REPHRAIN: Research centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Computer Science
Abstract
The REsearch centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial INfluence online (REPHRAIN) will bring together the UK's substantial academic, industry, policy and third sector capabilities to address the current tensions and imbalances between the substantial benefits to be gained by full participation in the digital economy and the potential for harm through loss of privacy, insecurity, disinformation and a myriad of other online harms.
Combining world-leading experts from the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Bath, King's and UCL, the REPHRAIN Centre will use an interdisciplinary approach - alongside principles of responsible innovation and creative engagement - to develop new insights that allow the socio-economic benefits of a digital economy to be maximised whilst minimising the online harms that emerge from this.
REPHRAIN's leadership team will drive these insights in technical, social, behavioural, policy and regulatory research on privacy, privacy enhancing technologies and online harms, through an initial scoping phase and 25 inaugural projects.
The work of REPHRAIN will be focused around three core missions and four engagement and impact objectives. Mission 1 emphasises the requirement to deliver privacy at scale whilst mitigating its misuse to inflict harms. This will focus on reconciling the tension between data privacy and lawful expectations of transparency by not only drawing heavily on advances in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), but also leveraging the full range of socio-technical approaches to rethink how we can best address potential trade-offs. Mission 2 emphasises the need to minimise harms whilst maximising the benefits from a sharing-driven digital economy, redressing citizens' rights in transactions in the data-driven economic model by transforming the narrative from privacy as confidentiality only to also include agency, control, transparency and ethical and social values. Finally, Mission 3 focuses on addressing the balance between individual agency and social good, developing a rigorous understanding of what privacy represents for different sectors and groups in society (including those hard to reach), the different online harms to which they may be exposed, and the cultural and societal nuances impacting effectiveness of harm-reduction approaches in practice.
These missions are supported by four engagement and impact objectives that represent core pillars of REPHRAIN's approach: (1) design and engagement; (2) adoption and adoptability; (3) responsible, inclusive and ethical innovation; and (4) policy and regulation. Combined, these objectives will deliver co-production, co-creation and impact at scale across academia, industry, policy and the third sector.
These activities will be complemented by a capability fund, which will ensure that REPHRAIN activities remain flexible and responsive to current issues, addressing emerging capability gaps, maximising impact and cultivating a public space for collaboration. REPHRAIN will be managed by a Strategic Board and supported by an External Advisory Group, the REPHRAIN Ethics Board, and will work with multiple external stakeholders across industry, public, and the third sector.
Outcomes from the centre will be synthesised into the REPHRAIN Toolbox - a one-stop resource for researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, regulators and citizens - which will contribute to developing a culture of continuous learning, collaboration and open engagement and reflection within the area of online harm reduction.
Overall, REPHRAIN focuses on interdisciplinary leadership provided by a highly experienced team and supported by state-of-the-art facilities, to develop and apply scientific expertise to ensure that the benefits of a digital society can be enjoyed safely and securely by all.
Combining world-leading experts from the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Bath, King's and UCL, the REPHRAIN Centre will use an interdisciplinary approach - alongside principles of responsible innovation and creative engagement - to develop new insights that allow the socio-economic benefits of a digital economy to be maximised whilst minimising the online harms that emerge from this.
REPHRAIN's leadership team will drive these insights in technical, social, behavioural, policy and regulatory research on privacy, privacy enhancing technologies and online harms, through an initial scoping phase and 25 inaugural projects.
The work of REPHRAIN will be focused around three core missions and four engagement and impact objectives. Mission 1 emphasises the requirement to deliver privacy at scale whilst mitigating its misuse to inflict harms. This will focus on reconciling the tension between data privacy and lawful expectations of transparency by not only drawing heavily on advances in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), but also leveraging the full range of socio-technical approaches to rethink how we can best address potential trade-offs. Mission 2 emphasises the need to minimise harms whilst maximising the benefits from a sharing-driven digital economy, redressing citizens' rights in transactions in the data-driven economic model by transforming the narrative from privacy as confidentiality only to also include agency, control, transparency and ethical and social values. Finally, Mission 3 focuses on addressing the balance between individual agency and social good, developing a rigorous understanding of what privacy represents for different sectors and groups in society (including those hard to reach), the different online harms to which they may be exposed, and the cultural and societal nuances impacting effectiveness of harm-reduction approaches in practice.
These missions are supported by four engagement and impact objectives that represent core pillars of REPHRAIN's approach: (1) design and engagement; (2) adoption and adoptability; (3) responsible, inclusive and ethical innovation; and (4) policy and regulation. Combined, these objectives will deliver co-production, co-creation and impact at scale across academia, industry, policy and the third sector.
These activities will be complemented by a capability fund, which will ensure that REPHRAIN activities remain flexible and responsive to current issues, addressing emerging capability gaps, maximising impact and cultivating a public space for collaboration. REPHRAIN will be managed by a Strategic Board and supported by an External Advisory Group, the REPHRAIN Ethics Board, and will work with multiple external stakeholders across industry, public, and the third sector.
