Hannah Smith

Dr Hannah Smith is a Research Fellow at the UWA Tech & Policy Lab at the University of Western Australia. Her work contributes to a cross-disciplinary exploration of the implications of technological advances to develop responses that ensure technology serves the needs of citizens, rather than the other way around. Hannah’s research explores novel governance mechanisms to respond to the opportunities and risks presented by emerging technologies. This draws on her doctoral work undertaken at the University of Oxford where she explored legal and societal approaches towards reusing administrative data in research. She remains committed to exploring the implications of divergences between law and society for the law's legitimacy to advocate for a greater inclusion of the citizen in the legislative process.

Previously, Hannah was a Research Fellow on the University of Oxford’s project on ‘Unlocking the Potential of Artificial Intelligence for English Law’, which explored how justice data could be shared with researchers and legal-tech start-ups in a way that protected and promoted the rights and interests of individuals and interned at Policy Lab, part of the Cabinet Office within the UK Government where she explored data-driven, human-centred, and design-oriented approaches to policy-making. She received her BA in Jurisprudence, BCL, MSt in Socio-Legal Research, and DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Oxford.