Career journeys
Welcome to our Spotlight series, detailing the career journeys of SPRITE+ Members, Expert Fellows, and Project Partners. Learn more about their backgrounds, research and involvement with SPRITE+.
SPRITE+ Team
21st September 2022
Today the spotlight is on the project titled 'Buy Now Pay Later in the UK: Current and emergent digital vulnerabilities'. We got the chance to catch-up with the project team to find out more about the journey of this project.
2nd August 2022
Today the spotlight is on the project titled 'Footprints to emissions: Exploring near-future digital vulnerabilities with creative methodologies'. We got the chance to catch-up with the project team to find out more about the journey of this project.
14th July 2022
Today the spotlight is on the project titled 'Revealing Young Learners' Mental Models of Online Sludge'. We got the chance to catch-up with the project team to find out more about the journey of this project.
6th July 2022
Today the spotlight is on the project titled 'FiVu: Using Design Fiction to Identify Future Vulnerabilities in Bio-IoT'. We got the chance to catch-up with the project PI, Dr Charles Weir, to find out more about the journey of this project.
30th September 2020
Today the spotlight is on Deeph Chana – Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Financial Technology at the Imperial College Business School, Co-Director of the Institute for Security Science Technology (ISST) at the Imperial College London, Co-Founder of the Research Institute in Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems (RITICS), the Founder and Director of a technology development consultancy specialising in critical infrastructure and smart city applications, and a SPRITE+ Co-Director.
Expert Fellows & Members
19th January 2022
The spotlight today is on Julie Gore, Chartered Psychologist, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Director of the Professional Doctorate in Evidence Based Management at Birkbeck, University of London.
13th December 2021
The spotlight today is on Sotiris Moschoyiannis – Reader in Complex Systems at the University of Surrey, and a SPRITE+ member.
17th November 2021
The spotlight today is on Karen Renaud – Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Strathclyde, visiting Professor at the Abertay University, visiting Professor at Rhodes University in South Africa, Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Cyber Security Theme Leader, Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIIS), member of the CyanNetwork, and a SPRITE+ Expert Fellow.
20th October 2021
The spotlight today is on Elvira Perez Vallejos – Associate Professor of Digital Technology and Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, and a SPRITE+ member.
22nd September 2021
The spotlight today is on Simon Scarle – Program Leader for MSc Commercial Games Development at UWE Bristol, researcher in Applied Games Technology visualisation, and a SPRITE+ Member.
Project Partners
29th July 2020
Today the spotlight is on SPRITE+ Project Partner CybSafe. I have recently interviewed Cybsafe’s Head of Behavioural Science Dr. John Blythe, and asked him to talk a bit about his role and Cybsafe's connection to SPRITE+.
20th May 2020
The spotlight today is on one of the SPRITE+ project partners - Yoti. I have recently interviewed Yoti's Director of Regulatory & Policy Julie Dawson, and asked her to talk a bit about her role and Yoti's connection to SPRITE+.