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Biography
Dr Lachlan Urquhart is a Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction. He is founder and director of the interdisciplinary Regulation and Design Lab. He is Co-Director of the Scottish Research Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (SCRIPT) and the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance, and Privacy (CRISP). He is Founder and Director of the Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab. His main research interests are in the socio-technical aspects of designing, living with, and regulating emerging information technologies. He has a multidisciplinary background in computer science (PhD) and law (LL.B; LL.M) and he has studied at the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, and Nottingham.
He is the Law School lead for the Centre for Data, Culture, and Society; on the Design Informatics Institute management board; and a research associate at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. He is a Visiting Researcher and Founding Member of the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham; a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, a Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Centre, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, and member of the international Emotional AI Lab. He was a visiting scientist at Fraunhofer AICOS, Porto, and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji University, Tokyo.
He has published over 50 papers in leading venues in computing, law, and ethics. He has been a lead and co-investigator on projects totalling over £6m from EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, Universitas 21, and Impact Accelerator Funds. He is currently Principal Investigator of the EPSRC £1.2m ‘Fixing the Future: Right to Repair and Equal-IoT’ project and Co-Investigator on the ESRC Emotional AI in Smart Cities project, EPSRC Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance Node, and various projects in the EPSRC Horizon Trusted Data Driven Products hub.
For up-to-date details on recent activities, please see his website.
Current Projects
- £1.2m EPSRC funded Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT. (PI)
- £3.2m EPSRC funded Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance and Regulation Node.
- £60k TAS Hub Integrator project on Data Protection by Design and Default for Smart Homes with ICO
- Book project entitled 'Regulating Ubicomp by Design' to be published with Cambridge University Press.
- £4.1m EPSRC funded Horizon Digital Economy Research Centre on Trusted Data Driven Products (Founding Member).
- £720,000 UKRI and Japan Science & Technology Agency co-funded project Emotional AI in Smart Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for An Ethical Life. This project is with Bangor and Northumbria Universities in the UK and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific, Chuo and Meiji Univerisities in Japan.
Past Projects include:
- £25,000 Horizon funded Memory Machine 2.0 project
- £1m EPSRC funded ‘Defence Against Dark Artefacts’ project examining technical, sociological & legal requirements for effective management of smart home cybersecurity. This is a collaborative project with the Universities of Nottingham, Cambridge, Imperial College London and a range of industry partners incl. BT, Cisco, ARM.
- £4,000 Universitas 21 funded Cardographer Online Project.
- £50,000 ESRC/AHRC Japan-UK Social Science and Humanities Connections co-funded project on Emotional AI in commercial and security contexts with Bangor University and Ritsumeiken Asia Pacific University. See final report here.
- UoN Impact Accelerator £9,500 funded Intelligent Ideation: Cardographer project.
- Co-I: £90,000 Horizon funded ‘Memory Machine’ project on co-designing a memory preserving IoT device with dementia sufferers.
- £16,000 Horizon funded ‘Moral-IT: Enabling Design of Ethical Systems’ on developing card-based tools for building ethical IT systems, which are now available here (PI)
- £30,000 UoN Research Priority Area funded project ‘About Algorithms & Beyond’ exploring aspects of algorithms and IoT,
- £8,000 UoN Digital Research funded ‘Ethics of Internet of Things in Research’ on new strategies to manage risks of using IoT used in research;
- £1,500 DEN funded project on 'Games & Human Values’ exploring how games can be medium of critique for wider societal concerns
- Horizon funded project on ‘Information Privacy by Design Cards’ with Microsoft Research, which was also led to a c£140,000 US National Science Foundation funded partner project based at NYU.
