Rem Noormohamed joins the SPRITE+ Advisory Board

New Project Partners join SPRITE+

SPRITE+ hosts a second online sandpit

How do researchers understand "Trusted Research"? - Findings of a SPRITE+ Workshop

SPRITE+ hosts "Top Tips for ECRs: Use of small grants"

SPRITE+ Regional Meetups

SPRITE+ Member Spotlight – Neetesh Saxena

Call for Expert Fellows from Academia and Professional Practice

Call for Events and Activities

New Career and Funding Opportunities

News and Publications from the SPRITE+ Community

ESRC policy fellowships 2021

AHRC | Ethics in artificial intelligence research and development

6th workshops on research for insider threats

Call for Papers: Security and Privacy in 5G-enabled Industrial IoT: Current Progress and Future Challenge

OMDDAC project conference

Call for participants in THRIDI design workshop

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Apply to spend up to 18 months collaborating with a UK or devolved government host organisation. Depending on the fellowship, you can be either a researcher in the economic and social sciences or in the arts and humanities.

Closing date: 14 Sep 2021, 16:00 UK time.

Apply for funding to explore ways to include ethics in the research and development of artificial intelligence (AI). You will create new networks to carry out early research.

Closing date: 21 Sep 2021, 16:00 UK time.

6th Workshop on Research for Insider Threats (WRIT), in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Cyber Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (ICCS), will highlight ongoing research into Insider Threat related issues, as well as raise awareness and foster relationships between security researchers and practitioners from government, academia, and industry.

Submission of Full Papers: 1 Sep 2021.

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society welcomes high quality research papers from both academia and industry, with particular emphasis on novel ideas and techniques in 5G-enabled Industrial IoT.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 Dec 2021.

On Wednesday 13 October 14:00-16:00 BST the Observatory for Monitoring Data-Driven Approaches to Covid-19 (OMDDAC) is hosting a symposium on its research into data-driven approaches to the pandemic, featuring guest speakers and panel discussion on the legal, ethical, policy and operational challenges, as well as the impact of data-driven approaches on civil society, children and young people, and public perceptions of data use.

Expression of interest extended until 30 Aug 2021.

THRIDI project aims to foster collaborations on the topics of data-sharing policies in smart homes, user experience with managing IoT devices and more.

CREST Issue 11: Risk.

ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Volume 15, Issue 3, (May 2021).

Computers & Security, Volume 110 , November 2021.

International Journal of Information Security. Volume 20, Issue 5.

Network Security, Volume 2021, Issue 8.

Rem is an international lawyer and Partner at Field Fisher, with expertise in tech, communications, data privacy and cyber security. Rem serves as a member of various committees, including as a non-executive member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Wales; as expert member of the UN Global Geospatial Information Management Working Group; and as a special adviser to the World Bank on the application of block chain for food supply chain traceability.

We are delighted to welcome Rem to the SPRITE+ Advisory Board and look forward to working with him in the coming months.

We are pleased to welcome three new Project Partners to SPRITE+, the Age Check Certification Scheme, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Inogesis.

Project Partners support SPRITE+ by providing expert input into shaping our activities and setting our research directions, to ensure they are end-user relevant.

In July 2021 we welcomed 35 participants from 25 different different organisations to our online sandpit focussed on the theme of 'digital vulnerabilities'.

Over the course of five sessions spread over three weeks, the sandpit participants co-created innovative interdisciplinary projects to explore aspects of digital vulnerability from technical, social, and socio-technical perspectives.

The sandpit culminated in presentations to the Funding Panel, with five proposals awarded funding. More information on the funded projects will be published in due course.

SPRITE+ held a workshop in March 2021 to identify ways to improve researcher awareness of issues related to "Trusted Research". The workshop explored the implications of current guidance for 'coal face' PIs and their teams, examining the barriers to awareness and implementation, and suggesting ways to improve the situation.

The workshop featured context-setting short talks from Professor Sir Peter Gregson (VC of Cranfield University and Universities UK lead for Trusted Research), Professor Emma Barrett (Director SPRITE+), and Professor Anthony Finkelstein (Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security).

We hosted the first session in our ‘Top Tips’ series this month, which featured presentations by Dr Nathan Smith (University of Manchester) and Dr Karena Kyne (Lancaster University). See the link below for Nathan’s slides and more information on upcoming ECR training and events.

Subject to covid restrictions, SPRITE+ will be holding some regional meet-ups in the new academic year. If you are interested in hosting an informal meeting near you, either at your organisation or local venue, please get in touch for a chat about what it might involve (admin@spritehub.org).

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

The spotlight today is on Neetesh Saxena – Assistant Professor (Lecturer) with the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, and a SPRITE+ Member.

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.

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).

We regularly collate PhD studentships, academic positions, and other opportunities related to digital TIPS.

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

Congratulations to Charis Rice and colleagues who have recently published "A Communication Toolkit to Build Trust: Lessons from Northern Ireland’s Civil Society Peacebuilders".

Congratulations to Lynsay Shepherd and Paul Boyle who have recently presented "MailTrout: a machine learning browser extension for detecting phishing emails".

Congratulations to Charles Weir and colleagues who have recently published "Infiltrating security into development: exploring the world’s largest software security study".

Congratulations to David Buil Gil and colleagues who have recently published "Empty Streets, Busy Internet: A Time-Series Analysis of Cybercrime and Fraud Trends During COVID-19".

Congratulations to Mohammad Shojafar and colleagues who have recently published "TEL: Low-Latency Failover Traffic Engineering in Data Plane", "Joint QoS-aware and Cost-efficient Task Scheduling for Fog-cloud Resources in a Volunteer Computing System", "Link Latency Attack in Software-Defined Networks", and "A Two-layer Collaborative Vehicle-Edge Intrusion Detection System for Vehicular Communications".

Congratulations to Rachel Allsopp and colleagues whose response to call for evidence on the key themes that have emerged from the National Audit Office’s Covid-19 work have been cited in the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts - Initial lessons from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic report.

Congratulation to Marie Oldfield and Ella Haig who have recently published "Analytical modelling and UK Government policy".