Outcomes from the centre will be synthesised into the REPHRAIN Toolbox - a one-stop resource for researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, regulators and citizens - which will contribute to developing a culture of continuous learning, collaboration and open engagement and reflection within the area of online harm reduction.
Overall, REPHRAIN focuses on interdisciplinary leadership provided by a highly experienced team and supported by state-of-the-art facilities, to develop and apply scientific expertise to ensure that the benefits of a digital society can be enjoyed safely and securely by all.
Organisations
- University of Bristol (Lead Research Organisation)
- COVENTRY UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- University of Hertfordshire (Collaboration)
- QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (Collaboration)
- The Open University (Collaboration)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Collaboration)
- National Crime Agency (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- University of Ulster (Collaboration)
- Teesside University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- OFCOM (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF KENT (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Home Office (Project Partner)
- Google (United States) (Project Partner)
- The Health Data Exchange (Project Partner)
- Genies Inc (Project Partner)
- Harvard University (Project Partner)
- National Police of the Netherlands (Project Partner)
- The Tor Project (Project Partner)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Project Partner)
- KU Leuven (Project Partner)
- Oblivious Software Ltd (Project Partner)
- UKAuthority (Project Partner)
- OneSpan (Project Partner)
- Government of the United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Bristol City Council (Project Partner)
- Metropolitan Police Service (Project Partner)
- Centre for the Cultivation of Technology (Project Partner)
- Open Rights Group (Project Partner)
- Hazy (Project Partner)
- Burges Salmon LLP (Project Partner)
- digi.me Limited (Project Partner)
- Cybsafe Limited (Project Partner)
- Privitar (Project Partner)
- Competition and Markets Authority (Project Partner)
Publications
Abadi A
(2022)
Multi-party Updatable Delegated Private Set Intersection
Abadi A
(2022)
Recurring contingent service payment
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(2023)
Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse
Bada M
(2022)
SME Privacy Starter Pack (SPSP) prototype
Bin Zia H
(2022)
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
in ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
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(2023)
Motivations for Collecting Digital NFT Fashion
| Description | All Party Parliamentary Group meeting - Metaverse and Web 3.0 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Call for Evidence: Connected tech: smart or sinister |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/1/670/files/2023/02/Connected-tech-call-for-e... |
| Description | DCMS Call for evidence - Misinformation and Trusted Voices |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/1/670/files/2023/02/Call-for-evidence-Misinfo... |
| Description | Data: A New Direction - Joint REPHRAIN and CGLI Consultation Response |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Home Office consultation: Unauthorised access to online accounts and personal data |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/1/670/files/2023/02/Home-Office-unauthorised-... |
| Description | Inclusion of tech abuse in the Australian National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book by REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://dfvbenchbook.aija.org.au/understanding-domestic-and-family-violence/following-harassing-and-... |
| Description | Introduction meeting between REPHRAIN and the Chief Scientific Office for National Security |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Members of the CMA 1990 project signed a Letter of Support coordinated by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to urge for the implementation of revisions to the " Controlling or Coercive Behaviour Statutory Guidance " |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/controlling-or-coercive-behaviour-statutory-guidance |
| Description | Ofcom call for evidence: First phase of online safety regulation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/1/670/files/2023/02/Ofcom-online-safety-REPHR... |
| Description | Research from the CMA 1990 project on the Computer Misuse Act and Tech Abuse was cited in a new UK Home Office report. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-evidence-in-appeal-judgement-transcripts/using-ap... |
| Description | Security and Privacy settings in Apps and App Stores |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-rules-for-apps-to-boost-consumer-security-and-privacy |
| Description | The REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project input to the Violence Against Women and Girls Digital Strategy. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | The REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project provided a presentation on the current state of tech abuse research for the IEEE Working Group ( P2987 ) "Recommended Practice principles for Design and Operation Addressing Technology-Facilitated Inter-personal Control" |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | The REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project submitted written evidence on the statutory guidance framework "Controlling or Coercive Behaviour Statutory Guidance Framework". |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statutory-guidance-framework-controlling-or-coercive-beha... |
| Description | The REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project submitted written evidence to the DCMS "Connected Tech - Smart or Sinister" inquiry. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6686/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister/#:~:text=The%20Connected... |
| Description | The REPHRAIN funded project, CMA 1990 consulted on the development of "Orbits: a global field guide to advance intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed interventions to technology-facilitated gender-based violence" by the support organisation and charity Chayn. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | The Right to Privacy: Digital Data (An Engineering Perspective) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/672/ |
| Description | The research from the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project helped inform the new Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Impact | The impact of this new bill will be the requirement of IoT manufacturers, importers and distributors to meet new cyber security standards, |
| Description | Towards a Framework for Evaluating CSAM Prevention and Detection Tools in the Context of End-to-end encryption Environments: a Case Study |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/1/670/files/2023/02/Safety-Tech-Challenge-Fun... |
| Description | CSPM: the usability of Configuring the Security and Privacy Mechanisms of Smart Home Devices |
| Amount | £13,904 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Independent evaluators of the Safety Tech Challenge Fund |
| Amount | £11,822 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | SoBigData RI PPP |
| Amount | £72,914 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Title | CMA 1990 (Applicability of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 for tech abuse cases) project |
