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 […]
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 […]
July 12, 2023
Exploring online extremism and its effects offline by looking at recruitment tools, a survey of intervention tools to combat radicalization, and the impact on free speech […]
July 12, 2023
This project will provide transparency tools for AI-based systems to explain how they manage users’ data and co-create interfaces that allow users to influence it. The […]
July 12, 2023
Exploring users experiences and concepts of privacy and online harms with respect to VR avatars. The ways in which social behaviour and self-presentation is experienced online […]
July 12, 2023
Understanding the role of contexts in managing privacy online through AI-agents. In online social systems, users are allowed to create and share content about themselves and […]
July 12, 2023
A decade of unprecedented growth in the field of personal data collection and analysis, as well as the increased ‘datification’ of ordinary life, has lead to […]
July 12, 2023
A multimodal machine learning based study of medical misinformation on social networks. Medical misinformation, popular science and alternative medicine thrives online in social networks where communities […]
July 11, 2023
A dedicated speculative space for citizens and publics to liaise with researchers, technologists and policy makers, to explore new technologies and data services, informing policy/practice guidelines […]
July 11, 2023
This project will investigate the use of formal methods in providing high-assurance, high-performance privacy-preserving data analytics solutions, and in ensuring their secure use. In particular, we […]
July 11, 2023
This project will analyse the current (and future potential) abuse of commercially available PETs for criminal purposes, using specific online harms as primary case examples, and […]
June 5, 2023
This project aims to investigate consumer perspectives on the use and sharing of PETs-related data by various types of ‘legitimate’ organisations. In particular, it will explore […]