News & Events related to ALERT members

• May 2026: Dr Carlisle George Chairs virtual evening seminar on Ethical and Legal Aspects of AI, organised by the British Computer Society’s Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (BCS-SGAI).
  
  
• March 2026: Dr Carlisle George deliveres invited AI law lecture in the Department of Digital and Technology Law, Faculty of Law, at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest, Hungary.
  
  
• February 2026: Dr Uchenna Nnawuchi and Dr Carlisle George present paper at virtual conference - "Beyond Bureaucracy 2026: Applied AI in the Criminal Justice System"
  

• December 2025: Dr Carlisle George, co-organiser/chair, Workshop on Ethical and Legal Aspects of AI , Cambridge University, 16th December 2025, (WELAI-2025)
  
  
• November 2025: Dr Carlisle George, co-organiser, Workshop on Ethical and Legal Aspects of Suicide Surveillance Technologies (WELASST 2025), Online, 26th November 2025.

• September 2025: PhD viva success! ALERT Research Group PhD student Mr Farad Jusob passed his PhD viva on Friday 12th September 2025. Title of thesis: “Developing a Framework for mHealth”. Director of Studies: Dr Carlisle George.
  
  
• June 2025: Dr Carlisle George, co-organiser, MDX Health IT Workshop 26-27th June 2025.

• May 2025:PhD viva success! ALERT Research Group PhD student Uchenna Nnawuchi passed his PhD viva on Thursday 8th May 2025. Title of Thesis: AI Governance: Investigating a Rights-based Approach to Explanation in AI. Director of Studies: Dr Carlisle George.

• May 2025:PhD viva success! ALERT Research Group PhD student Adetunj Ademola passed his PhD viva on the Wednesday 7th May 2025,. Title of thesis: “Investigating the interoperability of electronic health records and associated privacy and security issues”. Director of Studies: Dr Carlisle George.

• March 2025:Dr Carlisle George gives invited presentation on AI and Healthcare at the "UK-ASEAN Workshop on Partnership in Health Smart Technologies Powered by Artificial Intelligence" in Vietnam.

• March 2025: PhD viva success! ALERT Research Group PhD student Mr Cephas Mpungu passed his PhD viva on Tuesday 18th March 2025. Title of thesis: “Implementation of Digital Forensics Readiness in Big Data Wireless Medical Networks”. Director of Studies: Dr Carlisle George.
  
  
• April 2023: Dr Carlisle George, co-investigator in £1.12M NIHR Funded Project

• October 2023: DProf viva success! DProf Student Sarah Bell passed her viva on 09 October 2023. Focus of Thesis: A transdisciplinary exploration of (mis)trust and interpretability in the Australian proptech community of practice. Member of Supervisory Team: Dr Carlisle George.

• May 2022: PhD viva success! ALERT Research Group PhD student Ms Nattaruedee Vithanwattana passed her PhD viva on 25th May 2022. Title of Thesis: “Securing mHealth – Investigating the Development of a Novel Information Security Framework". Director of Studies: Dr Carlisle George.
  

• July 2021: PhD viva success! ALERT Research Group PhD student Mr Suraj Juddoo passed his PhD viva on 21st July 2021. Title of Thesis: “Investigating the attainment of optimum data quality for EHR Big Data: proposing a new methodological approach“. Director of Studies: Dr Carlisle George.

• November 2019: Dr Carlisle George, co-organiser Health IT Workshop 2019, London, UK
  
  
• March 2018: Dr Carlisle George, co-organiser: eHealth Workshop 2018, London,

• March 2016: Dr Carlisle George, co-organiser: ICT in Healthcare Workshop 2016, London, UK
  
  
• Feb 2015: IFIP, BCS, MU one-day International workshop on cloud and virtuality
  
  
• December2014: Invited participant at Global Cyberspace Summit V, Berlin, Germany
  
  
• October 2014: eHealth Workshop 2014, London, UK
  
  
• September2014:Members of ALERT start legal and ethical work on SAMi2 project
  
  
• May 2014: Members of ALERT start legal & ethical work on VALCRI Project
  
  
• January 2014:  Legal adviser & national expert - EAHC study on Electronic Health Records
  
  
• March 2013: eHealth Workshop 2013, London, UK
  
  
• July 2012: New edited book (Springer) on eHealth by members of ALERT
  
  
• June 2011: eHealth Workshop 2011, London, UK
  
  
• November 2009: Invited speaker at 'Security in Cyberspace' conference, Serbia

• May 2008: New book on Medical Informatics edited by members of ALERT!
  

• April 2008: Podcasting for Education, invited Speaker

• Febuary 2008: Major EPSRC grant awarded for ethics research

• January 2008: Interview with Internet mirror - Business and Technologies magazine

• November 2007: TELFOR invited Speaker
  
  
• September 2007:Major EU grant awarded for quality assurance project

• August 2007: Workshop - MIMI 2007, Beijing, China
  

• January 2007: Workshop/Conference on IPR in E-Learning, 20th April 2007

• September 2006: ICT in Medicine & Health care: Assessing Social, Ethical & Legal Issues

• May 2006: Information Society: Governance, Ethics and Social Consequences

• March 2006: IPR Workshop 21 March 2006 2006 summary

• January 2006: Promoting Children's Rights and a 'Safe' Internet
  
  
• October 2005: Looking back to the future in Sweden
  
  
• June 2005: JISC invited Speaker
  

• February 2005: IPR in International E-Learning Study
  
  
• February 2004: First Female Chair of IFIP WG9.2

• June 2003: DProf viva success! DProf Student Blay Whitby passed his viva. Title of Thesis: “The Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence”. Director of Studies: Dr Carlisle George.