| Description | The dataset includes 529 cases that could involve tech abuse from three legal databases: Westlaw Lexis Library Bailli The cases reviewed were from 2020 - 2022. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This dataset was used to inform the continuation of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project resulting in academic papers, policy consultations and input into other policy/stakeholder resources. |
| Title | Global Tech Policy Atlas |
| Description | The Global Tech Policy Atlas is a public repository of national tech policy, strategy, legislation and regulation. Its purpose is to assist policymakers and researchers conduct evidence-based independent research. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The Atlas captures policy, strategy, legislation and/or regulation made at the federal or national level; initiated with the stated purpose to address a problem or harness an opportunity created or intensified by cyberspace or digital technologies; launched, authorised or approved by the government (ie: not just proposed); in the last 10 years (January 2012 to present). |
| URL | https://techpolicydesign.au/tech-policy-atlas#:~:text=The%20Global%20Tech%20Policy%20Atlas,expand%20... |
| Title | Illicit COVID-19 products online: Identifying and preventing online health risks |
| Description | The dataset includes qualitative analysis hits of illicit COVID-19 products online. It includes a description of the items identified for sale on DWMs, marketplaces identified as selling platform for COVID-19 related product and a structure of product type by vendors |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset collected will be used to produce a conference/journal paper. |
| Title | Layers of meaning attached to different explanations by different stakeholders |
| Description | This dataset was collected as part of the REPHRAIN funded project Social Explainability (SOXAI) for trustworthy AI: What types of explanations can help users develop appropriate trust? The data set forms part of a valuable resource for researchers interested in trustworthy AI, practitioners working particularly in the field of explainability but also e.g. in the field of technology, advocacy and ethics, and policymakers and regulators who want to find novel ways of increasing the basic trustworthiness of algorithmically driven technologies. The in-depth qualitative dataset resulting from the participatory sessions with stakeholders will serve as a resource for researchers interested in the layers of meaning attached to different explanations by different stakeholder groups represented in the data collection sessions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset collected will be used to inform other outputs from the project including a user interface for testing the quality of different types of explanations; this will include the capability to insert other, novel explanations and to elicit immediate feedback particularly on the impact of these explanations on user trust as well as other effects. |
| Title | MuMiN - A large-scale multilingual multimodal fact-checked misinformation social network dataset |
| Description | The MuMiN dataset is a challenging misinformation benchmark for automatic misinformation detection models. The dataset is structured as a heterogeneous graph and features 21,565,018 tweets and 1,986,354 users, belonging to 26,048 Twitter threads, discussing 12,914 fact-checked claims from 115 fact-checking organisations in 41 different languages, spanning a decade. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset provides a benchmark for automatic misinformation detection models. |
| URL | https://mumin-dataset.github.io/ |
| Title | NEWS project - Seed dataset |
| Description | The NEWS-Seed Dataset is a database containing personality scores of 123 surveyed users of reddit, and comments they have made on Reddit. The dataset has the four following collections: Full_Survey - Containing the full results from the users big five personality survey. With 123 entries. CommentCrawl - Containing surveyed users comments and informative meta data (subreddit, thread title). This dataset has ~230,000 comments collected and is still growing. PotentialSurveys - Containing 18,000 users who would be suitable for messaging on reddit to participate in our survey (i.e. they have posted comments on NEWS content) VoucherRaffles - Containing voucher results for 94 users who requested to participate in a raffle for amazon vouchers. The dataset is about 270mb in total size and is a mongodb database. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The seed database will be used to design and develop a personality prediction model. |
| Title | Privacy-Enhancing Technology and Everyday Augmented Reality: Understanding Bystanders' Varying Needs for Awareness and Consent |
| Description | This data is for our ACM IMWUT 2022 paper "Privacy-Enhancing Technology and Everyday Augmented Reality: Understanding Bystanders' Varying Needs for Awareness and Consent". See the README for more details. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset was used to support the paper Privacy-Enhancing Technology and Everyday Augmented Reality: Understanding Bystander' Varying Needs for Awareness and Consent. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7244156 |
| Title | User Survey App Permissions |
| Description | Dataset relating to a study reported in "Mohammad Tahaei, Ruba Abu-Salma, and Awais Rashid. 2023. Stuck in the Permissions With You: Developer & End-User Perspectives on App Permissions & Their Privacy Ramifications. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI' 23), April 23- 28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 24 pages. https: //doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581060" |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Outcomes from this research dataset will help inform the REPHRAIN testbed development. |
| URL | https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/2qv93u6isblq42ixbofaahnfwm/ |
| Description | Collaboration between REPHRAIN and Ofcom |
| Organisation | Ofcom |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Regular meetings are held between members of the REPHRAIN team and the Online Technology team at Ofcom. This has resulted in PhD students working at Ofcom at interns. Ofcom have also contributed to the developmental work undertaken on the REPHRAIN testbed and will be user of the testbed once completed. Ofcom have contributed at REPHRAIN showcase events acting on the industry panel discussing challenges in the online safety space that organisations face. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Regular meetings are held between members of the REPHRAIN team and the Online Technology team at Ofcom. This has resulted in PhD students working at Ofcom at interns. Ofcom have also contributed to the developmental work undertaken on the REPHRAIN testbed and will be user of the testbed once completed. Ofcom have contributed at REPHRAIN showcase events acting on the industry panel discussing challenges in the online safety space that organisations face. |
| Impact | Student internships at Ofcom. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration between the National Crime Agency and the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project. |
| Organisation | National Crime Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Members of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 (The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 on tech abuse cases)with the National Crime Agency, specifically the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Directorate - who are working on a VAWG Digital Strategy. Advice and guidance based the research of CMA 1990 was provided. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 (The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 on tech abuse cases)with the National Crime Agency, specifically the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Directorate - who are working on a VAWG Digital Strategy. Advice and guidance based the research of CMA 1990 was provided. |
| Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 (The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 on tech abuse cases)with the National Crime Agency, specifically the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Directorate - who are working on a VAWG Digital Strategy. Advice and guidance based the research of CMA 1990 was provided. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore. |
| Organisation | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | REPHRAIN was approached by A*STAR to discuss common interests in the protecting citizens online area. Following this REPHRAIN was invited to support the submission of a research proposal on combatting online mis/disinformation and agreed should the proposal be successful to explore possibilities of joining the steering board, researcher participation and collaboration through joint research projects. This led to a meeting with the Director of the division at the Singapore Ministry of Comms and Information responsible for technology aspects of countering online harms during his visit to the UK on 08 November 2022. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A*STAR requested REPHRAIN provide support for their research proposal on combatting online mis/disinformation in April 2022. |
| Impact | A meeting with the Director of the division at the Singapore Ministry of Comms and Information responsible for technology aspects of countering online harms during his visit to the UK on 08 November 2022. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Ofcom Making Sense of Media |
| Organisation | Ofcom |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | An introductory meeting between the core REPHRAIN researcher for the Policy and Regulation strand and the Ofcom Making Sense of Media team. A follow up meeting to discuss potential collaboration as part of the Mental Health and Media Literacy project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | An introductory meeting between the core REPHRAIN researcher for the Policy and Regulation strand and the Ofcom Making Sense of Media team. A follow up meeting to discuss potential collaboration as part of the Mental Health and Media Literacy project. |
| Impact | No direct outputs as yet. The REPHRAIN team are working with Ofcom to see how the REPHRAIN projects align with the Making Sense of Media remit and to identify which projects would be best for further collaboration and input. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Researcher-in-Residence - Coventry University |
| Organisation | Coventry University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding to Beate Grawemeyer to undertake the "AI explanations for intelligent tutoring systems (AIEX)" research project held at Coventry University, under its Researcher in Residence programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The AIEX project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The AIEX project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Researcher-in-Residence - Kings College London |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding to Tom van Nuenen to undertake the "INTERSECT: Understanding intersectional experiences of unfair treatment caused by automated systems" research project held at Kings College London, under its Researcher in Residence programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The INTERSECT project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The INTERSECT project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Researcher-in-Residence - University of Bristol (Jean Golding Institute) |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding to Hen Wilkinson to undertake the "PeaceTech in Action: Tools, methods and approaches to minimise online harms" research project held at the Jean Golding Institute at the University of Bristol, under its Researcher in Residence programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The PeaceTech in Action project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The PeaceTech project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 1 - Northumbria University |
| Organisation | Northumbria University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN centre has provided funding for the Key2Kindness research project held at the Northumbria University, under its first Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Key2Kindness project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The Key2Kindness project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 1 - University College London |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the CMA 1990 research project held at the University College London, under its first Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CMA 1990 project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The CMA 1990 team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 1 - University of Coventry |
| Organisation | Coventry University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the SOXAI research project held at the University of Coventry, under its first Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The SOXAI project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The SOXAI project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 1 - University of Edinburgh |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the PhishEd research project held at the University of Edinburgh, under its first Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The PhishEd project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The PhishEd have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 1 - University of Glasgow |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN centre has provided funding for the PriXR research project held at the University of Glasgow, under its first Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The PriXR project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The PriXR project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 1 - University of Hertfordshire |
| Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the COVSAF research project held at the University of Hertfordshire, under its first Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The COVSAF project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The COVSAF project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 1 - University of Strathclyde |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the PART research project held at the University of Strathclyde, under its first Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The PART project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The PART project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 1 - University of Ulster |
| Organisation | Ulster University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the PORTAS research project held at the University of Ulster, under its first Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The PORTAS project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The PORTAS project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 2 - Queen Mary's University London |
| Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the DSNmod research project held at the Queen Mary's University of London, under its second Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The DSNmod project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The DSNmod project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 2 - Queen Mary's University London |
| Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the PETs4SMEs research project held at the Queen Mary's University London, under its second Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The PETs4SMEs project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The PETs4SMEs project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 2 - Teesside University |
| Organisation | Teesside University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the WELL-CONSENT research project held at the Teesside University, under its second Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WELL-CONSENT project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The WELL-CONSENT project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 2 - University of Edinburgh |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the PRINSUR research project held at the University of Edinburgh, under its second Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The PRINSUR project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The PRINSUR project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 3 - Teesside University |
| Organisation | Teesside University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the SELF-PROTECT research project held at the Teesside University, under its third Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The SELF-PROTECT project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The SELF-PROTECT project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 3 - The Open University |
| Organisation | Open University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding for the Protecting Girls from Online Harm: an inner-city exploration (PGOH) research project held at The Open University, under its third Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Protecting Girls from Online Harm: an inner-city exploration (PGOH) project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The PGOH project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 3 - University College London |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding for the "Protecting (young) victims of cryptocurrency fraud" research project held at the University College London, under its third Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 3 - University of Bristol |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding for the SOLD (Sextortion Offending: Locations and Dynamics) research project held at the University of Bristol, under its third Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The SOLD project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The SOLD project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 3 - University of East London |
| Organisation | University of East London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding for the VIRRAC (Virtual Reality Risks Against Children) research project held at the University of East London, under its third Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The VIRRAC project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The VIRRAC project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 3 - University of Glasgow |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding for the MetaSafeChild research project held at the University of Glasgow under its third Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The MetaSafeChild project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The MetaSafeChild project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 3 - University of Kent |
| Organisation | University of Kent |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding for the "A pragmatic approach for generating synthetic dataset for protecting young people from online harm" research project held at the University of Kent under its third Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 3 - University of Northumbria |
| Organisation | Northumbria University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN project has provided funding for the CSAC research project (creating a child sexual abuse conversation dataset) held at the Northumbria University, under its third Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CSAC project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The CSAC project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call 3 - University of York |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The REPHRAIN research centre has provided funding for the GAME-SHIELD - A data-driven video game rating system for the prevention of online financial harms in video games research project held at the University of York, under its third Strategic Funding Call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The GAME-SHIELD project will provide outputs that will directly feed into both the REPHRAIN Map and REPHRAIN toolbox. |
| Impact | The GAME-SHIELD project team have become part of the wider REPHRAIN team and are actively involved and engaged in all activities. The final outputs of the project will feed directly into the REPHRAIN Map and toolbox. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN independent evaluation of solutions produced as part of the DCMS funded Safety Tech Challenge Fund (STFC) |
| Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | REPHRAIN has put together an independent evaluation team to produce evaluation criteria for the solutions provided by the successful suppliers to this challenge fund. |
| Collaborator Contribution | DCMS are funding the Safety Tech Challenge Fund and has awarded five organisations each to prototype and evaluate innovative ways in which sexually explicit images or videos of children can be detected and addressed within end-to-end encrypted environments, while ensuring user privacy is respected. |
| Impact | The evaluation criteria applied to the suppliers has been published for public consultation and will the final version will be a publicly available document on the REPHRAIN website. A final evaluation report on all solutions will also be published. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Title | Artefact for META paper submitted to ACSAC 2022. |
| Description | This repo shows the artifacts of the paper Stopping Silent Sneaks: Defending against Malicious Mixes with Topological Engineering. We developed two tools: 1. routesim to evaluate the topologies on their expected security metrics (i.e., expected time to first compromise/number of messages to first compromise for the clients) of typical dynamic email-like usage; 2. Mixnets topology generator (MTG) to produce the mixnet topologies and calculate the security/performance metrics (e.g., end-to-end compromised path, guessing entropy, and queuing delay) based on the generated topologies. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The tools and simulator helped inform the ACSAC accepted paper Stopping Silent Sneaks: Defending against Malicious Mixes with Topological Engineering. |
| Title | REPHRAIN Map of Online harms, risks and vulnerabilities |
| Description | 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. The content of the map is co-created and routinely updated by researchers within REPHRAIN, based on developments within the field and community feedback. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The REPHRAIN Map is being accessed by researchers and other users when identifying literature, tools and projects related to certain online harms. |
| URL | https://rephrain-map.co.uk/ |
| Title | Truman social media platform |
| Description | The REPHRAIN members at the University of Bath have developed a simulated social media platform which can be used to conduct experimental research by collecting behavioural data. As an example the platform can be used to understand bystander interventions online and the effectiveness of content moderation strategies. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The platform can be used to understand bystander interventions online and the effectiveness of content moderation strategies. |
