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REPHRAIN: Second Strategic Funding Call, closing date: 28 January 2022, total fund: £0.5M. Read more here.
STFC: Develop technology ideas for commercial application, closing date: 24 February 2022 , max. award: £450K. Read more here.
EPSRC NetworkPlus in Digitalised Surface Manufacturing: Call for short Feasibility Studies, closing date: 28 February 2022 , max. award: £35K. Read more here.
ESRC: Digital Society Network Plus, closing date: 01 March 2022, max. award: £4M. Read more here.
Cyber security academic startup accelerator programme 2022-23: phase 1, closing date: 02 March 2022, total fund: £800K. Read more here.
UKRI: Molecules to landscapes: building interdisciplinary capabilities, closing date: 24 March 2022 , max. award: £200K. Read more here.
Rosetrees: Artificial Intelligence/ Machine learning and Medicine, closing date: 21 April 2022, max. award: £300K. Read more here.
Horizon Europe: Civil Security for Society, closing date: open call, total fund: £1.6B. Read more here.
Internet Society Foundation: Research Grant Programme, closing date: open call, max. award: $200K. Read more here.
Connected Everything: Call for Events, closing date: open call, max. award: £2.5K. Read more here.
EPSRC: discipline-hopping in ICT, closing date: open call, total fund: £1.5M. Read more here.
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| Upcoming events |
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RITICS: Anti-Patterns, 10.00-15.30, 28 January, online. Read more here.
SASIG: The Chief’s Brief with Simon Hepburn, CEO, The UK Cyber Security Council, 11.00-12.00, 09 February 2022, online. Read more here.
RegTech Forum – FCA Approach to Innovation & SupTech, 14.00-15.00, 10 February 2022, online. Read more here.
Financial Services SASIG Workshop, 09.00-14.00, 10 February 2022, online. Read more here.
SASIG Cybersecurity Skills Festival, 09.00-17.00, 22 February 2022, online. Read more here.
EPSRC Circular Economy community engagement workshops, 24-29 March 2022, online. Read more here.
Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security (BASS22), 19-21 July 2022, Lancaster, UK. Read more here.
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| Job and PhD opportunities |
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Research Analyst – Ethics & Data Protection, Trilateral Research. Closing date: open ended. Read more here.
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Geospatial Systems, Newcastle University and the University of Nottingham. Closing date: 30 January 2022. Read more here.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Derby. Closing date: 31 January 2022. Read more here.
Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Durham University. Closing date: 07 February 2022. Read more here.
Research Associate, Cyber Security Risk Analysis, The Alan Turing Institute. Closing date: 08 February 2022. Read more here.
Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey. Closing date: 22 February 2022. Read more here.
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| RISCS Prize Competition: Optimizing the use of UK Government survey data on cyber security |
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RISCS is holding a prize competition for PhD students and early career researchers to encourage cyber security research and analysis that makes use of UK government survey data. The closing date for submissions is 20th of February 2022. Read more here.
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| The right to privacy: digital data |
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This inquiry is currently accepting evidence. The committee wants to hear your views. You can submit evidence until Friday 28 January 2022. Read more here.
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| Consultation on the draft UKRI Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy |
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This consultation is open to everyone with an interest or involvement in research and innovation to share their thoughts, individually or as an organisation, on how we deliver transformative and lasting change. Read more here.
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| Call for papers |
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Andrew M’manga (Lecture in Cybersecurity at Bournemouth University) is inviting you to submit chapter proposals for a co-edited Reference book proposal for Princeton University Press. The book tentatively titled: Organizational Views on Cyber Risk: An International Perspective aims at illustrating how cyber risk is perceived and addressed in organisations across the globe. A driving theme is that addressing risk in practice rarely matches risk approaches on paper. Please submit your abstract (300 words max.) to the corresponding editor at b.christiansen2022@protonmail.com by 15 February 2022. Please contact Andrew (ammanga@bournemouth.ac.uk) or the corresponding editor with any questions.
New Challenges in Big Data Security and Privacy. Deadline: 15 March 2022
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| SPRITE+ Regional Meet-up in Glasgow |
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Join our regional meet-up in Glasgow on 3 March 2022 (10.30-16.30) as part of Cyber Scotland week.
This cybersecurity community-building event will be led by Prof Wendy Moncur (University of Strathclyde). The event will feature expert talks and panel discussions, plus networking opportunities. 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 current and future cybersecurity challenges. It will be relevant to non-academic members from regulators, government departments, businesses and third sector organisations, and to researchers from science, technology, engineering, humanities, arts and social science disciplines.
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| SPRITE+ Top Tips: Managing conflicting demands |
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The next session in the SPRITE+ top tips series (23 Feb, 10.00-11.00) will focus on hints and tips for managing conflicting demands. 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.
This session will be led by Mark Elliot, Professor of Data Science at The University of Manchester. Join us to hear Marks’s perspectives and advice on the best ways to manage your workload effectively with conflicting deadlines and priorities. There will be plenty of time for discussion and Q&A.
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| SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Spotlight: Julie Gore |
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The spotlight today is on Julie Gore – Chartered Psychologist, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Director of the Professional Doctorate in Evidence Based Management at Birkbeck, University of London.
Find out more about Julie's work and career journey.
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Rising Stars is a blog series featuring SPRITE+ Early Career Researchers (ECRs).
Our Rising Star this month is Iman Naja, Research Fellow in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen.
Learn more about Iman's work on the Realising Accountable Intelligent Systems (RAInS) project.
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Our Project Partner, IOTICS introduces us to digital twins: what they are, how they work, and the challenges they have for digital trust, identity, privacy, and security.
IOTICS highlights current research challenges and opportunities for researchers and others to collaborate.
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| SPRITE+ funded FiVu project uses agile project management techniques |
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The FiVu project: Using Design Fiction to Identify Future Vulnerabilities in Bio-IOT is led by Dr Charles Weir, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Lancaster University.
Charles Weir and Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin are using agile project management techniques on the FiVu project. In this blog entry, Charles explains how it works.
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| Goodbye and thank you to SERENE-RISC |
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We would like to thank our partners, the Smart Cybersecurity Network (SERENE-RISC) for their contributions to the SPRITE+ network.
After eight years of innovation in cybersecurity knowledge mobilization, the SERENE-RISC project reached the end of its funding cycle in December 2021. We have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with the SERENE-RISC team including representation on our Advisory Board, key note speakers at our events and contributions to our sandpits. We look forward to continuing our work together as the team kick start their new Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership (HC2P).
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| SPRITE+ welcomes a new team member |
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We are delighted to welcome Katy Taylor to the SPRITE+ team as our new Events, Projects and Communications Assistant.
Katy joins the team following the completion of her undergraduate degree in Film Studies and English Literature at the University of Manchester. Katy will be leading on SPRITE+ communications so please share your news with her at admin@spritehub.org.
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| SPRITE+ Co-Director announces partnership between Queen’s University Belfast and NVIDIA |
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Queen’s University Belfast and NVIDIA will invest £5.4 million in a joint Research and Development (R&D) project with the aim to accelerate artificial intelligence, machine learning and cyber security research in Northern Ireland.
Professor Sakir Sezer, SPRITE+ Co-Director and Principal Architect at NVIDIA said: “We plan to tap into the highly skilled researchers and PhDs at Queen’s University Belfast, as well as state-of-the art labs at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) and the Global Innovation Institute, to explore research challenges around AI-centric cloud and data centre security. This project is an important step in greater engagement between NVIDIA and the university, and we look forward to welcoming the new engineering staff joining us for it.”
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