Publications

isITethical? is based on collaborative research with practitioners in disaster risk management, IT development, and sustainable transport. We also work with local authorities, communities and Third Sector organisations, mainly in the UK, but also in Europe and further afield.

    The selection of publications below provides a glimpse of results. You can find more on our personal research pages. 

    Büscher, M., Cronshaw, C., Kirkbride, A., Spurling, N., 2023. Making Response-Ability: Societal Readiness Assessment for Sustainability Governance. Sustainability 15, 5140. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15065140

    Luján Escalante, M.A., Moffat, L., Büscher, M., 2022. Ethics through design, in: Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (Eds.), DRS2022. Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.400

    Büscher, Monika and Cronan Cronshaw, 2022. The Little Book of Societal Readiness. ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University. ISBN 978-1-7397133-2-4

    Büscher, Monika; Clark, Julie; Colderley, Rosslyn; Kirkbride, Alistair; Larty, Joanne; McCulloch, Shona; Moody, Emma; Mullis, Elizabeth; Phillips, Ian; Vaudrey, William; Willshaw, Kate, 2022. Cumbria 2037: Decarbonising Mobility Futures. Leeds: DecarboN8 Research Network

    Boersma, Kees, Monika Büscher, and Chiara Fonio, 2022. Crisis Management, Surveillance, and Digital Ethics in the COVID-19 Era. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 30 (1): 2–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12398.

    Kerasidou, C. (Xaroula), Kerasidou, A., Buscher, M., Wilkinson, S., 2022. Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI. Journal of Medical Ethics 48, 852–856. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-107095

    Perng S.; Buscher, M. and Moffat, L., 2022. Consuming disaster data: is IT ethical?, In: Boden, A., Jakobi, T., Stevens, G., Bala, C. Hgg., Verbraucherdatenschutz – Technik und Regulation zur Unterstützung des Individuums. Schriften der Verbraucherinformatik Band 1, 2021. DOI: 10.18418/978- 3-96043-095-7_06

    Büscher, M., Escalante, L.M, Alter, H., Easton, C., Kerasidou, X. (2018) The isITethical? Exchange: Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in 5G and Beyond.European Conference on Networks and Communications, EUCNC2018, 18-21 June 2018, Ljubljana. Available here.

    Büscher, M., Escalante, L.M, Alter, H., Easton, C., Kerasidou, X. (2018) isITethical? Responsible Research and Innovation for Disaster Risk Management.In Boersma, K. and Tomaszewski, B. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 17thISCRAM Conference, Rochester, NY, USA, May 2018. Available here.

    Büscher, M., Kerasidou, X., Petersen, K. and R. Oliphant (2017). Networked Urbanism and Disaster, in Freudendal-Petersen, M. and Kesselring, S. (Eds). Networked Urban Mobilities. Springer.

    Easton, Catherine (2017) Analysing the role of privacy impact assessments in technological development for crisis management. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis ManagementVol. 25, Issue 1, pp.7-14.

    Petersen, K., Büscher, M., & Easton, C. (2017). On anonymity in disasters: Socio-technical practices in emergency management. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 17(2), 307–326. Available here.

    Rizza, C., Büscher, M. and Watson, H. (2017) Working with Data: Ethical Legal and Social Considerations Surrounding the Use of Crisis Data and Information Sharing During a Crisis. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management25(1):2-6. Introduction to Special Issue. Available here.

    Kerasidou, Xaroula, Monika Büscher, Michael Liegl, and Rachel Oliphant (2016). Emergency ethics, law, policy & IT innovation in crises, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management(IJISCRAM), Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2016 pp.1-24. Manuscript available here.

    Pottebaum, J., Kuhnert, M., Schäfer, C., Behnke, D., Büscher, M., Petersen, K. and C. Wietfeld (2016). Common Information Space for Collaborative Emergency Management. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security 2016, Boston. 

    Petersen, K., Büscher, M. Kuhnert, M., Schneider, S., Pottebaum, J. (2015). Designing with Users: Co-Design for Innovation in Emergency Technologies. In: Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, (Eds.): Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

    Kerasidou, X., Büscher, M. & Liegl, M. (2015) Don’t Drone? Negotiating Ethics of RPAS in Emergency Response. In: Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, (Eds.): Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

    Liegl, M., Oliphant R. & Büscher, M. (2015). Ethically Aware IT Design for Emergency Response: From Co-Design to ELSI Co-Design. In: Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, Hrsg.: Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

    Perng, S-Y. & Büscher, M. (2015) Uncertainty and Transparency: Augmenting Modelling and Prediction for Crisis Response. In: Palen, Büscher, Comes & Hughes, Hrsg.: Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference- Kristiansand, May 24-27.

    Büscher, Monika, Sung-Yueh Perng, and Michael Liegl (2014) Privacy, Security, Liberty: ICT in Crises.International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) Vol. 6. Issue 4, 2014 pp.72-92. Preprint version available here.

    Büscher, M., Kuhnert, M., Pottebaum, J., Ahlsén, M., Easton, C., Van Veelen, B., Wietfeld, C. (2014). Cloud Ethics for Disaster Response. ELSI Track, Proceedings of the ISCRAM Conference 2014, 289-293. 

    Büscher, M., Bylund, M., Ramirez, L., Sanches, P., Wood, L. (2013) A New Manhattan Project? Interoperability and Ethics in Emergency Response Systems of Systems. In: Comes, T., Fiedrich, F., Fortier, S., Geldermann, F. and Yang, L. (Eds) Proceedings of the 10th International ISCRAM Conference – Baden-Baden, Germany, May 2013, pp. 426-431.