Edinburgh Law School’s Gavin Sullivan receives £600,000 UKRI award for research project
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Dr Gavin Sullivan, reader in international human rights law at Edinburgh Law School, has been awarded almost £600,000 by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for his academic project.
The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship scheme seeks to develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders by supporting the tackling of ambitious and challenging research.
Dr Sullivan will be recruiting in 2024/early 2025 to grow the team for his project Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence and International Law.
Dr Sullivan said: “My research examines how global security governance by data and algorithmic decision-making is reshaping law and regulation in digital border security and online counterterrorism.
“The rapid development of AI-driven governance in these areas is reconfiguring law, power and agency in significant ways and posing critical rights and accountability challenges, particularly for those targeted as ‘risky’.
“I am extremely grateful to UKRI for their continued support in funding this work, and excited to be soon growing the Infra-Legalities research team at Edinburgh Law School and working together with my global network of academic collaborators and policy-orientated project partners’.”
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