October 11, 2023
Dr. Florentin Rochet is a Computer Engineer and holds a PhD from the UCLouvain Crypto Group in Belgium. He is now a Research Associate at the […]
October 11, 2023
Kartik Upadhaya is a Research Fellow on the MANIPU project. His contribution investigates the moral problem of hypocrisy on social media platforms. Kartik works on moral […]
October 11, 2023
Francesca Farmer is a research associate on the LAWREG project. She recently completed her ESRC funded PhD ‘Cybercrime vs hacktivism: do we need a differentiated regulatory […]
October 11, 2023
Dr Othman Esoul studied his PhD (2014-2018) at the University of Leicester researching the use of Data Mining techniques to reverse engineer undocumented network protocols. Before […]
October 11, 2023
Alicia is an interdisciplinary Research Associate at the University of Bath and is also a visiting researcher at the Alan Turing Institute in London. She has […]
October 11, 2023
Hao Tsung Yang (Rey) is a Research Associate in Informatics at University of Edinburgh. starting from September 2021. Rey received his PhD degree at Computer Science, […]
October 11, 2023
There are a number of ‘directories’ or ‘rankings’ of governmental approaches to civil society privacy, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression online. While these can be useful […]
October 11, 2023
Sequential data model useful information about individuals, such as their visited locations, purchased products, or genomic information. Thus, sequential data are often collected from individuals and […]
October 11, 2023
This project will investigate the role of alternative online subcultures in the promotion of violence, through a data-driven comparative analysis of content across several (Chan) platforms. […]
October 11, 2023
Current research efforts on online harms (abuse, hate, dis/misinformation, cyberbullying, revenge pornography, etc.) have focused on examining single platforms (e.g., Twitter or Facebook) and/or isolating known […]
October 11, 2023
With the widespread use of resource-constrained devices such as RFID sensors, IoT, etc. the area of lightweight cryptography has become increasingly important. For evidence we can […]
October 11, 2023
The aim of this project is to create the building blocks for AI-based systems to be able to learn and reason about the privacy norms users […]
October 11, 2023
While violent crime and theft has been decreasing since the mid-90’s, fraud has now become the most common type of crime in the UK at 3.7 […]
October 11, 2023
Personality information can be used as part of adversarial manipulation of an individual, making them more vulnerable to attacks on their reasoning process – whether the […]
October 11, 2023
Several strategies are routinely used by social media companies, governments, and online communities to mitigate online harms. These include setting community standards, removing content that violates […]
October 11, 2023
The aim will be to investigate how effectively and efficiently anonymous communication networks (ACN) can act as “add-ons” between applications that do not have privacy built-in […]
October 11, 2023
A philosophical analysis of online manipulation on social media platforms focusing on the disruption of democratic processes. One of the most interesting phenomena in current international […]
October 11, 2023
This empirical project aims to analyse the roles of PETs, from both legal and regulatory perspectives, in protecting fundamental rights and freedoms, such as data protection […]
October 11, 2023
The act of engaging with digital services and devices is often considered a sub-component of online harm. Specifically, a considerable body of work has observed associations […]
October 11, 2023
A key challenge for the mitigation of online harms is the need to identify the ways in which regulators, practitioners and researchers can have joint understandings […]
October 11, 2023
Our aim is to inform users of the value of their data. We envision a system where instead of simply asking for permission from a user […]
October 11, 2023
Drummond Heckels is currently working as a Research Assistant at Northumbria University, having helped in the development of online systems for CNTW NHS foundation trust. Drummond […]
October 11, 2023
Honor Townshend, MSc, Ph.D. (candidate) – Researcher – Ph.D. Candidate and Visiting Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hertfordshire with an expertise on qualitative research […]
October 11, 2023
Mariya Prilutskaya, Ph.D. – Researcher – Mariya is a research assistant at Semey Medical University (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), and graduated from Astana Medical University in 2008. She […]
October 11, 2023
Valeria Catalani, MSc, Ph.D. (candidate) – Researcher – Ph.D candidate working on the analyses and the assessment Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) within the Psychopharmacology, Drug Misuse […]
October 11, 2023
The Protecting Girls from Online Harm: an inner-city exploration (PGOH) project aims to address the challenge of protecting young people (under 18) from online harms (including, […]
October 11, 2023
Cryptocurrency has evolved from a niche application developed by activists to a wide-scale form of payment. This trend is likely to accelerate because of banks’ interests, […]
October 11, 2023
The Metaverse (MV) has many positive features for children and young people’s cognitive, social and emotional development (Chang et al, 2020; Pallavicini & Pepe, 2020), but […]
October 11, 2023
Sextortion is a form of blackmail in which images of the victim nude or engaged in sexual acts are used as leverage by the offender. Typically, […]
October 11, 2023
The main goal of MetaSafeChild is to make Social Virtual Reality safer for children. The project aims to a) assess the potential harms faced by children […]