| Description | AsSIST-UK (UK Association for Studies in Innovation, Science and Technology) ECR summer school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN core team attended the AsSIST-UK (UK Association for Studies in Innovation, Science and Technology) Early Career Researchers summer school at The Guildhall, York on 07 September 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Attendance at ASTIN cyber workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PI from the REPHRAIN funded PRINSUR project attended the 5th ASTIN cyber workshop (ACW) on 31 October 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Attendance at Symposium on Usable Security (USEC) 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The RA of the REPHRAIN funded PhishEd project presented their paper at the Symposium on Usable Security (USEC) 2023 workshop at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium - 27 February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Attendance at the Designing Tech for Social Cohesion conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hen Wilkinson, one of the REPHRAIN Researchers-in-Residence working on the PeachTech in Action project, attended the Council on Technology and Social Cohesion's conference "Designing Tech for Social Cohesion" - 23-25 February 2023, San Francisco. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://techandsocialcohesion.org/conference/ |
| Description | Attendance at the Lloyds Cyber Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded PRINSUR project attended the Lloyd's Cyber Summit in London on 01 November 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Attendance at the Lloyds Lab Cyber Innovation Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded PRINSUR project attended the Lloyd's Lab Cyber Innovation Showcase on 01 November 2022. As the number and complexity of cyber risks and attacks is increasing, so is proliferation of cyber insurance solutions providing capabilities for a full cyber value chain. Lloyd's Lab is showcasing the most innovative cyber solutions from the Lab alumni and businesses working with Lloyd's market. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Bystanders and Privacy talk by REPHRAIN funded PriXR project. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PI from the REPHRAIN funded PriXR project gave a presentation at the workshop "The Nature of Augmented Reality" as part of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/cspe/projects/augmentedrealityethicsperceptionmetaphysics/#worksho... |
| Description | Capability approach workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was designed with two sessions, one being a panel discussion on "Beyond Usability" and the second a session "Setting the Foundations". The event was by directed invite to ensure the most appropriate people attended. The discussion from the workshop led to the production of the Capability Approach manifesto that is now published on the REPHRAIN website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/1/670/files/2023/02/Capability-Approach-Manif... |
| Description | DCMS funded Safety Tech Challenge Fund evaluation report - public consultation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 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. The evaluation criteria document was released for public consultation on 08 April 2022 with comments invited. 14 comments were received and considered by the evaluation team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rephrain.ac.uk/safety-tech-challenge-fund/ |
| Description | ESOCITE/4S - Society for Social Studies of Science - Andrés Dominguéz |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andrés Dominguéz a member of the REPHRAIN core research team gave a talk at the Society for Social Studies of Science, 4S/ESOCITE 2nd joint meeting in Cholula, Mexico - 07-10 December 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/past-meetings/4s-2022-cholula/ |
| Description | Engineering Research Showcase - REPHRAIN - Understanding the Online Harm Landscape |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was given at the University of Bristol Faculty of Engineering research showcase event. This event is run every 2 years with invitations made to selected, interested industry partners from across the Faculty over a 5 day period. REPHRAIN was represented on 2 occasions at the showcase with this event attracting 26 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Interview by Dr Leonie Tanczer for a Cosmopolitan article on the rise of Apple AirTag tracking. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Leonie Tanczer from the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 (The Applicability of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 for tech abuse cases) was interviewed for a Cosmopolitan article on the rise of Apple AirTag tracking. An AirTags is a coin-sized wireless Bluetooth product that can be attached to items like keys, wallets, or a bag, for a person to track their personal possessions if they get lost. These systems have been shown to be misused in cases of stalking and domestic violence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Introduction to Language Technology Applications - summer course - Adam Sutton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Adam Sutton from the REPHRAIN funded NEWS project (Predicting Personality from News Consumption) gave a talk at the Introduction to Language Technology Applications summer school - 11-15 July 2022, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://ixa.ehu.eus/iltapp/ |
| Description | Invited External Expert, FCAS Software Enterprise Consortium program, Certification by Construction Workshop - Inah Omoronyia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Inah Omoronyia, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol and member of REPHRAIN research centre was invited as an external expert to the CAS Software Enterprise Consortium program, Certification by Construction Workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Talk at CRIM Centre in Canada: REPHRAIN National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited talk at CRIM: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal to present the programme of research within REPHRAIN and explore opportunities for collaborative research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Keynote speech IEEE International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security 2021, Islamabad, Pakistan: Developing a programme of research on privacy, harm reduction and adversarial influence online: The REPHRAIN Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a keynote speech to discuss challenges with regards to privacy and online harms and the programme of research within REPHRAIN. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lab tour and discussion - Amazon (UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hosted visit of industry partner to BCSG Testbed facilities - including tour and demonstration of PETRAS demonstrator and CyFoo Agritech testbed. Followed by discussion of partnership opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Lab tour and discussion - Chris Ensor (Deputy Director for Cyber Growth, NCSC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted visit of industry partner to BCSG Testbed facilities - including tour and demonstration of PETRAS demonstrator and CyFoo Agritech testbed. Followed by discussion of on-going opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Lab tour and seminar as part of week-long visit - Mark Yampolskiy, Auburn University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hosted week-long research visit of academic collaborator to BCSG Testbed facilities - including tour and demonstration of PETRAS demonstrator and CyFoo Agritech testbed. Followed by discussion of on-going research and partnership opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Members of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project were interview conducted BurgenlänIdische Volkszeitung ( BVZ ; German language newspaper). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project (The Applicability of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 on tech abuse cases) featured in an interview conducted by BurgenlänIdische Volkszeitung ( BVZ ; German language newspaper). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bvz.at/oberpullendorf/im-vereinigten-koenigreich-von-raiding-ins-ausland-forschung-zu-mi... |
