Research articles on DIVERSITY

Beyond silos: Bridging the gap between law and software engineering – challenges, successes, and lesson drawing

Martina Siclari, University of Luxembourg
Salomé Lannier, University of Luxembourg
Olivier Voordeckers, University of Luxembourg
Stanisław Tosza, University of Luxembourg
Sallam Abualhaija, University of Luxembourg
Marcello Ceci, University of Luxembourg
Nicolas Sannier, University of Luxembourg
Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Nov 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.4.2042

Building flexible tools to approach law for interdisciplinary requirements extraction in software engineering.

Who’s at stake? The (non)performativity of “stakeholders” in UK tech policy

Maisy Taylor, University of York
Sarah Vollmer, University of Utrecht
Zaynab Ravat, Solent University
Garfield Benjamin, University of Cambridge
PUBLISHED ON: 4 Sep 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.3.2033

Tech policy often makes appeals to the interests of stakeholders, but in this study we show the different forms of power that are performed through the use of this term in UK tech policy.

Follow along as Members of the European Parliament navigate bias and discrimination in AI and explore their perspectives on regulatory measures, shedding light on the complexities of their understanding and paving the path towards informed policy development.

Cypherpunk

André Ramiro, Law and Technology Research Institute of Recife (IP.rec)
Ruy de Queiroz, Federal University of Pernambuco
PUBLISHED ON: 26 Apr 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.2.1664

Cypherpunk refers to social movements, individuals, institutions, technologies, and political actions that, with a decentralised approach, defend, support, offer, code, or rely on strong encryption systems in order to re-shape social, political, or economic asymmetries. ​

Digitally-disadvantaged languages

Isabelle A. Zaugg, Columbia University
Anushah Hossain, University of California Berkeley
Brendan Molloy, Independent researcher
PUBLISHED ON: 11 Apr 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.2.1654

Digitally-disadvantaged languages face multiple inequities in the digital sphere, with their speaker communities frequently experiencing the duality of digital neglect and surveillance. These languages suffer from gaps in digital support, and when support does exist, it often makes speaker communities vulnerable to surveillance and gaps in content moderation.

“Doing gender” by sharing: examining the gender gap in the European sharing economy

Thomas Eichhorn, German Youth Institute
Christian Hoffmann, Leipzig University
Katharina Heger, Freie Universität Berlin
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Mar 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1627

This study applies a “doing gender” perspective and intersectionality theory to examine the gendered access to the European sharing economy.