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Research grants awarded to CIPIL

Human Rights, Big Data and Technology (HRDBT)
A major ESRC project principally based at the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex.  In addition to contributing to the Project’s aims as a whole, the CIPIL contribution leads on certain aspects specifically related to data protection, big data and associated technologies within both Work Streams One (Full Rights Implication, Regulation and Remedies) and Two (Surveillance and Human Rights).
  • Cambridge PI – Dr David Erdos
  • Researcher (09/02/2017 – 08/10/2018) – Dr Krzysztof Garstka
  • Dates – 01/10/2015 – 30/09/2020
  • Sponsor – ESRC
  • Scheme – Major Research Grant
  • Budget - £135,546

Appraising Potential Legal Responses to Threats to the Production of News in the Digital Environment
A grant led by CIPIL and in collaboration with Professor Ian Hargreaves (University of Cardiff), research will feed into the work of the Centre for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology (CREATe).

  • PI - Professor Lionel Bently
  • Researcher - Richard Danbury
  • Dates - 01/01/2014 - 31/12/2016
  • Sponsor - AHRC
  • Scheme - Copyright Satellites
  • Budget - £249,769

Piracy and Freedom: between the National and the International
 
A grant administered by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge.

  • PI - Professor Lionel Bently
  • Researcher - Dr Ge Chen
  • Dates - 01/01/2013 - 31/12/2013
  • Sponsor - Foundation CIGREF
  • Scheme - Grant
  • Budget - £80,855

The Creative Economy , Digital Technology and Innovation
A grant led by Professor Simon Goldhill, Driector of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, on which Professor Bently is Co-Investigator.

  • PI - Professor Simon Goldhill
  • Researchers - Dr Eleonora Rosati and Carl Hogsden
  • Dates - 01/12/2012 - 30/11/2013
  • Sponsor - AHRC
  • Scheme - Research Grant
  • Budget - £249,379

Of Authority and Originality
Professor Mireille M.M. van Eechoud (University of Amsterdam) led this international collaborative grant, in partnership with Professor Bently and Professor Jostein Gripsrud, University of Bergen, Norway.

  • PI - Professor Mireille M.M. van Eechoud
  • Researchers - Dr Laura Biron and Dr Elena Cooper
  • Dates - 01/06/2010 - 30/06/2013
  • Sponsor - HERA
  • Scheme - Joint Research Programme
  • Budget - £243,490

Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) Electronic Database of Materials
This research led to the creation of a digital archive of 550 (10,000 pages/60GB) primary sources from five jurisdictions in facsimile, with transcriptions, translations and editorial commentary.

  • PIs - Professor Lionel Bently and Professor Martin Kretschmer (then University of Bournemouth, now University of Glasgow)
  • Researchers - Dr Joanna Kostylo, Dr (now Professor) Ronan Deazley (then Birmingham University, now Glasgow); Professor Oren Bracha (University of Texas); Dr Friedemann Kawohl; Dr Frederic Rideau (University of Poitiers)
  • Dates - 28/10/2005 - 30/04/2008
  • Sponsor - AHRC
  • Scheme - Research Enhancement
  • Budget - £282,998