The SPRITE+ Team will be away for a couple of weeks over the festive period

SPRITE+ Showcase: Agenda confirmed

Digital Technologies, Power & Control Challenge Working Group publish new blog

SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Spotlight – Bernd Stahl

New Career and Funding Opportunities

Setting Up RSS Feed for SPRITEHub

SPRITE+ Members - News and Publications

Research Associate for Digital Trust and Security Wanted

Digital Technologies, Power and Control is hiring!

Journal of Information Security and Applications Alert

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)

Computers & Security

SOUPS 2021 Preliminary Call for Papers

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A Research Associate is required to work on the Privacy, Trust and Data Protection project within the Digital Trust and Security programme. The project is led by Professor Mark Elliot and the wider programme is directed by Professor Emma Barrett as one of the Digital Futures themes at the University of Manchester.

Deadline: 05 Jan 2021.

More info here.

The Open University is looking for a Research Associate in Human Computer Interaction to join SPRITE+ Digital Technologies, Power and Control challenge working group!

The research will enrich understanding between citizens and companies and include playing a lead role in the design, conduct, analysis and dissemination of a feasibility test aimed at exploring how people from tech savvy marginalised communities interact with digital technologies.

Deadline: 11 Jan 2021, at 12:00.

More info here.

Volume 55, December 2020 issue includes articles on crypto, authentication, anomaly detection, phishing, denial of service, cybersecurity frameworks, and other topics.

Volume 24, Issue 1, (November 2020) includes articles on behavioural security, data integrity, risk thinking, and adaptive cyber defence.

Volume 100, January 2021 includes articles on authentication, blockchain, 5G, and more.

The Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2021) will take place on August 8–10, 2021, and will be co-located with the 30th USENIX Security Symposium in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Mandatory Paper Registration Deadline: Thursday, 18 Feb 2021.

More info here.

The team will be away from 18 December, returning on 4 January 2021. We wish you a peaceful holiday season and success and happiness in 2021!

We are hosting a virtual showcase event on 14 January 2021. This will be a full day interactive virtual event and will provide a platform for academics and stakeholders from government, law enforcement and business to discuss recent research findings, follow on activities and impact generation. Follow the link for the full agenda and to register.

Dr Vitor Jesus (Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Birmingham City University) has written the first blog in this series, entitled 'So how do you define (Cyber) Security again?'.

We continue to publish Career Journey interviews with SPRITE+ Project Partners, Experts, and Members.

The spotlight today is on Bernd Stahl – Professor of Critical Research in Technology, Director of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, and a SPRITE+ Expert Fellow.

We regularly collate PhD opportunities and academic position adverts related to digital TIPS.

This month we've added PhD studentships from Edinburgh and Glasgow, as well as Turing Artificial Intelligence World-Leading Researcher Fellowships, and Development of the Digital Security by Design Software Ecosystem SME fast-start short-term projects competition by Innovate UK.

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Every month we ask SPRITE+ members to share their news with the community.

Congratulations to Dirk van der Linden and the team, whose article on "Cybersecurity for smart farming: socio-cultural context matters" was published in IEEE Technology & Society Magazine 39(4).

Congratulations to Gilad L. Rosner, who has been invited to give a talk to the UN Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations on the politics and problems of facial recognition technology.

Congratulations to Elvira Perez Vallejos, Ansgar Koene, and the team at ReEnTrust who have recently hosted a webinar on rebuilding and enhancing trust in algorithms. The write up is available on Policy Connect.

Plenty of publications from Ansgar Koene, including an interview about his work, a podcast on content moderation and mis/disinformation, a panel discussion at the Internet Governance Forum on "How do you embed trust and confidence in AI", and a webinar on AI - Security & Challenges.

Thank you to Paul Timmers who have shared his recent blog post with us: When Sovereignty Leads and Cyber Law Follows - an insightful view into the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS Directive) - one of the most important pieces of cyber legislation in the EU.

Thank you to Florian Pouchet and the team for sharing their recent blog on Identity Control Tower Model: Creating a Seamless and Secure User Experience, looking at different ways identity is managed in an enterprise.

Congratulations to Jason Nurse who appeared on BBC Radio 4 discussing the Cyber Attack on Manchester United Football Club (from 40:25).

Congratulations to Karin S. Moser who has recently given an interview on Tech Talk Radio about about our research remote working during Covid19 and impact of digital media on wellbeing and productivity. You can also check Karin's insightful research on increased screen time and its effect on productivity.