| PhD Studentship: Secure and Trustworthy AI for Cyber-Physical Systems |
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Birmingham City University invites applications
from candidates with undergraduate (1st class) or master's
qualifications from students with a computer science or related
background with an inclination for exploring boundaries of existing
methods.
Deadline: 25 Apr 2021.
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| PhD Studentship: FAME - Flexible dynamic Access control with ML-powered policies and Explanations |
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A fully funded 3.5-year PhD position is available
to work with Professor Maribel Fernandez (King’s College London) and Dr
Asad Ali (Identity Methods Ltd.). The project is supported by an EPSRC
CASE DTP-conversion award and the successful candidate has the benefit
of spending 6 months working with Identity Methods Ltd. during the PhD.
Deadline: 01 Jun 2021.
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| Not-Equal Network+ Summer School: Social Justice and the Digital Economy, 7-11 June 2021 |
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The summer school
includes a programme of talks, workshops and panel sessions with
leading academic in HCI, Design & Computer Science and more. There
are 20 places available for UK-based early career researchers and
doctoral candidates.
Deadline: 22 Apr 2021.
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| Call for papers: 1st International Workshop on Consent Management in Online Services, Networks and Things (COnSeNT 2021) |
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SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Vitor Jesus and colleagues are organising this workshop.
The COnSeNT workshop welcomes
technical, tecno-legal or socio-technical papers, work-in-progress
reports, industry insights and multi-disciplinary perspectives
describing advances in all areas related to Consent Management.
Deadline: 15 May 2021.
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| Special Collection on Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications with Smart Systems |
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This Special Collection
aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on security and
privacy in computing and communications with smart systems.
Deadline: 31 May 2021.
The collection is co-edited by SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Xiaochun
Cheng.
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| A World of Possibilities: leading the way in cyber and technology |
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Jeremy Fleming, Director GCHQ, delivers the 2021 Vincent Briscoe lecture
for the Institute for Security Science and Technology. Jeremy examines
the challenges surrounding geopolitical competition in technology, and
the need to reform the international approach to cyber and technology
for the 21st century. From cyber power through to combatting Covid-19,
he will explore the UK’s unique opportunity to lead the next phase of
the global digital revolution.
Date and time: 12 Apr 2021, 13:00-14:00 BST.
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| Professor of Cybersecurity wanted - University of Glasgow |
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The successful candidate will take the lead
on the recruitment of a further three academic staff at Lecturer /
Senior Lecturer / Reader level. Together with several existing academic
staff whose research involves various aspects of cybersecurity, these
will form a new Research Section within the School, led by the
successful candidate.
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| Survey of the Digital Economy Theme NetworkPlus |
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The Digital Economy Theme is seeking to better understand
how the community has interacted with the five NetworkPlus grants (of
which SPRITE+ is one) that was supported since 2018. Your views will
help identify what worked well to maximise the success of the
NetworkPlus.
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| Latest Journal Alerts |
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IEEE Security & Privacy, Issue 2, March-April-2021.
International Journal of Information Security, Volume 20, Issue 2.
Network Security, Volume 2021, Issue 3.
Cipher, Electronic Issue (EI) 160, March 22, 2021.
Computers & Security, Volume 104, May 2021.
Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, Volume 17, issue 1.
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| SPRITE+ Sandpit 2021 Coming Soon! |
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We
will invite applications from SPRITE+ Members and Expert Fellows from
any disciplinary background to attend our virtual Sandpit, due to take
place in July 2021. The SPRITE+ 'pump-priming' fund will be used to
support interdisciplinary pilot projects and feasibility studies arising
from this sandpit.
Further details will be published in April.
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| SPRITE+ Member Spotlight – Jill Marshall |
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We continue to publish Career Journey interviews with SPRITE+ Project Partners, Experts, and Members.
The spotlight today is on Jill Marshall – Professor of Law at the Royal Holloway University of London, and a SPRITE+ member.
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| New Career and Funding Opportunities |
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We regularly collate PhD studentships, academic positions, and other opportunities related to digital TIPS.
This
month's round up includes research associate roles in IT law and
statistical cybersecurity, a research fellow role in AI for security
monitoring of e-commerce application, and PhD Studentships in Secure and
Trustworthy AI for Cyber-Physical Systems, the impact of artificial
intelligence (AI) on research and innovation practices, and the Impact
of Hyper Connectivity on Work and Well-being, among others.
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| Call for Expert Fellows from Academia and Professional Practice |
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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.
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| Call for Events and Activities |
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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).
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| Benefits of SPRITE+ Membership |
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Membership
of SPRITE+ is free and open to all with an interest in the future of
security, privacy, identity and trust in the digital age.
We have outlined what SPRITE+ can do for its members in a single post, together with some feedback from past events.
Please feel free to share the link with your networks.
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| SPRITE+ Team Reduced Capacity During Easter |
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The
team will have reduced capacity between 31 March and 9 April. We will
be responding to emails but it might take a bit longer.
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Email us with your news (e.g. jobs, studentships, events, conference
calls, calls for funding, publications, consultations) on
admin@spritehub.org or alert us on Twitter by including ‘@SPRITEPlus’ in
your tweet.
The
newsletter is published every third Wednesday of the month. Deadline to
include your news piece is every second Friday of the month).
https://www.linkedin.com/company/spriteplus
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