The Microsoft-UCD Digital Policy Programme is designed to support those in government with the skills and knowledge necessary to amend existing legislation and plan for new legislation that will protect society and provide a relevant framework in which organisations can operate.
UCD Centre for
Digital Policy
Building digital policy capability amongst the public
and private sector in Ireland and across the wider
European Union.
and private sector in Ireland and across the wider
European Union.
About The Centre
Digital technologies underpin all areas of society and the economy, from work to leisure to political participation. However, as technological developments in the field of digital and data science accelerate, balancing the rights of citizens while investing in the possibilities afforded by digital technologies remains tricky for legislators, policy makers, and the private sector alike.
New technologies emerge and create new challenges even as organisations and governments struggle with creating appropriate responses for today.
Executive Team
Colin Scott
Professor of EU Regulation & Governance, Principal of UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, and Senior Advisor at Centre for Digital Policy
Colin Scott is professor of EU Regulation & Governance at University College Dublin, where he currently serves as vice president for Equality,...
Eugenia Siapera
Co-Director of Centre for Digital Policy and Head of School of Information and Communication Studies
As well as being a professor of Information and Communication Studies, Eugenia Siapera is head of the School of Information and Communication Studies...
Elizabeth Farries
Co-Director of Centre for Digital Policy and Director of the MSc in Digital Policy
Dr Elizabeth Farries is our Centre’s Director with Prof Siapera. She is also the director of the MSc, Graduate Diploma and Professional...
Marco Bastos
Assistant Professor of Information and Communication Studies
Marco Bastos is the UCD Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Information and Communication Studies and senior lecturer at City, University of London. He...
Our People
The Centre membership is multi-disciplinary drawing on expertise in media, communications, law, politics, and computer science.
Niamh Kirk
Lecturer in the School of English, Irish and Communications at the Univeristy of Limerick
Dr. Niamh Kirk is a lecturer in the School of English, Irish and Communications at the Univeristy of Limerick. Prior to that, she was appointed as...
Páraic Kerrigan
Assistant Professor, Information and Communication Studies
Páraic Kerrigan is an assistant professor and researcher at the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. His...
Maria O’Brien
Lecturer on Arts Management, Queen's University Belfast
Maria O’Brien works as a lecturer in Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on multiple aspects of cultural and creative...
Patrick Brodie
Assistant Professor & Ad Astra Fellow, School of Information and Communication Studies
Patrick Brodie is a lecturer, assistant professor and Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Information and Communication Studies. Patrick’s...
Insights
Read about some updates about the centre, our activities and articles by our members about critical areas in digital policy development
Covid-19 Narratives and Content Governance in a Diverse Platform Ecosystem
By Brendan Scally, Research Assistant in the IRC funded Platforming Harm project, and Eugenia Siapera, UCD Centre for...
Delivering Digital Policy For The 21st Century
October 2021. How does a 19th century Parliamentary system and model of government successfully consider, draft and...
Data & Healthcare in India: Digital Policy graduate Yusra Khan offers insight on India’s healthcare data privacy
April 2022. Our Professional Certificate in Digital Policy 2021 graduate, Yusra Khan, recently contributed to RSRR’s...
The Digital Services Act Package: A Primer
On December 15th, 2020, the European Commission submitted its legislative proposal for digital service to the European...
Ireland’s Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill: Too Little, Too Soon?
April 2021. The General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill (OSMR) represents the extensive and good...
Recent Publications
The conspiracy of Covid-19 and 5G
January 2022. Our Centre’s co-director Elizabeth Farries contributed to the publication of this article...
Online Safety and Media Regulation: An individual complaints mechanism
22 March 2022. Our Centre for Digital Policy, alongside the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre (ABC) and the Irish Society for...
Ethical Data Curation for AI: An Approach based on Feminist Epistemology and Critical Theories of Race
May 2021. The potential for bias embedded in data to lead to the perpetuation of social injustice through Artificial...
AI Content Moderation, Racism and (de)Coloniality
November 2021. AI Content Moderation, Racism and (De)Coloniality develops a critical approach to AI in content...
HateTrack: Tracking and Monitoring Racist Hate Speech Online
April 2021. The HateTrack Project is an experimental, exploratory research project that combines social, scientific and...
Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New Anti-Feminism
June 2021. Gender Hate Online addresses the dynamic nature of misogyny: how it travels, what technological and...
Netflix and Binge: Exploring New Cultures of Consumption
June 2021. This research report highlights limitations in the conceptualization of audiences in EU audiovisual media...
