We are delighted to announce a significant expansion of the membership of our Expert Network as we enter the network’s second year of activity. With 29 new experts joining the network this year, together with those members remaining from the previous year, our network now stands at 43 members. We will be updating the list of members shortly A key part of […]
On Thursday 8th April we were very pleased to welcome Martin Sloan present a webinar entitled ‘Data protection, privacy and IP – what do you need to think about in the digital environment?’. Martin Sloan is a partner in the IP, Tech and Data team at Brodies LLP. Martin is recognised by Chambers and Partners […]
The Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies (CreamT) project is now is full swing monitoring wave overtopping and beach levels change at Dawlish. While the lockdowns have been challenging with workshops access restricted and material supply chains impacted from the outset of the project, we still made it to the beach to collect out first […]
On Thursday 18th March we were delighted to have Professor Abbe Brown of the university of Aberdeen present a webinar entitled ‘Just because you can? Balancing the rights and regimes relevant to the digital environment’. Abbe Brown is Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Aberdeen. Her research and teaching focus on intellectual […]
This March 8th, the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme is proud to support the International Women’s Day, and to celebrate this we wanted to capture the achievements and inspirational stories of the women in the CDE Expert Network. With thanks to those who have agreed to share with us, here are their inspiring stories. #IWD2021 […]
On Thursday 25th February we were delighted to have Charles Helleputte of UCLouvain and a Partner in Steptoe present a fascinating webinar entitled ‘Is EU cybersecurity the missing piece to sustainable digital environment?’. Charles is a partner heading the EU cybersecurity, data, and privacy practice at Steptoe. He focuses on existing EU and national cybersecurity, […]
The 2021 Expert Network application process is now complete NERC is inviting applications for membership of the Expert Network within the Constructing a Digital Environment Programme. This is the second year of intake for these positions and, along with current members of this network, new members will help support the Digital Environment programme activities, working […]
We had a fantastic finish to the first of our Webinar series ‘Data for Decision Making’ when Professor Karl Claxton presented his most informative talk on Lessons from applying decision science in the public health sector. This presentation followed the earlier webinars from Professor Sam L Savage (The Flaw of Averages and How to Cure […]
Professor Marion Scott, one of the CDE Expert Network members, and her research team have just produced an excellent animated ‘story map’ of their research project. This is a tale of how when the world turns upside down; engineers find a way to ‘get the job done’! The project involves plannig to develop and deploy […]
On Thursday 17th December, we were delighted to have Professor Norman Fenton, Queen Mary London University, present his webinar entitled, ‘Why Big Data and AI machine learning will never work for critical problems of risk assessment – causal reasoning and knowledge to the rescue’. Norman is a well-respected and widely published author with over 300 […]