Funding Opportunities
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ESRC: Secondary Data Analysis Initiative, closing date: open call. Read more here.
EPSRC: discipline-hopping in ICT, closing date: open call, total fund: £1.5M. Read more here.
ESRC: New investigator grant, closing date: open call. Read more here.
Internet Society Foundation: Research Grant Programme, closing date: open call, max. award: $200K. Read more here.
Innovate UK: Mindset extended reality (XR) for digital mental health: strand one, closing date: 12 October 2022 11.00 UK Time. Read more here.
Innovate UK: Mindset extended reality (XR) for digital mental health: strand two, closing date: 12 October 2022 11.00 UK Time. Read more here.
Innovate UK: Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022: Civil Security for Society - Cluster 3, closing date: 23 November 2022. Read more here.
EPSRC: Establish a future communications systems early-stage federated hub, closing date: 29 November 2022 16.00 BST. Read more here. |
Upcoming Events
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SASIG: Organising threat intelligence and planning incident response, 9.30-15.00 BST (in person), 10.00-14.00 (Zoom), 27 October 2022, hybrid. Register here.
University of Manchester Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Would you trust a cybercriminal?, 13.00-14.00 BST, 28 October 2022, online. Register here.
University of Manchester Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: The life-course and offending trajectories of cybercrime offenders, 13.00-14.00 BST, 28 October 2022, online. Register here.
Information Comissioner's Office: Biometric technologies and data protection, various dates, online. Register here. |
Job and PhD Opportunities
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Lecturer in Digital Forensics, Birmingham City University. Closing date: 30 September 2022. Read more here.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Networks and Cybersecurity X3, Birmingham City University. Closing date: 30 September 2022. Read more here.
Research Fellow in Machine Learning, The University of Manchester. Closing date: 30 September 2022. Read more here.
Associate Professor in Cyber Security, De Montfort University. Closing date: 2 October 2022. Read more here.
Senior Lecturer in Computer Networks, Birmingham City University. Closing date: 2 October 2022. Read more here.
Cyber Security Specialist, University of Hertfordshire. Closing date: 2 October 2022. Read more here.
Lecturer in Cyber Security, University of Bristol. Closing date: 6 October 2022. Read more here.
Senior Research Analyst, Trilateral Research. Closing date: Rolling application. Read more here.
Research Analyst, Trilateral Research. Closing date: Rolling application. Read more here.
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), Imperial College London. Closing date: N/A. Read more here.
PhD Studentship: Towards Trustworthy AI for Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems, Newcastle University. Closing date: 15 October 2022. Read more .
PhD Opportunity: When Federated Learning meets Mobile & IoT Healthcare: Multi-Objective Optimization Framework and Multi-modal System, Coventry University. Closing date: 20 October 2022. Read more here.
PhD Studentship in Computer Science (Conservative Bayesian Assessment of Classifiers used for Malicious Network Activity Detection), City, University of London. Closing date: 21 November 2022. Read more here.
PhD Studentship in Computer Science (Next Generation Blockchain Systems),
City, University of London. Closing date: 21 November 2022. Read more here. |
| REPHRAIN - Call to join our College of Peer Reviewers |
REPHRAIN are looking for interdisciplinary reviewers to provide quality reviews for all proposals submitted to our Funding Calls and Researcher-in-Residence programmes.
Applications are welcomed from:
• Colleagues with experience of large research proposals from an interdisciplinary perspective
• Colleagues from partner organisations who want to work with higher education providers
• Early career staff looking for personal or professional development
The deadline for applications is October 7, 2022.
Further details, including how to apply, can be found here.
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| Anima People: Cybersecurity Study with The European Agency of Cybersecurity |
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM), which is run by the European Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) each October to promote cybersecurity among EU citizens and organisations. This year ENISA is partnering with Anima People, who are paving the way in behavioural science related to security, in a critical project to evaluate cybersecurity awareness campaigns in behaviour change among employees. This will enable organisations worldwide to better design successful campaigns in the future, dramatically increasing their impact over time in driving long-term behaviour conducive to a cyber-secure world. Please participate by completing this survey. |
| SASIG Cybersecurity Skills Festival |
SASIG have announced that they are running the fourth edition of the Cybersecurity Skills Festival next month, throughout the day, 9am to 5pm on Tuesday 18 October.
The virtual festival contains a live all-day careers fair where candidates can speak directly to over 45 of the top UK IT security employers. They include Microsoft, BT, Barclays, CGI, Cabinet Office, and many others who are looking to hire the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
There's also an all-day conference where they will discuss the opportunities in cybersecurity, how to land those roles, career development, and everyday life in the industry. Find out more and sign up here.
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Cyber Security Photography Competition 2022: Living, Learning and Connecting in Cyberspace
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Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) at the University of Kent is running a Cyber Security Photo Competition and they welcome the general public (UK residents only) to participate.
Submitted photographs will be judged for up to 26 prizes in 3 categories (Kent staff, Kent students, and non-Kent participants who are living in the UK), including 6 prizes each worth a £100 Amazon voucher, and 20 runner-up prizes each worth a £20 Amazon voucher.
