September 15, 2025
September 9, 2025
The University of Bristol will lead the way in supporting how data can make streets safer. REPHRAIN has received funding from the UKRI’s Concentrations of Crime […]
June 10, 2024
REPHRAIN Research Centre have commissioned the below video to celebrate the first ever REPHRAIN Festival of Privacy, run in partnership with the Jean Golding Institute at […]
February 17, 2024
REPHRAIN is pleased to announce two fantastic events for March 2024! 25 March – REPHRAIN Showcase The REPHRAIN Showcase will be an in-person event, taking place […]
January 18, 2024
We are very pleased to announce, following a competitive process, the four projects have been awarded grants from the fourth REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call. An overview […]
December 13, 2023
The concept of the metaverse has gained significant attention in recent years, promising digital worlds where users can interact, learn, create, and explore. As underlying technologies like generative AI, haptic suits and eye-tracking evolve, it becomes crucial to examine the impact of the metaverse on children’s experiences and address the concerns surrounding their online safety.
November 29, 2023
REPHRAIN are pleased to announce the first Impact Booster Award project, awarded to Ignacio Castro to facilitate work on building a fedi-observatory! This fedi-observatory will be a pump priming project […]
November 24, 2023
As a continuation of REPHRAIN’s research into privacy and end-to-end encryption (E2EE), Claudia Peersman participated in the EDPS Seminar on the CSAM Proposal: “The Point of No […]
September 5, 2023
As part of REPHRAIN’s commitment to inform responsible policy and legislation, Professor Awais Rashid, the Director of REPHRAIN, spoke to BBC’s Newsnight on Tuesday’s programme to discuss the privacy harms of the provision to scan end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messages in the Online Safety Bill.
August 21, 2023
The Commons CMS Committee has published a report on Connected Tech, which heavily cites the expert input of REPHRAIN researchers, covering the harms and benefits of connected tech, with particular attention to the debate around physical labelling of devices.
July 5, 2023
REPHRAIN have issued a press statement, amplifying an open letter from the broader community, calling on the UK Parliament to consider independent scientific evaluation before voting through the Online Safety Bill, specifically regarding concerns around privacy and End-to-End Encryption (E2EE).
March 16, 2023
REPHRAIN is delighted to announce we are accepting expressions of interest for our practitioner-in-residence programme and applications for our researcher-in-residence programme!
February 21, 2023
The REPHRAIN research centre are pleased to announce to release of “Towards a Framework for Evaluation CSAM Prevention and Detection Tools in the Context of End-to-end encryption Environments: a Case Study”.
December 21, 2022
The Safety Tech Challenge Fund evaluation report is under production by the REPHRAIN team but is currently delayed due to unforeseen personal and health reasons impacting the key REPHRAIN personnel involved. An updated schedule for delivery and publication will be released once confirmed.
November 21, 2022
We are pleased to announce that REPHRAIN is hosting a Showcase in January 2023!
We have secured Goodenough College in London as the venue for both days, with the Showcase to take place on 19 January, followed by a sandpit and All Hands Meeting on 20 January.
November 14, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Beate Grawemeyer has joined REPHRAIN as an Academic Fellow via our Researcher-in-Residence Programme!
November 2, 2022
Andrés Domínguez, one of our Core Researchers, has written a blog on the possible implications of the mass adoption of a metaverse – this includes a short story exploring and narrativising this critical debate.
October 17, 2022
We are delighted to announce the launch of the third REPHRAIN Strategic Funding Call.
October 14, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Hen Wilkinson has joined REPHRAIN as an Academic Fellow via our Researcher-in-Residence Programme!
October 10, 2022
The REPHRAIN Map is a living resource of knowledge around the areas of privacy, harms and risks online. The Map provides a shared understanding of this landscape, establishing a baseline of current state-of-the-art.
September 14, 2022
From Utility to Capability: A New Paradigm to Conceptualise and Develop Inclusive PETs. Prepared by Partha Das Chowdhury, Andrés Domínguez Hernández, Kopo Marvin Ramokapane & Awais Rashid.
August 11, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Tom van Neunen has joined REPHRAIN as an Academic Fellow via our Researcher-in-Residence Programme!
July 14, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Nadin Kokciyan of the CONTEXT project, working in collaboration with Pinar Yolum, has successfully submitted a publication to IJCAI-ECAI 2022, the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
June 10, 2022
May 30, 2022
We are very pleased to announce the projects that have successfully been awarded grants from the second REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call.
May 10, 2022
We are pleased to announce the launch of our Impact Booster Award programme!
This programme offers funding opportunities to current REPHRAIN projects to support the development of the external impact of your research with partner organisations.
May 3, 2022
We are pleased to announce that the LAWREG project, involving Asma Vranaki and Francesca Farmer, successfully submitted an abstract to BILETA.
March 10, 2022
This evaluation criteria document describes the scoping stage of REPHRAIN’s independent evaluation of Proof-of-Concept tools for preventing and detecting child sexual abuse media (CSAM) within end-to-end encryption (E2EE) environments that are currently being developed within five different projects funded by the Safety Tech Challenge Fund.
February 7, 2022
January 3, 2022
Papers exploring Private Set Integration protocols and consumer emotions and AI published recently by the REPHRAIN team