February 16, 2026
Neighbourhood Signals investigates how hyperlocal digital discourse maps onto offline crime dynamics across UK communities. Using a large longitudinal dataset from the hyperlocal Nextdoor platform linked […]
February 16, 2026
This creative arts-research, pilot project responds to Strand 1: Understanding crime-related issues locally and potential for targeted prevention. We will run three workshops in a small […]
February 16, 2026
VR-CLiCS (Child Local Clinics for Safety in Virtual Environments) adapts REPHRAIN’s Privacy Clinics model to focus on the safety of young people (12–17) in social VR […]
February 6, 2026
Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is one of the most urgent challenges facing our communities today, and tackling it is central to the Government’s Safer […]
March 20, 2025
User reporting is an important platform tool to defend against online harms, including harassment. Yet a recent report from the Turing Institute based on a large-scale […]
March 20, 2025
DAARC will apply the ‘Design Against Crime’ approach to Augmented Reality (AR) devices, systems and platforms, to identify new ways of anticipating and preventing either (a) […]
March 20, 2025
SaferVR investigates the unique risks faced by adults with intellectual disabilities in social virtual reality environments, including issues like harassment and accidental data exposure. The project […]
March 20, 2025
In partnership with SARSAS, the Survivors Trust, and Survivors Voices, we will conduct research to understand the experiences of survivors of non-recent, online-facilitated child sexual abuse […]
March 20, 2025
This project addresses the global issue of online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), where research and safety provisions lag behind high-income […]
March 20, 2025
Generative AI has had a major impact on the academic landscape since the emergence of ChatGPT in November 2022. Yet much of the ethical discourse has […]
March 18, 2025
The vast popularity of social media led to an unparalleled rise of financial influencers, the so-called “finfluencers”, who exploit those platforms to disseminate financial-related content and […]
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 […]