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Non-Academic Stakeholders Needed for the Institute for Security Science & Technology (ISST) Careers Fair

Looking for People Interested in the Protecting Citizens Online Bid

Privacy in Statistical Databases 2020 (PSD 2020) Conference

Diversity and Inclusion in the UK Cyber Workforce Survey

Call for Proposals: Economics and Incentives in Cyber Security

Cyber Crime Research Map 2020

Digital Healthcare Show, 24-25th June 2020 at ExCeL, London

12th Annual Web Science Conference (WebSci20)

Human Social Science Research Capability Framework

Funding competition for CyberASAP

Exhibition: Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication

Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO 2020)

Special Issue on Intelligent Perception, Application and Security Mechanism in the IoT

3rd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments

7th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC2020)

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Full papers containing either original technical contributions or high-quality surveys are sought on topics like anonymization methods and practices, on-site and remote data access, and disclosure, among others. More info here: https://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020/

The NCSC and KPMG UK are working together to launch an annual Diversity and Inclusion Survey. The NCSC–KPMG Diversity and Inclusion survey for the UK Cyber Security industry can be completed by anyone who works or has worked in a cyber security role. This is a short survey that will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. The survey can be accessed here: https://feedback.kpmgcx.cloud/WebProd/cgi-bin/askiaext.dll?Action=StartSurvey&SurveyName=NCSC_IndividualDiversity&Grp=8mu3fgkb

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), working in collaboration with the Research Institute in Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS), is inviting proposals for research into the economics of, and incentives for cyber security. More info here: https://www.riscs.org.uk/economics-and-incentives-funding-call/

A partial list/map of cybercrime research that is being carried out in Scotland and the wider UK, including international research involving Scottish or UK institutions. Kindly provided by Francesca Gualco (Francesca.Gualco@gov.scot), who can answer further queries about it. The map itself can be accessed through SPRITEHub Resources: https://spritehub.org/resources/

The Digital Healthcare Show offers genuine engagement with thousands of senior decision-makers from the NHS and the entire procurement chain. More info here: https://www.digitalhealthcareshow.com/

The 12th International ACM Conference on Web Science in 2020 (WebSci’20) is an interdisciplinary conference where a multitude of research disciplines converge with the purpose of creating a greater insight into a complex global Web than the sum of their individual parts. More info here: https://websci20.webscience.org/

BAE Systems leads, manages and delivers externally provided human, behavioural and social sciences research for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), MOD and Other Government Departments (OGDs). More info here: https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/product/human-and-social-science-research-capability--hssrc-

Deadline: 06 March 2020. Academics in a UK institution can apply for a share of £800,000 to join CyberASAP. More info here: https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/funding-competition-announced-for-year-4-of-the-cyber-security-academic-startup-accelerator-programme-cyberasap

Copy That? Is the ODI’s Data as Culture research and partnership season for 2019–2020. It encompasses an exhibition at the ODI and separate but interconnected installations, performances and events at our HQ and elsewhere. More info here: https://theodi.org/event/copy-that-surplus-data-in-an-age-of-repetitive-duplication-2/

15 June 2020, Genoa, Italy. The workshop welcomes mono-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary submissions on quantitative and qualitative analyses of cyber-crime operations; fully in scope to the Workshop are contributions focussing on the technical, criminological, psychological, economic, and law dimensions of cybercrime. More info here: https://wacco-workshop.eu

One fees waiver will be offered to next high quality relevant paper from "advanced countries", such as UK. Special Issue on "Intelligent Perception, Application and Security Mechanism in the Internet of Things". Deadline for manuscript submissions is 28 May 2020. More info here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/ipasm_iot.

The guest editor for the issue, Dr. Xiaochun Cheng is part of our network. You can get in touch with him via SPRITEHub.

EAI SPNCE 2020 will take place in Lyngby, Denmark on July 27-28, 2020. More info here: http://spnce.org/

Thanks to our network's Xiaochun Cheng for pointing it out.

Paper submssison: 31 Jul 2020. BESC2020 will take place in Bournemouth United Kingdom, 5-7 November, 2020. The conference is organized by Bournemouth University, UK. Papers are invited in the areas of Social Computing and Applications, Digital Humanities, Behavioral and Economic Computing, User Modeling, Privacy, and Ethics, and Information Management and Systems. More info here: http://besc-conf.org/2020/call_for_papers.html.

Thanks to our network's John McAlaney for point this one out.

https://forum.spritehub.org/

SPRITEHub now hosts members-only discussion boards, where you can chat to your fellow members and experts, make comments and suggestions for the SPRITE+ Admins, and collaborate on projects in a members-only environments.

Visit https://forum.spritehub.org/ (also accessible through the SPRITEHub Members Portal) to participate. Log in with your existing SPRITEHub credentials - no extra registrations required.

https://forum.spritehub.org/c/fintech/15

The new FinTech category is for everyone who is interested in financial technologies. Come together and discuss related news and events, propose collaborations, and get to know each other!

There are plans to host an event for active members some time later this year - watch the space to find out more!

Send all your feedback to: https://forum.spritehub.org/t/community-wishlist-things-to-add-remove-and-change/35

With the opening of the SPRITEHub discussion boards we now have a dedicated thread where you can add your feedback about SPRITE+ and tell us how we are doing.

ISST is hosting a careers fair for its security and resilience MSc students: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/security-institute/education/msc/

The fair is planned for ISST MSc students on Wednesday 11th March 2020 (PM) at the White City campus, Imperial College London. Please get in touch with Zarine Khurshid (z.khurshid@imperial.ac.uk) for more info.

Send a message to Kovila Coopamootoo on SPRITEHub

Our network's own Kovila Coopamootoo is looking to connect with people interested in the Protecting Citizens Online bid. Kovila's main area is Usable Privacy, and you can get in touch through SPRITEHub to learn more: https://spritehub.org/activity/.