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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.
STFC: Address a societal challenge relating to security or the environment. Total fund: £2M. Deadline: 25 January 2022. Read more here.
National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN): Second Strategic Funding Call. Total fund: £0.5M. Deadline: 28 January 2022. Read more here.
EPSRC: Build a network to enable resilient solutions for future UK systems. Max. award: £2.25M. Deadline: 01 February 2022. Read more here.
EPSRC: Digital manufacturing. Total fund: £7M. Deadline: 03 February 2022. Read more here.
ESRC: Digital Society Network Plus: exploring people’s relationships with digital technologies. Max. award: £4M. Deadline: 01 March 2022. Read more here.
UKRI: Develop basic technologies in sensing and imaging. Total fund: £2.5M. Deadline: 03 March 2022. Read more here.
EPSRC Connected Everything NetworkPlus: Call for events. Max award: £2.5K. Deadline: 28 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.
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| Upcoming events |
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'Machine learning and computer vision competition', 10 Dec-10 January 2022, online. Read more here.
'The human element of cybersecurity in the age of hybrid working', 20 December 2021, online. Read more here.
'How to talk to Industry' with PETRAS and Connected Everything, 19 January 2022, online. Read more here.
'The cybersecurity implications of social media' 26 January 2022, University of Surrey or online. Read more here.
'Financial Services SASIG Workshop', 10 February 2022, 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.
'1st International Workshop on Cybersecurity and Social Sciences (CySSS)', 30 May, Nagasaki, Japan. Read more here.
'Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE) 2022', 13-15 June 2022, Venice, Italy (Blended Format). Read more here. Call for submissions here (deadline: 10 January 2022).
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| Job and PhD opportunities |
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Research Associate in Machine Learning, University of Cambridge. Closing date: 23 December 2021. Read more here.
Tutor in Computer Science, Swansea University. Closing date: 03 January 2022. Read more here.
Head of Cyber Operations for FCDO, Government Digital Service. Closing date: 04 January 2022. Read more here.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (x4), Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield. Closing date: 04 January 2022. Read more here.
PhD Studentships in Digital Economy, University of Nottingham. Closing date: 04 January 2022. Read more here.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer or Reader in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Bath. Closing date: 05 January 2022. Read more here.
Lecturer in Criminology (Digital Criminology), University of Plymouth. Closing date: 05 January 2022. Read more here.
Research Associate in xAI, University of Edinburgh. Closing date: 05 January 2022. Read more here.
Research Associate in AI Law, University of York. Closing date: 07 January 2022. Read more here.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Game AI, Manchester Metropolitan University. Closing date: 10 January 2022. Read more here.
Research Fellow in Software for AI Hardware Testing Automation, University of Southampton. Closing date: 10 January 2022. Read more here.
Lecturer in Information Security (Social Foundations), RHUL. Closing date: 12 January 2022. Read more here.
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, University of Bath. Closing date: 16 January 2022. Read more here.
Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Durham University. Closing date: 07 February 2022. Read more here.
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| Connected Everything Early Career Researcher Placement Scheme |
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This call is to support PhD students and ECRs gain first-hand experience of this changing industrial context through direct Industry / Partner engagement, whether as a virtual or onsite placement. Awards will be made up to a maximum of £5,000 (funded at 80% fEC) with £30,000 available in the budget. Read more here.
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| ICO Sandbox is open to take on new participants |
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The Regulatory Sandbox is a service developed by the ICO, to support organisations who are creating products and services which utilise personal data in innovative and safe ways. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with our Sandbox team, to draw upon our wider ICO expertise and advice on mitigating risks and embedding ‘data protection by design’. Read more here.
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| Call for Student Participants for the UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge |
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The UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is designed to identify and foster the next generation of policy and strategy leaders for the cybersecurity challenges of the future. This is a great opportunity for undergraduate and taught postgraduate students interested in technology, political science and social science to develop practical skills in understanding and responding to a complex problem as well as practicing briefing to senior audiences. See more information and sign up here.
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| Three new sessions added to the SPRITE+ Top Tips series |
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Our Top Tips series aims to provide useful practical advice to equip early career researchers with the skills and knowledge to deliver high quality impactful research in their future careers.
Applying for academic jobs - 11.00-12.00, 19 January 2022, online, with Prof Emma Barrett.
Managing conflicting demands - 10.00-11.00, 23 February 2022, online, with Prof Mark Elliot.
Being an effective PI - 10.00-11.00, 21 March 2022, online, with Prof Bill Lee.
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| Digital Technologies, Power and Control Survey |
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The SPRITE+ funded Digital Technologies, Power and Control Challenge Working Group has developed a survey about the digital divide, the COVID-19 pandemic and issues of power and control in digital technology use. They will use the survey results to create a benchmark of challenges and opportunities in designing digital technologies.
This survey is for all SPRITE+ members and others who work with digital technology development and/or challenges. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
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| ‘Revealing Young Learners’ Mental Models’ project team publish white paper |
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In this paper, the team report on the literature related to understanding young learners’ mental models related to deceptive “dark patterns” used by malicious agents online: so-called sludge.
The project team secured funding during the most recent SPRITE+ sandpit, which focused on the topic of digital vulnerabilities. The team 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 Brian Higgins (Comparitech.com).
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| SPRITE+ Member Spotlight – Sotiris Moschoyiannis |
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The spotlight today is on Sotiris Moschoyiannis – Reader in Complex Systems at the University of Surrey, and a SPRITE+ member.
Find out more about Soteris' work and career journey.
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| Communicating cybersecurity: building a community of interest |
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On Thursday 27 January 2022 (2-3.30pm) SPRITE+ will be hosting an online community building event around communicating cybersecurity.
Our aim is to facilitate the building of potential collaborations and to explore opportunities for academics to partner with non-academic organisations to identify and explore the challenges of communicating cybersecurity. This event will feature short provocative talks and breakout discussions to identify key research challenges and future outputs.
This event will be relevant to researchers from STEM, humanities, arts and social science disciplines and non-academic members from regulators, government departments, businesses and third sector organisations.
Confirmed speakers include:
• Dr Emma Moreton (University of Liverpool) - 'Communicating cyber threats: problems, responses, recommendations'
• Professor Genevieve Liveley (University of Bristol) - 'A Morphology of the Cyber Security Tale'
• Dr Ola Michalec (University of Bristol) - 'Hoping for the best but expecting the worst: how can we talk about security of emerging technologies?'
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| SPRITE+ Christmas shutdown |
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After another busy year, the SPRITE+ team will be away from 17 December, returning on 4 January.
We wish all our members, expert fellows and project partners an enjoyable and relaxing break.
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We'd like to express our thanks to the SPRITE+ Research Associate, Dmitry Dereshev.
Dmitry made a huge contribution to the SPRITE+ programme and we are very grateful for all his efforts. We wish Dmitry the best of luck for the future.
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