October 11, 2023
The way that video games make money has changed. Beginning in the mid-2000s, a novel monetisation strategy began to emerge in which games were not treated […]
October 11, 2023
The development of a child sexual abuse conversation (CSAC) dataset, this 9-month project will lead to advances in our understanding of how perpetrators of child sex […]
October 11, 2023
The SELF-PROTECT project explores the problem of government threats to citizens’ digital privacy from the interdisciplinary perspectives of psychology and computer science. The objectives are to: […]
October 11, 2023
The overall vision of this project is to investigate the role and provision of synthetic dataset for developing, evaluating, and comparing techniques for protecting young people […]
October 11, 2023
Consumers use insurance to smooth finances following incidents including fires at home, car accidents, theft, travel disasters and more. In recent years, insurers have started to […]
October 11, 2023
DSNmod tackles the challenges of decentralised moderation. Traditional social networks such as Twitter or Facebook can concentrate large amounts of resources and data for content moderation, […]
October 11, 2023
The project proposed here brings a multidisciplinary approach to achieve true consent online through subtraction and work with unemployed people. The project will identify user needs […]
October 11, 2023
This 12-month interdisciplinary project will investigate current practices in relation to the drivers and unique obstacles that SMEs face, in making privacy-aware decisions. This work seeks […]
October 11, 2023
PORTAS focuses on the development of artificial intelligence techniques for the detection, investigation and potential disruption of organised crime group (OCG) activity on online platforms.
October 11, 2023
This project aims to investigate the harms posed by the recent and unprecedented availability of unlicensed Covid19 vaccines, fake test certificates and other related goods and […]
October 11, 2023
This project will consider the evaluation of the applicability of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 for intimate partner violence (IPV) to give a better understanding of […]
October 11, 2023
The project proposed here brings a socio-technical approach to Explainable AI, in order to help users develop appropriate trust and avoid online harm. The proposed project […]
October 11, 2023
This project will propose a novel phishing-advice tool, PhishEd, which accepts reports from users of potential phishing emails, uses AI to parse out contextual phishing features, […]
October 11, 2023
This 12-month interdisciplinary project will investigate the role of adaptive hate speech awareness mechanisms in reducing the production of hate speech across online social platforms.
October 11, 2023
PriXR intends to harden Extended Reality (XR) technology against violations of privacy and anonymity, crucially exploring XR not in terms of its benefits to society, but […]
October 11, 2023
This project will study the three-way dynamics between storage PETs, ransomware, and ransomware defences via a testbed approach. This is important because of the potential privacy-damaging […]
October 11, 2023
Gideon Ogunniye is a Research Associate on CONTEXT project at the Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute (AIAI), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. The project […]
October 11, 2023
Dan Saattrup Nielsen is a Research Associate in Machine Learning. He’s working on the CLARITI project with Dr. Ryan McConville, which aims to analyse and detect […]
September 26, 2023
The REPHRAIN National Research Centre was pleased to host participants for a half-day sandpit on transforming REPHRAIN research into actionable impacts for protecting citizens online. This sandpit took place on Friday 20th January 2023 at Goodenough College in London.
September 26, 2023
REPHRAIN hosted a successful signature Showcase on January 19th 2023 at Goodenough College. The open showcase involved presentations from our researchers, workshops and discussions involving our external partners.
September 26, 2023
On 30 June, Umang Bhatt, a PhD candidate in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge and one of the REPHRAIN members behind the SOXAI project, conducted an online masterclass exploring the challenges and frontiers in algorithmic transparency.
September 26, 2023
This masterclass will present an overview of recent work tackling self-imposed privacy issues as they arise in online conversations. Led by Anna Squicciarini and Sarah Rajtmajer of Penn State University.
September 26, 2023
REPHRAIN hosts their first in-person show and tell. Featuring REPHRAIN Projects, a demonstration of the REPHRAIN Testbed, an illustration of the current REPHRAIN Map, and keynote talks.
September 26, 2023
On 9 March, the team behind our CMA 1990 project conducted an online masterclass about their experience using legal databases to study tech-enabled harms.
September 26, 2023
On 3 March, REPHRAIN conducted an online masterclass on the topic of Law & Regulation and Online Harms. The masterclass was hosted by the members behind the REPHRAIN Policy and Regulation strand and the SURVEY project.
September 26, 2023
On 3 November, the REPHRAIN team hosted a Project Showcase of our research, where staff from our Inaugural Projects provided a status update on their innovative research and researchers from our first Strategic Funding Call were able to introduce themselves and their nascent projects to the community.
September 26, 2023
On 23 September, Emiliano De Cristofaro hosted a masterclass about his experience using data science to research fringe communities online.
September 26, 2023
On 2 September, REPHRAIN hosted a masterclass looking at the overarching challenges of dealing with online harms data.
September 25, 2023
To support the UKRI, the REPHRAIN centre ran an information event to bring together members of the academic and industry community. The focus of the event was to provide the opportunity for interested parties to engage with each other and synthesise ideas.
September 22, 2023
As a follow up to the scoping engagement during the launch event, a set of focused REPHRAIN scoping workshops will take place during February and March 2021 which […]