Deadline (extended): 31 October 2022. Read more and enter here.
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| RITICS Showcase 2022 |
The Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-Connected Cyber-Physical Systems (RITICS) will be hosting the first showcase for two years, on Thursday 27 October 2022. The showcase will feature RITICS funded projects, with speakers from the University of Glasgow and Queen's University Belfast, amongst others. There will be opportunities for Q&A throughout the day and the event will conclude with a panel discussion. Register here. |
| Launch of the Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities Network Plus (RBOC N+) |
The Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities Network Plus (RBOC N+) is designed to create new knowledge, new capabilities and new opportunities for collaboration that could help the UK prepare for resilience related challenges in the coming decades.
If you would like to join the network and receive updates, the newsletter, and access to events, please click here.
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| SPRITE+ Kick-Off Meeting for Community of Interest: TIPSS in the Metaverse |
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Join us on 4 October to discuss the TIPSS issues raised by the development of the ‘Metaverse’, including Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality applications.
In this kick-off meeting for our new Community of Interest on TIPSS in the Metaverse, you will have the opportunity to hear short talks from researchers and industry partners, network with others working in (or interested in working in) this area, find out about what is already going on, and influence plans for future CoI activities.
Confirmed speakers are: Emma Barrett (Director, SPRITE+ and University of Manchester), Victoria Baines (Gresham College and Bournemouth University), Julie Dawson (Yoti, and part of the World Economic Forum Metaverse Initiative), Mike Omoniyi (The Common Sense Network), Mohamed Khamis (University of Glasgow).
Register here now.
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| Call for participants: Third Annual SPRITE+ Sandpit |
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Applications are invited from SPRITE+ Members and Expert Fellows to join our online Sandpit on Future Digital Identity in January 2023. Up to £160k of SPRITE+ funding will be made available to fund interdisciplinary projects arising from this sandpit.
This topic of this year’s sandpit is Digital identity: Created, Remembered, Forgotten - the future of digital identity, defined broadly. We welcome applications from researchers across STEM, Arts and Humanities, and Social and Behavioural Sciences, including from those who have not previously worked on digital identity as well as those with an established track record in TIPS topics. We warmly welcome applications from industry, NGOs, government, and the police. Non-academic participants will play a central role in the development of proposals and in the successful projects.
Click here for more information, including access to our Sandpit FAQs page, call document and application form.
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| SPRITE+ Communicating Cybersecurity series Community of Interest |
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Following our kick off meeting for the Communicating Cybersecurity COI earlier this year, we are now putting together a programme of events and activities. Keep an eye out for future updates in the upcoming months or get in touch if you’d like to be involved in organising these.
To find out more about our last Communicating Cybersecurity event, click here.
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| News and Publications from the SPRITE+ Community |
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Every month we ask SPRITE+ members to share their news with the community. All previous publications from members are available on SPRITEHub.
A paper derived from the SPRITE+ funded project, 'TIPS in blended home - work environments: A socio-technical perspective'. was accepted in the journal of Workplace Learning. The paper title is "Trust Disruption and Preservation in the Covid-19 Work-from-Home Context" by Niki Panteli, Emily Collins, Jason Nurse and Nikki Williams.
'The digital harms of smart home devices: A systematic literature review' has just been published. The authors are a team that initially came together at the 2020 SPRITE+ Sandpit: SPRITE+ Expert Fellows and colleagues David Buil-Gil, Steven Kemp, Stefanie Kuenzel, Lynne Coventry, Sameh Zakhary, Daniel Tilley and James Nicholson.
SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Karen Renaud recently had an article published in The Wall Street Journal, titled 'The Key to Making Cybersecurity More Accessible to Everyone'.
SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Xiaochun Cheng has published papers titled 'Cyber-Threat Detection System Using a Hybrid Approach of Transfer Learning and Multi-Model Image Representation'; 'A Deep Convolutional Neural Network Stacked Ensemble for Malware Threat Classification in Internet of Things'; and 'Fine-Grained Data Sharing With Enhanced Privacy Protection and Dynamic Users Group Service for the IoV'.
SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Siamak Shahandashti has published a paper titled 'Online Security Attack Experience and Worries of Young Adults in the United Kingdom'.
SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Mohammad Shojafar and colleague Rahim Tafazolli have published a paper titled: 'Can Open and AI-enabled 6G RAN Be Secured?'. They have also published a conference paper titled: 'Optimizing Virtual Network Function Splitting in Open-RAN Environments'. The paper is to appear in IEEE 47th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2022. Mohammad Shojafar has also been elevated as an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (JCR-IF:9.5).
SPRITE+ member Maria Bada has published a new RISCS report on responding to ransomware, including ‘best practice’ guidelines for industry for defending against ransomware attacks. Read here.
SPRITE+ member Sean Brophy has published an article titled 'Getting in, getting on, going further: Exploring the role of employers in the degree apprentice to graduate transition'.
SPRITE+ member Iman Naja has published a paper titled 'Using Knowledge Graphs to Unlock Practical Collection, Integration, and Audit of AI Accountability Information'.
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