Our activities will include:

• mapping the use of data scores based on desk-based research (media reports, industry material, FOI requests)
• a one-day workshop with invited experts, practitioners and stakeholders. Stakeholders in this case are public sector employees, civil society groups working with data (eg Open Rights Group) and/or working with issues pertaining to provision of relevant services (eg Citizens Advice Bureau, student and teachers unions, Migrants' rights network).
• interviews with practitioners (from government departments and local authorities) within specific governance contexts (to be determined from the initial mapping exercise and opening workshop)
• interviews with experts (data analysts, policy experts, and civil society groups).
• journalistic training for reporting on data processes through an organized training session with journalism scholars and practice-based lecturers in Cardiff’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture.

Our outputs will include:

• a publicly accessible interactive map with a systematic review of the uses of data scores in UK (and European) government sectors
• a research report on the project findings publicly available through the Data Justice Lab website and circulated to practitioners, civil society groups and other stakeholders
• policy recommendations addressing the implications of data scores as governance, focusing on issues relating to privacy, discrimination and universal access
• academic publications in the form of peer-reviewed open access journal articles as well as publications for other interested audiences via sites such as The Conversation and Opendemocracy.