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UKRI: ISCF digital security by design - software ecosystem development. Total fund: £8M. Deadline: 08 December 2021. Read more here.
EPSRC: Engage the public with impacts of digital economy research 2021. Max. award: £10K. Deadline: 21 December 2021. Read more here.
ESRC Discribe Hub+: Commissioning call is for substantive research projects. Total fund: £800K. Deadline: 11 January 2022. Read more here.
EPSRC: Business and academia prosperity partnership: fifth round. Total fund: £38M. Deadline: 11 January 2022. Read more here.
EPSRC: High-risk speculative engineering and ICT research: New Horizons. Max. award: £250K. Deadline: 25 January 2022. Read more here.
UKRI: Develop basic technologies in sensing and imaging. Total fund: £2.5M. Deadline: 03 March 2022. Read more here.
Horizon Europe: World Leading Data and Computing Technologies. Max. award: £13M. Deadline: 05 April 2022. Read more here.
Horizon Europe: Civil Security for Society. Max. award: £1.6M. Deadline: open call. Read more here.
EPSRC: Pre-announcement: build a network to enable resilient solutions for future UK systems. Max. award: £2.25M. Deadline: 01 February 2022. Read more here.
ESRC: Pre-announcement: explore people’s relationships with digital technologies. Max. award: £4M. Deadline: TBC. Read more here.
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| Career and PhD opportunities |
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Research Analyst – Ethics & Data Protection, Trilateral Research. Closing date: open ended. Read more here.
PhD Studentships in Computer Security and Privacy (6 positions), Liverpool John Moores University. If you're interested in doing a PhD in the areas of computer security, cyber security, privacy, or any related field, please contact Dr Max Hashem Eiza M.HashemEiza@ljmu.ac.uk. Closing date: 30 November 2021.
Professor in AI and Law (Education and Research), University of Exeter. Closing date: 01 December 2021. Read more here.
Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology, University of Exeter. Closing date: 05 December 2021. Read more here.
Research Assistant/Associate in Machine Learning, University of Cambridge. Closing date: 23 December 2021. Read more here.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer or Reader in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Bath. Closing date: 05 January 2022. Read more here.
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| Upcoming events |
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'PETRAS Securing the Future Event', 25 November, 10.30-15.00, online. Read more here.
'What on Earth is the internet?', 26 November, various times, Newcastle. Read more here.
'eCRIME 2021: Symposium on Electronic Crime Research', 01-03 December, online. Read more here.
'DECaDE Winter Showcase Event', 02 December, 13.00-17.00, online. Read more here.
'UK Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE) 4th Annual Conference', 04 December, 10.00-16.00, online. Read more here.
'National Cyber Deception Symposium 2021', 07 December, 09.00-17.00, online. Read more here.
'MaaS: MAnaging Cybersecurity Risks across Consumers, Organisations & Sectors', 07 December, 09.30-13.15, online. Read more here.
'RISCS SDP Community Workshop: Secure Development Practice Education', 08 December, 14.00-17.00, online. Read more here.
'CYBERUK 2022', 10-11 May 2022, Newport, Wales. Read more here.
'Economics of Financial Technology Conference', 11-13 May 2022, Edinburgh. Read more here.
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| REPHRAIN Map: Community Consultation |
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The draft version of the REPHRAIN Map is open for review and community consultation for a 4 week period until Tuesday 14 December 2021. Read more here.
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| Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cybersecurity (RISCS) Survey: Improving resilience to ransomware |
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As part of her RISCS Fellowship on Cybercrime, Dr Maria Bada (QMUL) is investigating organisational factors and decision making processes which aim to prevent, detect and/or mitigate ransomware attacks. Deadline to complete the survey is 20 November 2021. Read more here.
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| 2022 Finals of the UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge |
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The Cyber 9/12 UK 2022 Strategy Challenge will be back in London for the 5th year and once again back in person at the magnificent BT Tower for the Finals event in February 2022. The Challenge is the annual cyber strategy competition for UK university students! The competition is an ideal experience in decision making during the time of a cyber crisis. You'll meet cyber security experts and representatives from across government and industry. Networking opportunities are unsurpassed for future career opportunities. Read more here and here.
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| Digital Economy Dispatches Book |
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DIGIT Lab Director Alan Brown, Professor of Digital Economy at the University of Exeter Business School, has released a collection of articles in a new book called “Digital Economy Dispatches: Critical reflections on how to succeed with digital transformation in turbulent times”. Read more here.
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| Do you know people who develop software for medical or health IoT devices? |
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The Hipster Project is designed to help professional software developers in Health IoT to address the security, privacy, and safeguarding needs of their systems in the most cost-effective way. We are keen to work with software development teams to develop protective IoT practices. Please email developersurvey@lancaster.ac.uk.
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| Call for papers for the Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy conference (CADE 2022) |
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The CADE 2022 theme is Resilience, Sustainability, Responsibility, and Identity and takes place on 13-15 June 2022. The deadline for submissions is 10 January 2022. Read more here.
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| Queen's University Belfast LINAS Doctoral Training Programme |
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Applications are open for the LINAS Doctoral Training Programme (DTP), which 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. Read more here.
