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Values and Visions: TAS-S and National Highways Workshop #2
On 6th May, Lancaster-based colleagues from TAS-S Research Strand 3 (RS3) and National Highways colleagues returned to cyberspace to meet for the second workshop in our collaboration. After opening many exciting avenues of discussion in the first workshop back

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

National Highways Workshop #1
New Collaborations: TAS-S and National Highways
On the 18th January, RS3 had our first exploratory workshop with National Highways, which represents the beginning of our new partnership over the next 8 months. It is already clear that this

From Mexico to Milton Keynes
Ever since my early childhood days I’ve always been amazed by automation. My personal interest in this topic was in large thanks to my own father’s business which sold imported components critical to what some may consider “old school” automation

Meeting the TAS-S team!


On the 24th and 25th November, the TAS-S Researchers took part in a face-to-face workshop for the very first time. For me, this was

PhD to PDRA
Hello everyone! It is a great honor to join the TAS-S project and the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing at Cranfield University as a Research Fellow on Research Strand 2. My part in this project is to secure

ELSI, Workshops, and the things in-between
Starting out in Philosophy, I was told by many colleagues that the aim was conceptual exactitude. Get your groundings right, figure out the foundations of your arguments. Now, 5 years out from finishing my PhD, I find myself in new

ELSI Workshops
ELSI and Autonomous Systems seem to go together. Making Autonomous Systems trustworthy appears to demand ethical considerations, thinking about ways of regulating and making laws, and the societal impacts of those.
In our first two workshops with TAS-S, I worked

A new job at Lancaster University!
I officially joined Lancaster University on 8th April this year as a senior research associate on TAS-S. I had just completed my Ph.D. study at the University of Exeter where I stayed for 5 years, since the first time I