Building a Community of Interest in Communicating Cybersecurity
SPRITE+ Workshop - 27 January 2022
Breakout session 2: What are the next steps and opportunities for collaboration when it comes to communicating cybersecurity?
We have suggested some ideas below to kick start the conversation.| Output | Goal | Short term action | Main beneficiaries |
| Collaborative agenda setting article | Translating/amplifying your existing research to new audiences; setting a research agenda | Hands on Writing together workshop where all co-authors outline the paper | Academics and practitioners who’d like to promote their work to new audiences |
| Peer-reviewed Special Issue | Publishing new research to academic audiences;forming a support group | Peer-review circle, e.g. through shared docs or small meetings | Academics who have some data/arguments ready for publishing novel research |
| Public engagement: a series of blogs, podcasts, videos etc | Promoting your work to specific practitioners | Hands on workshop with a sci communicator where we learn how to craft the message well | Academics and practitioners whose work relates to cyber security and the specific practitioners (i.e. regulators, non-expert office workers) |
| Short term reading group (a series of 4-6 events open to the public where we read papers from our community members) | Promoting your published work | Planning meeting on the format; promotion of the reading group | Academics and practitioners who already published work in the area |
| ‘Peer review’ group | Forming a support group | Planning meeting on the format | Academics and practitioners who are currently writing papers/reports and looking for feedback |
| Mini sandpit | Finding new collaborators;forming a research proposal; gaining funding | Planning meeting on the format | Academics and practitioners who’s like to find new collaborators for new projects |
