SPRITE+ Showcase Highlights

Digital Technologies, Power & Control Challenge Working Group host their first stakeholder meeting

Call for Events and Activities

Call for Expert Fellows from Academia and Professional Practice

New Career and Funding Opportunities

SPRITE+ Member Spotlight – Duncan Greaves

SPRITE+ Members - News and Publications

IASME Kickstart Scheme

Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) Postgraduate Programme

Special Issue "Techniques and Protocols to Preserve and Enhance Privacy" (fees can be waived)

From Contact to Credibility: A Conversation About Trusted Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Certification for Covid and Beyond

Report: Decoupling Human Characteristics from Algorithmic Capabilities

DataImpact2021: #IdentityInData: Who counts? Visibility, voice and culture in data collection and reuse

The Future of Authentication by IEEE UK&I Cyber Security

Defence and Security Psychology Conference Call

Computers & Security Volume 101, February 2021

Computers & Security Volume 102, March 2021

Journal of Information Security and Applications Volume 56, February 2021

Journal of Information Security and Applications Volume 57, March 2021

International Journal of Information Security. Volume 20, Issue 1

RISCS Newsletter - December/January

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The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new job placements for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.

The LINAS Doctoral Training Programme (DTP) seeks to develop a cohort of Doctoral Scholars who can address the implications of massive-scale data processing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for both the actual operation of algorithmically driven public decision-making in wider society, and within science and engineering.

Our Expert Fellow Siamak F. Shahandashti is a guest editor on the special issue "Techniques and Protocols to Preserve and Enhance Privacy".

As guest editor he can invite feature papers and hence waive publication fees, so if any SPRITE+ Members would like to submit a full version of a previous workshop or conference paper, please get in contact with him.

You will hear from experts on multiple issues related to COVID technologies, Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Certification, and CTA/CTT issues at large.

The recorded webinar is now available on demand.

This report opens a conversation about decoupling anthropomorphic language from discussions around artificial intelligence in efforts to give agency to the public and decision makers.

The report is available via IEEE Standards Association.

The UK Data Service brings together some of the most robust and complex quantitative and qualitative survey data produced by research institutions, governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the UK and internationally.

The event takes place online on 24 Feb 2021 at 10:30-12:30.

In this talk Dr Max Smith-Creasey will explore the emerging technologies that will change the way we authenticate ourselves in the future.

This online event will take place on 1 Feb 2021 at 15:00–16:00 GMT.

The theme for this year's conference is: Defence and Security Psychology in a Changing World.

Submissions are welcomed on the following topics: 1) The Psychology of Engagement and Relationship Building in Complex Environments; 2) The modernisation of Defence and Security through AI and Automation.

Submission deadlines: Symposia, Oral Presentations, Impact Paper and Workshop submissions - 10.00am, Monday 22 February 2021; Poster Submissions - 10.00am, Monday 22 March 2021

The issue includes articles on anonymity, countering shoulder-surfing attacks, cyber insurance, and incident response.

This issue is about time synchronization in NTP, quantitative cyber-physical security analysis methodology, and risk assessment and resilience, among other things.

The issue includes several applications of machine learning in cybersecurity, as well as random number generation, and blockchain.

The issue includes articles on biometrics, weaponized AI, and cybersecurity behavioral habits, among other things.

This issue includes articles on data aggregation, quality of threat intelligence, classification of Android malware, and more.

Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security has published its newsletter covering the invite for RISCS Showcase (18 Mar 2021, 10:00-12:00), New Emerging Insights Paper (our SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Jason Nurse is one of the authors!), 2FA roll-out within a HE institution, Fifth Annual VeTSS Call for Proposals, and RISCS Project in Pulse December '20 edition. RISCS Project Research Team has also won the Best Paper Award (inc. our SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Shujun Li!).

We hosted our first event of 2021 in the form of a virtual showcase, including presentations from the SPRITE+ funded Challenge Working Groups and short Project Teams, breakout discussions, Research Snapshots (posters and lightning talks) and networking.

We welcomed close to 100 individual attendees over the course of the day, representing a range of disciplines, career stages and organisations from academia and professional practice.

