Stewardship of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
The Synthetic Society Lab aims to improve how we research, access, and use sensitive human data. The fellowship will advance an evidence-based science of privacy engineering to make research using digital traces safe and reliable.
Worker Voice and AI Adoption
This project investigates how worker representation in German firms shapes AI use and adoption, asking whether employee voice at firms can steer AI toward complementing workers rather than automating them.
The Digital Lives of Care-experienced Children
This project investigates how digital skills develop in the absence of traditional family support structures and aims to identify any critical and overlooked gaps that emerge.
US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowship
The project will investigate the international relations and social dynamics of international AI competition, specifically the sociopolitical and bureaucratic drivers of US-China AI competition.
AfriGPT: LLMs over SMS
This project investigates how low-resource AI chatbots shape labour and education outcomes in digitally underserved communities in Sierra Leone.
The Digital Good Network
The Digital Good Network (DGN) delivers an interdisciplinary, social science-led research programme centred on the urgent, neglected question of what the digital good should look like and how it can be achieved.
Seeing Migration Narratives
Media narratives on migration are perceived to have a significant impact on policy decisions and public attitudes toward migration. The project applies tools and methods to enable practitioners to make more effective policy decisions.
The Social Effects of AI Interaction
This project uses a longitudinal randomised controlled trial to examine how prolonged LLM use changes people's perceptions and expectations of humans, the ways these changes may disproportionately impact women, and how such effects are linked to addi
AI and the reconfiguration of teachers’ work
UK policy makers are facing a teacher recruitment and retention crisis, driven by workload and the changing nature of teachers’ work. This project explores how AI reconfigures teachers' work, and the implications for workload, identity and pedagogy.
Research Programme on AI & Work
This programme supports research in the sphere of AI & Work.
Research Programme on AI, Government and Policy
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.