Cookies on this website

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click 'Accept all cookies' we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you won't see this message again. If you click 'Reject all non-essential cookies' only necessary cookies providing core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility will be enabled. Click 'Find out more' for information on how to change your cookie settings.

Accept all cookies Reject all non-essential cookies Find out more

Shaping Data Ethics: A Young People’s Deliberative Forum

Tuesday, 15 November 2022

Involving young people to support decision-making

On the 15th November a programme of work run by the Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and the Ethox Centre culminated in an event entitled ‘Shaping Data Ethics: A Young People’s Deliberative Forum’. This forum was a pilot of a process where we access wider voices from members of the public in the Committee’s decision-making process.

The event brought together over 60 students from Henry Box School, Wheatley Park School, and Cherwell School to discuss a live data use-case currently being presented to the VRU’s Data Ethics Committee.

At this forum we posed one central question to the students: Should interventions based on peer network data be implemented in the Thames Valley area?

 

The day was split into 5 sections to help gain an answer to this question: 

  • Introduction- Students were given a general overview of the day and what is at stake within the social contagion use-case (what data it uses, general principles etc) and asked to develop a general set of values (concerns, things they like etc).
  • Facts- Students were presented with the relevant facts, in this instance the possible interventions that might be deployed off the back of the research, and provided opportunities for clarification.
  • Framework- Students considered what they thought mattered to answer the particular question they were being asked.
  • Recommendations- Students developed as tables what they thought they would recommend, and then deliberated as a room discussing their views as a body of people to come to a recommendation.
  • Panel- Students presented their recommendation to a panel of figures, including Supt Dave Horsburgh, South & Vale Local Police Area Commander, Matthew Barber, Police and Crime Commissioner for the Thames Valley, and Supt Stan Gilmour, VRU Director.

EVENT DETAILS:

Location- The Big Data Institute, Oxford

Date- Tuesday, 15 November, 2022; 9 am to 4 pm.

 

You can read more about the event in-

BBC news: Oxford University: Sixth formers discuss using data to prevent violence

Blog post: Shaping Data Ethics: A Young People’s Deliberative Forum