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 was 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 is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (Alan Turing Institute). 

In 2025, Marion was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. 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, and a member of the Home Office-sponsored Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group. 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 Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (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 was 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. 

In 2025, Marion was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. 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, and a member of the Home Office-sponsored Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group. 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/).