| Description | New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN core team presented their work "From Utility to Capability: A New Paradigm to Conceptualize and Develop Inclusive PETs" at the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 22) which was held in New Hampshire, US - 24-27 October 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.nspw.org/ |
| Description | Novel Challenges of Safety, Security and Privacy in Extended Reality workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN funded PriXR project (Protecting Extended Reality User and Bystander Privacy by Support Legibility of XR Sensing and Processing) gave a workshop on work undertaken as part of the project at the Novel Challenges of Safety, Security and Privacy in Extended Reality workshop, CHI 22 - 30 April - 5 May 2022 - New Orleans, LA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Ofcom internal seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN team were invited to attend an internal Ofcom seminar presented to 140 attendees. Results from the HARM and MITIGATE project were presented along with discussion from the UKRI SPF PRIME project. The seminar involved 2 x 20 min presentations with Q&A and took place on 15 November 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Online VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) roundtable organised by REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | "Online VAWG" Roundtable organised by the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 (Applicability of the Computer Misuse Act 1990) project together with the National Crime Agency and MET Police on 19 October 2022 at UCL to inform the development of the first-ever VAWG Strategic Threat and Risk Assessment (STRA). Follow up meeting with NCA and OFCOM as a consequence of Policy Roundtable and NCA now agreed to review the CMA 1990 project dataset and will use it for their own work to see if they can improve internal processes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Podcast - IEEE XR Ethics: The Erosion of Privacy & Anonymity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PI from the REPHRAIN funded PriXR project recorded a podcast with Voices of VR by kenbye. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Poster on the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project presented as part of the REPHRAIN showcase. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PI of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 (The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for tech abuse cases) presented a poster for the REPHRAIN showcase poster session held at Goodenough College, London on 19 January 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/1/670/files/2023/01/CMA-1990-Poster-January-2... |
| Description | Presentation as part of the ISST Talks with I-X: Digital privacy and consumer IoT systems by members of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PI of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 (The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for tech abuse cases) presented at the ISST Talks with I-X: Digital privacy and consumer IoT systems at Imperial College London on 23 November 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isst-talks-with-i-x-digital-privacy-and-consumer-iot-systems-tickets-... |
| Description | Presentation at Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded META project team presented their paper Stopping Silent Sneaks: Defending against Malicious Mixes with Topological Engineering at the ACSAC 2022 conference held 04-08 December 2023 in Austin, Texas, USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.acsac.org/ |
| Description | Presentation at BILETA (British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association) conference 2022 - LAWREG project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Francesca Farmer from the REPHRAIN research project "LAWREG" presented their research work "Third-Party Cookies, Data Analytics and Targeted Advertisement: Of Data Protection Law and Regulation" as part of the parallel session "Privacy, data protection and Survelliance". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bileta.org.uk/annual-conference/ |
| Description | Presentation at Futures - A Festival of Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andrés Dominguéz, a member of the REPHRAIN core team was invited to speak at an event "Grappling with harms in the metaverse through speculative design and science fiction" which looked at "What happens to our physical bodies when our minds are immersed in the fictional worlds of television and film? How can virtual reality technology create a feeling of really 'being there' at a virtual event? What is the metaverse, and who should control it? What is the value of beauty in science?" Andrés was invited due to his studies the metaverse and VR/AR technologies and interest in questions of ethics, empowerment and inclusivity concerning digital technology and society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://futuresnight.co.uk/ |
| Description | Presentation at Protecting public-facing professionals and their dependents online (3PO) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An overview presentation of REPHRAIN and its activities was given as part of the Protecting public-facing professionals and their dependents online (3PO) consortium meeting in Cambridge on 30 September 2022. The 3PO project is part of the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund node projects. The consortium meeting was attended by researchers in the consortium and police officers involved in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at the workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB 2022) by the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | members of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 (The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for tech abuse cases) were invited to present at the workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (SHB 2022) helf at the University of Cambridge on the 30 May 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation by the PhishEd project team at the CDT in Natural Language Processing Industry Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN funded PhishEd (Automated Phishing Feedback to End-Users) project team presented at the University of Edinburgh CDT in Natural Language Processing Industry Day - 25 February 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation to Royal Society of Edinburgh workshop series on Everyday XR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The workshop "The Nature of Augmented Reality" laid the groundwork by focussing on the technology of Augmented Reality itself. Speakers from industry and academia will outline the state of the technology today, and its future trajectory. How the technology works - the processing, the optics, the software, and the interfaces - is highly salient to a range of philosophical and policy considerations. This workshop's main aim is to establish a common understanding and language around the technology for the benefit of the project as a whole. The PI from the REPHRAIN funded PriXR project was a speaker at the workshop, held by the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow on 27 January 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/cspe/projects/augmentedrealityethicsperceptionmetaphysics/#worksho... |
