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Dr Angela Paul

Research Fellow

Department: Northumbria Law School

Dr Angela Paul is a Research Fellow on the PROBabLE Futures project at Northumbria Law School, funded by UKRI Responsible AI UK. This project examines the use of probabilistic uses of technology in the criminal justice system, and the team consists of experts in law, computer science, and human-computer interaction. Angela specifically looks at the legal and ethical issues of these technologies.

Angela completed her BSc (Hons) in Economics from Queen's University Belfast before going on to achieve a distinction grade in her LLM in International Human Rights Law from Lancaster University, UK. She then completed her PhD in Law at Northumbria University, with her thesis exploring the human rights implications associated with the use of police drones for surveillance purposes in England and Wales. Angela has also worked at the University of York, as a Research Associate at the Administrative Fairness Lab. This project was funded by the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre. 

Angela's research interests centre around the following areas of law and technology:

  • Algorithmic Decision Making 
  • Digital Evidence
  • Criminal Justice
  • Human Rights Law
  • Policing 
  • Technology-Facilitated Abuse
  • Administrative Fairness 
  • Vulnerability
Angela Paul

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Bias, Oswald, M., Paul, A. 17 Mar 2025, De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology, Berlin, Germany, De Gruyter
  • X, Paul, A. 17 Mar 2025, De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology, Berlin, Germany, De Gruyter
  • Are Statutory Duties to Protect the ‘Vulnerable’ a Good Idea?, Tomlinson, J., Paul, A., Meers, J. 16 Apr 2024
  • Evaluating (semi)-autonomous systems in policing and national security: A new framework based on the concept of ‘intelligence’: A new matrix framework of evaluation and grading, based on lessons from existing processes designed to define and assess ‘intelligence’, Oswald, M., Chambers, L., Paul, A. 11 Jul 2023, TAS '23, New York, US, ACM

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Visiting an external academic institution: Monash University 2025
  • Oral presentation: British and Irish Law Education Technology Association (BILETA) Conference 2023 2023
  • Oral presentation: British and Irish Law Education Technology Association (BILETA) Conference 2023 2023
  • Oral presentation: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Information Law and Policy Centre Annual Conference 2022 2022
  • Membership of network: Socio-Legal Studies Association (External organisation) 2022
  • Other: Written expert statement on new technologies and the application of law to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee. 2021
  • Other: Written expert statement on possible issues arising from emerging technological developments in policing to the Independent Advisory Group on Emerging Technologies in Policing to Scottish Government 2021

  • Law PhD May 23 2024
  • Law LLM October 01 2019
  • Education BSc (Hons) June 30 2017
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy AFHEA 2024


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