CGHR Practitioner Series 2026: Philippa Metcalfe
Schedule
Wed Mar 11 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
SG2, Alison Richard Building | Cambridge, EN
About this Event
About the Speaker
Philippa Metcalfe is a researcher whose work focuses on the human impact of border technologies and digital surveillance. She has completed a PhD investigating data justice, where she explored the ways in which technology is used to further border and state violence.
Metcalfe has also worked with groups including the Racial Justice Network’s Stop the Scan campaign, researching biometrics technologies used by the police, as well as TNI to uncover lobbying practices by defence-tech companies during the legislation of the AI Act. More recently, she has worked with Corporate Watch on their project with Privacy International, investigating the use of technologies used across military and civilian contexts.
About the CGHR Practitioner Series
The CGHR Practitioner Series runs each year at the University of Cambridge in Lent term, which often features rights activists, aid practitioners and journalists etc. Our speakers relate stories about their own experience — how they came to work in the field that they are in — with details about what the work itself involves. The session thus offers a combination of substantive discussion of the speaker’s work and critical views on the challenges of working in their area, as well as personal and practical insights into how they ended up doing what they do, and how they would advise others thinking about practice.
Where is it happening?
SG2, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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