Teaching
Human-Computer Interaction and Governance (Course Organiser)
Legal Challenges of Information Technology (Course Organiser)
Information Technology Law (Course Organiser)
Law of e-Commerce (Course Organiser)
Electronic Commerce Law (Course organiser)
Data Protection and Information Privacy Law
EU Data Protection Law
Controversies in the Data Society (Edinburgh Futures Institute)
Data Ethics, AI and Responsible Innovation MOOC
Research students
Natalie Leesakul - 'Manufacturing Robots and the Law' (External: Horizon, University of Nottingham)
Robbie Scarff - 'Regulating emotional artificial intelligence: exploring expert and citizen perspectives using design fictions'
Ayça Atabey - 'Fairness, Digital Technologies and Vulnerable Users'
Matthew Jewell - 'Dissent in the smart city: Contesting cyber-physical architectures'
Aditi Surana - 'Democratic Data Governance and Design'
Yiwei Lu - 'Representation Learning for Argumentation-based Legal Ontology'
Qualifications
LL.B (Hons), Edinburgh
LL.M Information Technology and Telecommunciations Law (Distinction), Strathclyde
Ph.D Computer Science, Nottingham
Research Interests
External positions
Visiting Researcher, University of Nottingham
31 Jul 2018 → …
College Research Themes
- Data and Digital
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Research output
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Sensing care through design: A speculative role-play approach to “Living With” sensor-supported care networks
Rattay, S., Collins, R., Surana, A., Lee, Y., Liu, Y., Mauri, A., Urquhart, L., Vines, J., Wilson, C., Pschetz, L., Rozendaal, M. & Shklovski, I., 10 Jul 2023, DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Byrne, D., Martelaro, N., Boucher, A., Chatting, D., Fdili Alaoui, S., Fox, S., Nicenboim, I. & MacArthur, C. (eds.). ACM, p. 1660-1675 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Handling inconsistent and uncertain legal reasoning for AI vehicles design
Lu, Y., Lin, Y., Schafer, B., Ireland, A., Urquhart, L. & Yu, Z., 20 May 2023, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Methodologies for Translating Legal Norms into Formal Representations (LN2FR 2022). Satoh, K., Borges, G. & Schweighofer, E. (eds.). ArXiv, p. 76-89 (Logic in Computing).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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How do you solve a problem like Alexa?
Atabey, A., Schafer, B. & Urquhart, L., 30 Mar 2023, In: Jusletter IT. March, p. 185-198Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An argumentation and ontology based legal support system for AI vehicle design
Lu, Y., Yu, Z., Lin, Y., Schafer, B., Ireland, A. & Urquhart, L., 1 Dec 2022, Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2022: The Thirty-fifth Annual Conference, Saarbrücken, Germany, 14–16 December 2022. Francesconi, E., Borges, G. & Sorge, C. (eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press, p. 213-218 6 p. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; vol. 362).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Legal provocations for HCI in the design and development of trustworthy autonomous systems
Urquhart, L. D., McGarry, G. & Crabtree, A., 8 Oct 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI’22): Aarhus, Denmark 8th – 12th October, 2022. ACM, p. 1-12 12 p. 75Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Activities
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Philosophy & Technology (Journal)
Lachlan Urquhart (Peer reviewer)
28 Mar 2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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Fraunhofer AICOS, Porto
Lachlan Urquhart (Visiting researcher)
Apr 2022Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
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SCRIPT Centre (Organisational unit)
Lachlan Urquhart (Member)
1 Jan 2022Activity: Membership types › Membership of board
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ESRC (External organisation)
Lachlan Urquhart (Reviewer)
Mar 2022Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Cesare Beccaria (School of Law), Universitá degli Studi di Milano (External organisation)
Lachlan Urquhart (Member)
Apr 2022 → Apr 2023Activity: Membership types › Membership of external research organisation
Prizes
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Taylor and Francis Prize for Best Paper
Urquhart, Lachlan (Recipient), Apr 2019
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Fixing the Future: Right to Repair for Equal-IoT
Urquhart, L., Terras, M., Luger, E., Lechelt, S. & Boniface, C.
1/10/22 → 1/10/24
Project: Research
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Next Generation Digital Economy Centre: Horizon - Trusted Data Driven Products
1/08/20 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
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Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for An Ethical Life
1/01/20 → 30/09/23
Project: Research
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Critically Envisioning Biometric AI Futures
Urquhart, L., Miranda, D., Connon, I. & Laffer, A.
15/12/22 → 31/03/23
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Hey devs! Confused by EU privacy law? Pull out the FLASH CARD
6/05/15
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment