Professor Nigel Davies
Head of Department, Distinguished ProfessorResearch Overview
My research focuses on ensuring user privacy in future pervasive environments. Recent research is focused on: the use of privacy mediators to provide users with simple mental models or privacy boundaries (joint work with CMU); privacy aware personalisation and analytics for smart environments; developing new models of user consent based on delegation (joint work with Edinburgh) and more speculative work on understanding the future security and privacy risks in future augmented memory systems (joint work with USI, Switzerland). I also lead Lancaster’s involvement in exploring the use of Blockchain technologies in novel application domains including supporting new forms of charitable giving and providing patients with control over the use of their health data. We have a long history of research in privacy for pervasive computing dating back to the highly cited (427 cites) paper “Preserving privacy in environments with location-based applications”, G Myles, A Friday, N Davies - IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2003.
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Test Environment for a national network of TREs (TETREs)
01/10/2025 → 31/03/2026
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DCQ: Cyber Security of Digital Medical Devices: Establishing UK Capability for a New Design and Development Route
01/07/2025 → 31/12/2027
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DSI: Lancaster and South Cumbria Secure Data Environment (LSC-SDE) - Research Infrastructure Engineer extension
01/05/2025 → 31/03/2026
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TREvolution (Mike Harding)
01/03/2025 → 31/03/2027
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DSI: Late-stage commercialisation for time-of-flight neutron spectrometer
01/10/2024 → 30/09/2026
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DSI: Late-stage commercialisation for time-of-flight neutron spectrometer
01/10/2024 → 30/09/2026
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DSI: Lancaster and South Cumbria Secure Data Environment - Research Infrastructure Engineer (extension) - Extension to IRD7252XS01
12/08/2024 → 31/03/2025
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DSI: Lancaster and South Cumbria Secure Data Environment - Research Infrastructure Engineer
01/06/2024 → 31/08/2024
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DSI: Lancaster and South Cumbria Secure Data Environment - Research Infrastructure Engineer
13/11/2023 → 12/08/2024
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DSI: HS 1.052_D - LISA (Low-impact soldier augmentation) continuation
01/09/2023 → 31/03/2025
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EPSRC Capital Award for Core Equipment Award 2022/23
03/01/2023 → 02/04/2023
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DSI: LISA: Low Impact Soldier Augmentation HS 1.052
01/10/2022 → 28/02/2023
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Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions
01/12/2021 → 31/03/2022
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SL: Institutional Sponsorship-International Partnerships
01/09/2021 → 31/03/2022
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Can we improve building management and reduce carbon footprint through a mesh network of indoor air quality sensors?
01/01/2021 → 01/01/2024
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Future Places: A Digital Economy Centre on Understanding Place Through Pervasive Computing
01/10/2020 → 28/02/2026
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PETRAS Catalyser Project CEDE
01/06/2020 → 31/05/2021
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TrackWater 2.0
01/12/2019 → 31/01/2021
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Civic Data Identity Partnership
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2022
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DSI: Collaborative research on Human Memory Augmentation with Earables
01/04/2019 → 31/03/2020
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H-unique: In search of uniqueness - harnessing anatomical hand variation
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2024
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PETRAS 2 CORE
01/01/2019 → 30/09/2023
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Idice
01/05/2018 → 31/08/2019
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EnvChain - Exploring the viability of using blockchain-based approaches to build trust in the creation, audit and use of synthesised data products to support a broad range of environmental data use cases
01/02/2018 → 31/03/2018
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Resolving Conflicts in Public Spaces - ReCoPS
01/10/2017 → 31/08/2019
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TrackWater: Supporting High-Value, Low-Cost Rail Network Drainage Asset Management
01/10/2017 → 31/03/2019
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Digital Threads : Towards Personalised Craft Production in Malay Cottage Industries
14/02/2017 → 13/02/2019
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H2020: AffecTech - Personal Technologies for Affective Health
01/01/2017 → 31/03/2021
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Ox-Chain: Towards secure and trustworthy circular economies through distributed ledger technologies
01/09/2016 → 31/10/2020
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PACTMAN: Trust and Consent in Future Pervasive Environments (DSI)
01/09/2016 → 28/02/2020
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Freight Traffic Control 2050: transforming the energy demands of last-mile urban freight through collaborative logistics
01/04/2016 → 30/08/2019
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Cyber Security of the Internet of things
28/02/2016 → 31/08/2019
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Mobile Age
01/02/2016 → 31/01/2019
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Data-Driven Precision Surface Water Management for Urban Environments
01/09/2015 → 31/05/2017
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Institutional Sponsorship 2015
01/06/2015 → 31/03/2016
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IAA: Intouch
01/12/2014 → 30/10/2015
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RECALL: Enchanced Human Memory Recall
01/11/2013 → 31/10/2016
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Supporting Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Maintenance (Research in the Wild)
30/04/2013 → 31/01/2015
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FAITH: Building Trust between Citizens, Local Authorities and Contractors
01/05/2011 → 28/02/2014
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FP7: PD-NET
01/05/2010 → 31/07/2013
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Jenny Bark
Hosting an academic visitor
Best Paper Honourable Mention Award ACM CHI 2020
Prize (including medals and awards)
- CeMoRe - Centre for Mobilities Research
- Centre for Global Eco-innovation
- Cyber Security Research Centre (Pervasive Systems)
- DSI - Foundations
- Energy Lancaster
- Micro:bit Innovation and Research Lab
- Pervasive Systems (SCC)