Administrative Fairness Lab awarded funding from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account for project on government data gaps

News | Posted on Thursday 17 November 2022

The Administrative Fairness Lab has been awarded a grant from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account to support work on a thematic project entitled “The Laws of Data Gaps.”

The research will explore why so many data gaps exist in relation to administrative processes and the different roles that law can play in this respect.

The project is in partnership with the Public Law Project–a national legal charity. As part of the award, Naoise Coakely will join the Lab to undertake an MA by Research degee, being co-located between the Lab and the Public Law Project.