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| SPRITE+ Top Tips Series: Being an effective PI |
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The SPRITE+ Top Tips series aims to provide training and development opportunities for early career researchers.
We are pleased to announce that the next session in this series will be delivered by Professor Bill Lee (Bangor University) on 30 November 10.00-11.00.
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| Registration now open: SPRITE+ Expert Fellows' Meeting |
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Registration is now open for the Expert Fellows' meeting at the spectacular Titanic Centre, Belfast on 11/12 April 2022.
We have a great couple of days planned including dinner and drinks, and lots of networking time. During our meeting we'll be working together to scope the future of digital Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security (TIPS). Stakeholders - including industry reps, government, and UKRI - will be closely involved and our recommendations will inform future funding and policy decisions.
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| SPRITE+ hosts the Discribe Hub+ team to discuss their latest funding call. |
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We were pleased to welcome Professor Adam Joinson (University of Bath) to introduce the Discribe Hub+, their work and latest funding call. We were joined by 53 individual attendees from 43 different organisations including both academic researchers and stakeholder representatives.
The Discribe Hub+ commissioning call is for substantive research projects around our four key topic areas:
- Economics and Decision Making in Security
- Software Developers and DSbD
- Regulation, Standards and Innovation
- Qualitatively analysing barriers in adopting early DSbD technologies
It is intended that the total amount available for this Call will be up to £800,000 at 100 percent full Economic Cost (fEC), of which 80 per cent fEC (i.e., up to £640,000) will be made available to successful applicants.
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| Outputs from the SPRITE+/PETRAS Early Career Researcher workshop now available |
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We were pleased to work with the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity to host a workshop on hints and tips for successful stakeholder engagement.
We covered key topics such as what academic researchers should emphasise and how research should be packaged when contacting or pitching to non-academic partners. We hosted an impressive line up of presenters representing a diverse set of industries and sectors, followed by a Q&A panel discussion in which our speakers shared their advice.
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| SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Spotlight – Karen Renaud |
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The spotlight today is on Karen Renaud – Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Strathclyde and SPRITE+ Expert Fellow. Karen is also PI on the SPRITE+ funded 'Revealing Young Learners’ Mental Models of Online Sludge' project.
Find out more about Karen's work and career journey.
"There are challenges in doing [cybersecurity-related] evaluations with the two ends of the lifespan: children, and seniors. Yet working with these groups is extremely rewarding."
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| Rising Star: Charles Weir |
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Rising Stars is a blog series featuring SPRITE+ Early Career Researchers (ECRs).
Our Rising Star this month is Charles Weir, Software Security Researcher at Lancaster University. Charles is also PI on the SPRITE+ funded 'FiVu: Using Design Fiction to Identify Future Vulnerabilities in Bio-IOT' project.
Learn more about Charles' journey from consultant to programmer to academic and his research in software security.
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| More projects funded via the SPRITE+ Sandpit |
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In July 2021 we welcomed 35 participants from 25 different organisations to our online sandpit focussed on the theme of 'digital vulnerabilities'. Five teams secured funding for their four month projects which will explore aspects of digital vulnerability from technical, social, and socio-technical perspectives.
Congratulations to the 'Revealing Young Learners’ Mental Models of Online Sludge' project team, which is led by Dr Karen Renaud (University of Strathclyde), Dr Bryan Clift (University of Bath), Dr Ben Morrison (Northumbria University), Dr Kovila Coopamootoo (Newcastle University), Dr Cigdem Sengul (Brunel University), Dr Mark Springett (Middlesex University), Dr Jacqui Taylor (Bournemouth University) and Brain Higgins (Comparitech.com).
Congratulations to the 'Footprints to emissions: Exploring near-future digital vulnerabilities with creative methodologies' project team, which is led by Dr Davis Ellis (University of Bath), Dr Iain Reid (University of Portsmouth), Dr Philip Wu (Royal Holloway University of London) and Dr Asad Ali (Ofcom).
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| SPRITE+ meeting: the language of cybersecurity |
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SPRITE+ will host a 90 minute online meeting on 27 January (14.00-15.30) to discuss the language around cyber security – how can we have better conversations about what it means to be safe and secure around digital technologies. Confirmed speakers include Dr Emma Moreton (University of Liverpool) and Dr Ola Michalec (University of Bristol).
There is a growing number of researchers investigating security narratives, portrayals of hackers, militarisation of security language etc. but as far as we know, these researchers are dispersed. The aim of this meeting is bring researchers and stakeholders together to facilitate productive discussions for the language security community.
Please email admin@spritehub.org to express your interest in attending this meeting.
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| Final day to register: SPRITE+ meet-up with LORCA |
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There are only two days left to register for our in-person cybersecurity community event with the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA) on Friday 26 November (13.30-17.00).
Join us to discuss emerging research challenges and opportunities, and strengthen networks amongst our academics, stakeholders, and industrial partners. The meeting will include a key note presentation from Nvidia and elevator pitches from academics and the cyber security start-up community plus plenty of time for networking.
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The newsletter is published every last Wednesday of the month. Deadline to include your news piece is every second-last Friday of the month.
Learn more about benefits of SPRITE+ membership.
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