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Backcasting Workshop with National Highways

In our final collaborative workshop between RS3 and National Highways, we wanted to look to the future, and think about the evolution of National Highways as an organisation. To help facilitate this, the workshop focussed on backcasting, a speculative exploratory

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The UAV experiment in situ at Cranfield University.
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TAS-S ESG

Time flies… It has been two years that I started as a postdoctoral research fellow in Security Node of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) project. In this period, I have had the opportunity to improve myself in my research field

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TAS-S ESG: Organisational Challenges

The TAS-S ESG this year was our first major face-to-face event with our stakeholders after the pandemic (the two previous ESGs were held online). Organising an in-person meeting for the first time in over two years reminded me of some

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Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration

TAS-S Researchers’ Workshop 5 took place on the 7th and 8th February 2023. This was actually our third attempt to meet, our previous dates in December and mid-January were cancelled due to the rail strikes and illness.

When we did

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A Sociologist of Distributed Autonomous Systems

Hi there and welcome to my blog post! I joined the TAS-Security node in June 2021 as an affiliated PhD student in Sociology to investigate how human-machine cognitive interaction constitutes and regulates the making of distributed autonomous technology. My interest

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Alvaro Lopez Pellicer graduating from Lancaster University. He is holding a scroll in his hands and is dressed in Lancaster University robes (black with a gold, grey and red hood, with a black mortar board).
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From Law to Computer Science.

Not that long ago, when I was at high school, I was convinced I wanted to always wear a suit to work, argue to prove the impossible in court as a lawyer, and perhaps even jump to politics back in

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Dr. Anders af Wåhlberg
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Welcome to Dr. Anders af Wåhlberg

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Anders af Wåhlberg to the TAS-S Node.  Dr. af Wåhlberg has recently joined us as a Research Fellow and will be based at Cranfield University.  He has an MA and PhD in Psychology and

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An original 1930s/1940s red bricked building at Cranfield with a covered seating area outside.
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The University with an Airport!

Last week, we held our researchers’ workshop.  Although this was the second time the researchers had all met each other, it was our first trip down to Cranfield.  

Although Cranfield is nearly 200 miles from Lancaster, it is remarkably easy

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