We’ve created this very short feedback questionnaire. If you have a spare 5 minutes, we’d be grateful if you could please share your views. Your feedback will be used to help us plan future events.

In case you were unable to join us, we are pleased to share the outputs in our blog (link below).

On 14th December 2020, the Digital Technologies, Power and Control Challenge Working Group held a meeting with over 25 stakeholders interested in identifying challenges and good practice around working with marginalised communities.

At the event, they discussed how marginalised voices are being heard (or not being heard) and about ways to empower communities with knowledge to make informed choices about future technologies.

Follow the link below to find out more.

We are offering logistical support to help organise the activity and will make available up to £5,000 of funding per activity to cover associated costs (e.g., travel, materials, professional facilitation/online production costs, data access).

Follow the link below to find out more.

We are seeking new Fellows to join a diverse group of experts, each bringing deep expertise and creative thinking to SPRITE+ activities, and together providing a broad, challenging and informed range of viewpoints on TIPS in digital contexts.


Follow the link below to find out more.

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

This month we've added Research Associate opportunities at the University of Bristol and Northumbria University, Lectureship positions at Cardiff University and University of Strathclyde, and PhD studentship at the University of Edinburgh.
We've also added DEAS network+ funding call, and the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Pump-Priming Fund.

Follow the link below to check all pupblished opportunities (log into SPRITEHub to access).

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

The spotlight today is on Duncan Greaves – TOGAF certified enterprise architect, CISSP Security Practitioner, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert in Business Intelligence, Tutor in Cybersecurity and Computer Science at CU Scarborough, and a SPRITE+ member.

Every month we ask SPRITE+ members to share their news with the community. All previous publications from members are available on SPRITEHub.

Thank you to Seyedmostafa Safavi who has shared his recent interview on "The Healthcare Industry Subject to Cyberattacks as it Deals with Covid-19".

Thank you to Nadine Michaelides who has shared 2 blogs with us published by the Info Security Group:
- "Transitioning into Cyber Space", and
- "Can Cyber Hygiene Lead to a Cyber Secure Attitude?"

Congratulations to Jonathan Foster and colleagues who have had 2 papers accepted to the following conferences:
- “An investigation into the role of information governance in mitigating the risks of money laundering: A case study of the Omani banking sector”, iConference, 17-31 March, 2021, Beijing, China [Virtual].
- “Understanding the end-user’s role in value co-creation within innovation ecosystems: A global south perspective”, The Future of Digital Work: The Challenge of Inequality, IFIP JWC, 10-11 December, Hyderabad, India [Virtual].

Congratulations to Marion Oswald who provided us with the following 2 articles:
- The COVID-19 Contact Tracing App In England and ‘Experimental Proportionality’ avilable at SSRN.
- Not ‘Very English’ - on the Use of the Polygraph by the Penal System in England and Wales in The Journal of Criminal Law.

Congratulations to Vitor Jesus who has had his paper recenlty accepted:
"User-Controlled, Auditable, Cross-Jurisdiction Sharing of Healthcare Data Mediated by a Public Blockchain", The 19th IEEE Intl Conf on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2020), Guangzhou, China, December 29, 2020 - January 1, 2021

Congratulations to Karen Renaud whose paper is to appear soon in Information and Computer Security Journal:
The “Three M’s” Counter-Measures to Children’s Risky Online Behaviours: Mentor, Mitigate and Monitor by Karen Renaud, Suzanne Prior

Thank you to Benoît Dupont who has been recently interviewed on how COVID-19 is impacting global digital crime.

Congratulation to Xiaochun Cheng who has had his paper recently published:
A Fuzzy Adaptive Dynamic NSGA-II With Fuzzy-Based Borda Ranking Method and its Application to Multimedia Data Analysis by IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.

Congratulations to Iain Reid who has had his newest paper published:
Design Thinking for Cyber Deception in Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Congratulations to John McAlaney on his new published paper:
Interdisciplinary Lessons Learned While Researching Fake News by Frontiers in Psychology.

Congratulations to Shujun Li and the team of UK researchers who won the Best Paper Award at the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2021)! The award-winning work is titled “Privacy in Transport? Exploring Perceptions of Location Privacy Through User Segmentation”.