7 September 2026
7 September 2026
On 7 September Neil Lawrence gave a keynote at the Financial Times for the launch of the IPPR paper Bottleneck Britain: How digital competition could power UK growth and sovereignty.
The event, Time to Reset: Unlocking Growth and Sovereignty Through Digital Competition, asked how the Competition and Markets Authority’s Digital Markets Unit can use the digital competition regime to support growth across the UK and strengthen tech sovereignty. Neil had advised that unit from 2023 as a member of its independent digital expert group, which has since been disbanded.
17 April 2020
The Royal Society launches DELVE — Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics — to feed data-driven analysis into SAGE. Neil Lawrence helps lead the group; Jessica Montgomery provides secretariat.
4 May 2020
The first DELVE report argues that face coverings, including homemade cloth masks, could reduce community transmission when physical distancing is hard to maintain.
27 May 2020
A DELVE report sets out when TTI can help control COVID-19; Andrei Paleyes and colleagues release open simulation software used in the supporting analysis.
