Associate Professor Keith Hyams and Dr Marinella Capriati have been invited to speak at Westminster on 26th October to a cross-party group of MPs on their project 'The International Politics of West Papua'. The project, which runs until 2016, is funded by an ESRC Impact Accelerator Grant.

Dr Kat Hadjimatheou has been appointed to the National Police Chiefs Council's 'Independent Digital Ethics Policing Panel'. For a description of the panel by another member, click here: https://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/ethical-policing-of-the-internet-part-2/

Tom Sorell spoke at two events on assistive technology organized by the 3TU consortium—a permanent technology and ethics collaboration between the Universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente – on 23 and 24 April. In Delft he co-presented with Heather Draper on the ethics-related focus group results from the ACCOMPANY project. In Eindhoven he spoke on Telecare, replying to Commentaries on a paper he published in 2012 with Heather Draper on Telecare and Surveillance.

As part of the EU funded project Surveille, Professor Tom Sorell, Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou and Dr John Guelke visited Google, Reddit, Mozilla, Stanford, and Berkeley to discuss topics such as Hacktivism, the Right to be Forgotten, Customer profiling, and the Value of Privacy.

Professor Tom Sorell has been appointed as External Ethics advisor on the European Commission research project IDIRA. This project's main focus is on the interoperability of data and emergency procedures in response to large scale disasters.