Events:

SPRITE+ Showcase: Registration Now Open

RISCS Community Workshop in Secure Development Practices

Digital Responsibility Reading Programme

Not-Equal Award Showcase

Opportunities:

SPRITE+ Showcase: Call for Research Snapshots

SPRITE+ Events and Activities Call

Call for Expert Fellows from Academia and Professional Practice

Send us Your Top TIPS Journals, Conferences, and Publications!

Identifying technologies that will be important to the UK in 2040 and beyond

New Job Opportunities Published on SPRITEHub

What Makes Convergence Work? A Research Invitation

TAS is Looking for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Practices Public Resources

News:

New SPRITE+ Project Announced!

SPRITE+ Future Payment Systems Working Group Engages with Policymakers in Financial, Economic and Data Protection Regulation

Resources Added to Writing Successful Grant Applications

SPRITE+ Member Spotlight – Judith Aldridge!

SPRITE+ First Rising Stars Blog Published

SPRITE+ Members - News and Publications

Welcome to REPHRAIN

International Journal of Information Security - ToC Alert

Why Do People Share Disinformation On Social Media?

Call for Papers:

6TH IEEE EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON SECURITY AND PRIVACY

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This workshop will take the first steps towards creating a community to tackle the problem of integrating security into a design and development practices.

09 Nov 2020, 13:00-17:00 GMT

Please register for the event via this Eventbrite link.

Starting on 03 Nov 2020, a series of 4 online sessions will take place to examine notions of digital responsibility: what it is, what it might be and what it is not.

Sessions will run on a Tuesday 4.00pm-5.30pm GMT via Zoom.

More info here.

Join the Not-Equal NetworkPlus to celebrate the launch of 7 new projects exploring practical responses to help create the conditions for technologies to support social justice.

12 Nov 2020, 10:30 – 14:30 GMT

See the event schedule and register here.

As part of UKRI’s ongoing horizon scanning activities, they are crowdsourcing ideas from key stakeholders regarding technologies that will be important to the UK in the future.

Please share your ideas via the very short survey here. Please direct any questions to Simone Boekelaar, Head of Horizon Scanning, Innovate UK.

SPRITE+ welcomes the new UKRI funded National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online (REPHRAIN).

The Centre will develop a wide range of tools to keep people safe and informed online.

More info here.

We regularly publish new job opportunities on SPRITEHub.

Check the latest ones here.

A CREST-funded PhD student Emma Boakes is seeking security professionals to be part of an expert group to establish the elements of a converged security function that are considered most important to its effectiveness.

Get in touch with Emma Boakes directly to find out more.

The emphasis is on papers related to building or attacking practical systems, even better if actually deployed, rather than presenting purely theoretical results.

We hope to increase the acceptance rate of papers that are more far-reaching and risky, as long as those papers also show sufficient promise for creating interesting discussions and questioning widely-held beliefs.

Papers that shed new light on past results by means of sound theory or through experimentation are also welcome.

Submission deadline:05 Nov 2020.

More info here.

Volume 9, Issue 6 includes papers related to authentication.

Check the issue here.

Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) has published this poliy brief based on 4 scenario-based self-report studies with over 2,600 participants.

The Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub is looking for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) resources not already present on EPSRC website.

Get in touch with Elvira Perez to find out more and get involved.

Join us for our virtual showcase event to learn about the research conducted by the SPRITE+ Challenge Working Groups and recently funded Project Teams.

In addition to discussion and networking, we will host a series of research snapshot presentations.

This interactive event 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.

Applications are open to present a ‘research snapshot’ (a lightning talk plus a poster) at the virtual SPRITE+ Showcase on 14 January 2021. This is a fantastic opportunity to share your research with the SPRITE+ community including academic experts, stakeholders and project partners.

We are supporting our Members and Expert Fellows who wish to lead events or activities relevant to TIPS in the Digital Economy.

We are offering logistical support and up to £5,000 per activity to cover the associated costs. Learn more by following the link.

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.

See more information here.

We are delighted to announce the final project funded via our Sandpit on Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security in the post-Covid Digital Economy.

Dr Ozlem Ulgen will lead a project entitled ‘God, the Oracle, and the Nightclub Bouncer: Can human dignity be modelled in an AI-based decision support system for post-Covid health certification?’

Congratulations to Ozlem and the team!

Based on their research findings, the team has submitted responses to public consultations, including the European Data Protection Board's consultation on the second Payment Services Directive, the Financial Conduct Authority's call for input on open finance, and the HM Treasury's payments landscape review.

We've pulled together an initial list of top journals and conferences that publish on aspects of digital TIPS here.

Which digital TIPS journals and conferences are considered at the top of your list? Send us your views to help make a comprehensive list of digital TIPS journals and conferences we could all use.

If you know of a seminal paper that makes an excellent introduction to your specific field of research, we'd love to hear about it as well!

After a workshop on writing successful grant applications, we've added the resources with top tips from our presenters.

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

This time, the spotlight is on SPRITE+ Member Judith Aldridge – Professor and Head of Criminology at the University of Manchester!

We have published the first ECR research story as part of our Rising Stars series.

Learn more about Emma Boakes' research investigating security convergence within organisations. Emma is a final year PhD Student (CREST funded) at the University of Bournemouth.

Nobuko Yoshida shared with us some news from Imperial College London Department of Computing (DoC):
> DoC researchers receive £1.3M grant on digital security

> Seven papers by members of the Department of Computing have been accepted at the 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2020

> Five papers by members of the Department of Computing accepted at Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2020


Jonathan Foster has shared with us his recent article on relational autonomy and risk mitigation during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Congratulations to PhD student Alicia Cork, and her co-authors Everson R, Levine M, Koschate M., for publishing their paper on Using Computational Techniques to Study Social Influence Online! This is Alicia's first published paper!


Congratulations to Florian Mathis, and his co-authors John H. Williamson, Kami Vaniea, and Mohamed Khamis whose paper on Fast and Secure Authentication in Virtual Reality using Coordinated 3D Manipulation and Pointing was accepted to ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI)! Planned Presentation Venue: CHI 2021, May 8-13 2021, Yokohama, Japan (https://chi2021.acm.org/).
You can follow Florian on Twitter to find out when the paper is available online.


Jason Nurse has shared with us the following news:
> New paper: Richard Knight & Jason R.C. Nurse, (2020). A framework for effective corporate communication after cyber security incidents. Computers & Security Journal, 99. Elsevier.

> Infosecurity Magazine Interview with Jason R.C. Nurse about new research on corporate communications after a data breach.

> News story about our research paper mentioned above: Wondering how to tell the world you've been hacked? Here's a handy guide from infosec academics.

> New paper: Anjuli R.K. Shere, Jason R.C. Nurse and Ivan Flechais, (2020) Security should be there by default: Investigating how journalists perceive and respond to risks from the Internet of Things. In: 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE.


Gilad Rosner has shared with us the following news:
> A new report co-authored by Gilad Rosner and Andrew McStay titled Emotional AI and Children: Ethics, Parents, Governance

> Privacy and Security in IoT webinar with Gilad Rosner and Ken Munro, moderated by Nick Norman on emotion analytics, IoT toys, cybersecurity, market failures, payments, and the problem of device patching.


Charles Weir shared the following with us:
> What You Want in a Security Expert


Florence Greatrix has shared the following with us:
> New RISCS Policy briefing: a framework to assess evidence quality in cyber security policy making