Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
The Ethics and Rights in a Security Context grant commissioned new research projects to develop greater understanding of the role of ethics and rights in a security environment, with a focus on governance viewed through seven research themes:
- Legitimacy
- Jurisdiction
- Autonomy
- Temporality
- Surveillance
- Protection
- Agency
Ethics and rights are central to the study of security. They have an important place across a range of security contexts and at a number of scales or frames of analysis – including the individual, organisational, state and international levels. It is intended that research projects will bring a greater focus to ethics as a framework to enable and empower policy rather than hinder it.
Research Integrator
Professor Tom Sorell of the University of Warwick has been appointed as Research Integrator for the Ethics and Rights in a Security Context grant.
Research Grants
Treating People as Objects? Ethics, Security and the Governance of Mobility
Dr Tom Walker – Queen’s University Belfast
Moral Victories: Ethics, Exit Strategies, and the Ending of Wars
Dr Cian O’Driscoll – University of Glasgow
The Responsibility to Protect in the context of the continuing War on Terror – A study of liberal interventionism and the Syrian crisis
Professor Jason Ralph – University of Leeds
The Common Good: Ethics and Rights in Cyber Security
Professor James Connelly – University of Hull
Nuclear Ethics and Global Security: Reforming the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Professor Nicholas Wheeler – University of Birmingham
Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relations after the Snowden Leaks
Dr Arne Hintz – Cardiff University
Digital Wildfire: (Mis)information flows, propagation and responsible governance
Dr Marina Jirotka – University of Oxford
