Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
Willing to speak to media
Marion's research focuses on the interaction between law and digital technology, and involves multi-disciplinary collaboration and doctrinal, empirical and conceptual methodologies. Building on her background as a practising lawyer within Government and technology companies, she has developed a particular specialism in the use of digital technologies and big data within policing, national security and the wider public sector.
She is PI of the 4-year UKRI-funded Responsible AI UK Keystone project 'PROBabLE Futures - Probabilistic AI in Law Enforcement Futures' and PI of the AHRC-funded BRAID scoping project: Ethical review to support Responsible AI in Policing – A Preliminary Study of West Midlands Police's specialist data ethics review committee. From November 2021, Marion will also be working for the Turing Institute as Senior Research Associate supporting the Safe and Ethical AI Programme, focused in particular on criminal justice and national security.
Marion was awarded an MBE in The Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list 2022 for services to digital innovation.
Marion is Chair of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner and West Midlands Police Data Ethics Committee, a member of the New Zealand Police independent advisory panel on emerging technologies, a member of the Home Office-sponsored Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group and a Board member of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub. She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the AHRC's peer review college.
From July 2021 - March 2022, Marion was Specialist Adviser to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee advising the Lords Committee on its inquiry into technologies and the application of the law: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1272/new-technologies-and-the-application-of-the-law/
From Sep 2021-Sep 23, Marion was appointed to the independent Advisory Board of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, a government expert body focused upon the trustworthy use of data and AI.
Marion was PI and Director of the AHRC-funded 'Observatory for the Monitoring of Data-Driven Approaches to Covid-19' (https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/omddac/).
Professor Marion Oswald, MBE is Professor of Law at Northumbria University, Newcastle and Senior Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute. She researches the interaction between law and digital technology and has a particular interest in the use of AI and innovative technology in policing and national security.
She is PI of the 4-year UKRI-funded Responsible AI UK Keystone project 'PROBabLE Futures - Probabilistic AI in Law Enforcement Futures' and PI of the AHRC-funded BRAID scoping project: Ethical review to support Responsible AI in Policing – A Preliminary Study of West Midlands Police's specialist data ethics review committee.
Marion was awarded an MBE in The Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list 2022 for services to digital innovation.
Marion is Chair of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner and West Midlands Police Data Ethics Committee, a member of the New Zealand Police independent advisory panel on emerging technologies, a member of the Home Office-sponsored Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group and a Board member of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub. She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the AHRC's peer review college.
From July 2021 - March 2022, Marion was Specialist Adviser to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee advising the Lords Committee on its inquiry into technologies and the application of the law: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1272/new-technologies-and-the-application-of-the-law/
From Sep 2021-Sep 23, Marion was appointed to the independent Advisory Board of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, a government expert body focused upon the trustworthy use of data and AI.
Marion was PI and Director of the AHRC-funded 'Observatory for the Monitoring of Data-Driven Approaches to Covid-19' (https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/omddac/).
Law, PhD, PhD
Award Date: 17 Dec 2020
Law, BA, Durham University
26 Jun 1991 → …
Award Date: 26 Jun 1991
Advisory Board, Open Rights Group
1 Sept 2023 → …
Alan Turing Institute
Nov 2021 → …
Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
9 Sept 2021 → 8 Sept 2023
Member of the Board of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub
13 Jan 2021 → …
Advisory Board to the Ada Lovelace Institute Ryder Review of the Regulation of Biometric Technologies
24 Jan 2020 → …
British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association
… → Apr 2022
Council of Europe Committee on Crime Problems Working Group of Experts on Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Law
National Statistician's Data Ethics Advisory Committee
Royal United Services Institute
West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner and West Midlands Police Ethics Committee
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Other report › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Book/Report › Other report
Oswald, M. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Oswald, M. (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Oswald, M. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Oswald, M. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Oswald, M. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Oswald, M. (PI), Li, G. (CoI), Bessant, C. (CoI) & Emmett, C. (CoI)
4/11/20 → 3/11/21
Project: Research
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Oswald, M. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy, law and services
Oswald, M. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy, law and services
Oswald, M. (Participant)
Impact: Public discourseand understanding, Pathway to Impact
Oswald, M. (Participant)
Impact: Pathway to Impact