Lachlan D. Urquhart

Dr. Lachlan D. Urquhart is a Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Edinburgh's School of Law. He co-directs the Scottish Research Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (SCRIPT) and leads the Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab. He is a director of the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance, and Privacy (CRISP) and contributes to the Designing Responsible NLP Centre for Doctoral Training and the Institute of Design Informatics.

• Education: LL.B, Hons (Edinburgh); LL.M in IT & Telecoms Law, Distinction (Strathclyde); Ph.D in Computer Science (Nottingham).
• Research Interests: Focus on socio-technical aspects of designing, regulating, and living with emerging information technologies, including AI ethics, IoT, data privacy, cybersecurity, and responsible innovation.
• Projects: Principal Investigator of the £1.2m EPSRC 'Fixing the Future: Right to Repair and Equal-IoT' project; Co-Investigator on £9.75m Responsible NLP AI CDT and £3.2m EPSRC Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance Node.
• Visiting Roles: Turing Fellow (2020-22), Research Fellow at Universitá degli Studi di Milano (2022-23), and visiting researcher at Meiji University (2014).