Projects
Current projects
DataECO
Funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) through the ATRAE programme, DataECO - Environmental Activism Through and Against Data in the Platform Society is a €1...
AI, Democracy and Big Tech – AIDEMOCRACY
AI, Democracy and Big Tech [AIDEMOCRACY] explores corporate activities in the advancement of Artificial Intelligence and their implications for trust, governance, and...
Recent projects
Public Involvement in AI Governance
In spring and summer 2025, Arne Hintz led two research projects to explore and advance public involvement in the roll-out of AI in public services. The project...
Automating Public Services: Learning from Cancelled Systems
The project Automating Public Services: Learning from Cancelled Systems investigates why government departments and agencies in different countries are deciding to...
Democratising the Datafied Society
Expanding on our work on advancing civic participation in data governance, we are currently exploring further ways in which people engage with, and intervene into, the...
Advancing Data Justice in the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act
The Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act (FGA) was implemented in 2015 with the aim to advance social, cultural, environmental and economic well-being through...
Big Data from the South
In collaboration with DATACTIVE. An initiative for theoretical and empirical exchange on the challenges of datafication and massive data collection as they unfold in...
Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring Society
The project Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring Society investigated avenues for participation and intervention in the increasing roll-out...
Data Scores as Governance
The mass collection and processing of data is becoming an increasingly integral part of governance. Whilst the integration of big data analytics in government practice...
Data Policies
The project Data Policies: Regulatory Approaches for Data-Driven Platforms in the UK and EU (2017-19) was a research project conducted by Arne Hintz and Jess Brand at...
DATAJUSTICE – ERC Starting Grant
This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication. It is premised on two significant developments: 1) the shift to a focus on the collection...
Data Harm Record
Updated August 2020 Joanna Redden, Jessica Brand and Vanesa Terzieva ...
bot populi
An online magazine on current debates regarding social justice in a digital world, which the Data Justice Lab has developed together with a group of international...
Previous projects
(before the formal establishement of the Data Justice Lab)
Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society
UK State-Media-Citizen Relations after the Snowden Leaks (Cardiff University)
Managing Threats: Uses of Social Media for Policing Domestic Extremism and Disorder in the UK
(Cardiff University)
Social Media and Big Data
(Infoscape Research Lab)
