Lucille Tetley-Brown is a Senior Research Associate at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV). She has been affiliated with the UNU-EGOV, involved with multiple initiatives, since 2020.
Lucille is a sociologist, specialising on ‘work culture’, data-use and decision-making in the digital age. She is also a qualified sustainability professional, with experience spanning local and global expertise.
She has extensive experience in applied sustainability (economic, environmental, social, institutional) across a multitude of sectors. Lucille's primary specialism covers data-driven public service delivery and smart cities, with her recent practitioner work and academic research focusing on digital transformation at the local government level.
She has published across a range of topics related to sustainability, science and technology studies and e-Government. In addition, she has held a policy support role for the Scottish Government within their Digital Directorate (2022-23), a researcher post for Dundee University (2023-25), and is a Research Affiliate at the University of Glasgow, supporting the delivery of lectures and workshops about Digital Society.
Lucille has an extensive career history, sitting on many advisory boards and expert panels across multiple initiatives, such as: the United Kingdom’s Reproducibility Network (UKRN) Special Interest Group on Qualitative Research (2025); Scotland Universities Insight Institute's 'Valuing Public Sector Data in Scotland and Europe' workshop and conference series (2023-24); the ‘Unlocking the Value of Data’ Programme (2022-23); Metrolab, the global ecosystem of researchers and innovative local government leaders (2019); University of Stirling, for the SmartGov Programme, a comparative research initiative across three case study cities (Glasgow UK, Utrecht Netherlands, Curitiba Brazil) assessing ICTs’ value engaging citizens in sustainable cities' governance (2017-2019); Scottish Cities Alliance Smart and Low Carbon Programme (2014-2017); and, the Open and Agile Smart Cities Network (2015-2022).
Additionally, she is qualified as an advanced education instructor (‘DAT-HE’ at the University of Glasgow, 2021), and has delivered training on multiple e-Government topics, such as data-driven public service delivery, smart city projects, data work practices - covering open, safe-guarded, controlled data and in alignment to GDPR requirements. Lucille is skilled in translating complex conceptual and scientific ideas to practice, then working with policy-makers and implementers across legal and policy ecosystems to increase local level capability in delivery of strategic intentions.
Lucille holds a Ph.D. from the the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, U.K., entitled ‘Data Use Promises and Practices: Exploring Scottish local government data work culture’. She obtained her MSc in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Sweden’s Lund University, and also holds a degree in Law from the University of Oxford.