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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]