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Dear Colleagues

We are delighted to announce a new £2.7 million international project funded by the EPSRC: IMPRINTS: Identity Management: Public Responses to IdeNtity Technologies and Services.

The consortium project which will be directed by Professor Liesbet Van-Zoonen, Research Co-ordinator at the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, will commence in September 2011 for a period of 3 years.  Co-investigators include the University of Dundee, University of Essex, Northumbria University and Durham University.  Partners are the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Seattle, USA.

The project has been created in continuous interaction with representatives of different stakeholders from US and UK government and security services that expect to benefit directly from this research.

Our overall question is: What will influence UK and US publics to engage and/or disengage with identity management practices, services and technologies of the future?

The project proceeds in three phases: in the first we will establish which future scenarios of identity management are available in popular culture, science fiction, security studies, intelligence reports and commercial trends.  In the second phase we will discuss these scenarios with audiences through various qualitative and quantitative methods, and in the third phase we will develop these results into a grid of taboos and desires of identity management that will produce usable instruments for policy makers, intelligence officers, civic activists and commercial developers.

Further information on the project will be available over the next few months.

We welcome any information on related projects, publications or related material that might be beneficial to developing this project.

If you are interested in receiving direct information about the project in the future please let me know and I will add your details to our mailing list.

Kind regards

Sharon

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Sharon Walker
Office and Knowledge Transfer Manager
Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP)
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK

Phone: +44 (0)1509 223618
Fax: +44 (0)1509 213409
www.crsp.ac.uk
www.crsp.ac.uk/staff/sharon_walker.html 

www.minimumincomestandard.org

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