Heather Gowans
PhD
Researcher in Law
Dr Heather Gowans works as a Researcher in Law at the HeLEX Centre for Health Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at the University of Oxford. With expertise in EU and UK data protection law and analysis of the implications of sharing administrative data, Heather has provided legal support to the ESRC funded Administrative Data Liaison Service (ADLS) and the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) to develop standards and best practice for the linkage and secondary use of administrative data in the UK. The ADRN is a major partnership between government and academia to improve secure access to administrative data for public benefit research.
Recent publications
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Country Reports.
Journal article
Zawati MH. et al, (2019), J Law Med Ethics, 47, 582 - 704
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GOVERNANCE OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH DATA UNDER THE GDPR— LESSONS FROM THE UK
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MOURBY M., (2019), International Data Privacy Law
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Balancing Data Subjects’ Rights and Public Interest Research:
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Bell J. et al, (2019), European Data Protection Law Review, 5, 43 - 53
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Lawful Disclosure of Administrative Data for Research Purposes in the UK
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BELL J. et al, (2019), The Journal of Data Protection and Privacy
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Are 'Pseudonymised' Data Always Personal Data? Implications of the GDPR for Administrative Data Research in the UK
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(2018), Computer Law and Security Review