888 annexation of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to uncover surprising links between Latin American and European imperialism.
Rethinking development through more relational, embodied, and dialogic research
A new article, "Dining in the dialogical, listening through the relational: ‘withness-thinking’ for development scholarship and praxis", has been published in Globalizations by PAIS PhD Candidate Raymond Hyma and food researcher Dr Elaine Pratley. The piece explores their respective approaches of listening-based inquiry and food-as-method in peacebuilding and development research.