| Description | Presentation to SPRITE+ Community of Interest: TIPSS in the Metaverse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded PriXR project were invited to to give a presentation on their research at the SPRITE+ Community of Interest: TIPSS in the Metaverse kick off meeting on 04 October 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (Jan 23) - CSAE presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk "CSAE: A comprehensive Data Science Framework" was given by Erik van Sandt - one of the REPHRAIN Practitioners-in-Residence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (Jan 23) - Introduction to the Tech Policy Atlas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN SURVEY project introduced the Global Tech Policy Atlas that has been created in collaboration with the Australian National University. The Global Tech Policy Atlas is a public repository of national tech policy, strategy, legislation and regulation. Its purpose is to assist policymakers and researchers conduct evidence-based independent research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://techpolicydesign.au/tech-policy-atlas#:~:text=The%20Global%20Tech%20Policy%20Atlas,expand%20... |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (Jan 23) - Mapping key outputs to the REPHRAIN toolbox workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The session led by members of the REPHRAIN core team was the first step in building a synthesis of outputs across all the REPHRAIN projects (currently 37 projects). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (Jan 23) - Privacy Clinics workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This session was a follow up from previous workshop looking at the creation of a series of REPHRAIN privacy clinics. Its aim was to start developing the design for the first prototype. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (Jan 23) - Safeguarding researchers dealing with sensitive subjects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This interactive workshop allowed a safe space for researchers to come together to discuss the issues that are involved when dealing with research involving sensitive subjects. It was led by Dr Claudia Peersman, one of the core REPHRAIN team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - AGENCY project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The UKRI/EPSCR Strategic Priorities Fund funded AGENCY project - ASSURING CITIZEN AGENCY IN A WORLD WITH COMPLEX ONLINE HARMS - presented an introduction and preliminary findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - Developing a programme of privacy clinics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aim of this workshop was to explore ways in which REPHRAIN as a centre could establish and administer privacy clinics for marginalised and vulnerable groups. It took place on 07 July 2022 at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - Did You Give Permission? Examining Software Development Kits (SDKs) in the Mobile Ecosystem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This interactive session presented public-facing research, building explainability models to empower user understanding of the extraction and sharing of personal data in the mobile ecosystem. The workshop introduced the static analysis of more than 6,000 Android mobile apps, culminating in a novel typology for understanding how third party SDKs access personal data to power the inference economy. It was anticipated that this would spark debate in REPHRAIN around emerging privacy regulations and insight on porting this research to dynamic analysis in a testbed environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - FAIRCROWD project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN FAIRCROWD project - Fair Private and Distributed Evaluation of Crowd-sourced User Data - presented findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - Intro to Policy and Regulation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This session provided an introduction to the Policy and Regulation strand and focus on how projects and the strand can start working together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - PART project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded PART project - Privacy-at-Ransom Testbed- presented an introduction and preliminary findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - PETs4SMEs project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded PETs4SMEs project - Supporting and Enabling Effective Privacy Decision Making for SMEs - presented an introduction and preliminary findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - PORTAS project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded PORTAS project - Prevention of Online Recruitment into Human Trafficking using Automated Solutions - presented an introduction and preliminary findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - PRAISE project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN PRAISE project - Privacy Norms in AI-based Systems - presented an introduction and preliminary findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - PRESERVE project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PRESERVE project - Privacy-preserving Communication for Lightweight Applications - presented preliminary findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - PRINSUR project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded PRINSUR project - Consumer Privacy Insurance: A Privacy Enhancing Financial Product? - presented an introduction and preliminary findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - PhishEd project workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The workshop asked participants to think about the range of phishing that makes it through automated filters into people's inboxes and the most appropriate advice to give users around how to deal with an email that looks odd. In the workshop participants looked at phishing emails, advice, and were encouraged to think through how the typically-general advice given to users might be automatically contextualized to match a specific phishing example. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - REPHRAIN Map workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop gave an update on the REPHRAIN MAP and shareD the results of the coding work on the papers authored by REPHRAIN members. It took place on 07 July 2022 at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - Research Artefact Taskforce workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This session gave an introduction to the new Research Artefact Taskforce (ReAcT) and discussed the different artefacts that come out of research (datasets, codes), setting up guidelines on how to approach collecting this data and how to check the data, collecting and collating all types of knowledge from a range of REPHRAIN projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - SOXAI project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded SOXAI project - Social Explainability for trustworthy AI: What types of explanations can help users develop appropriate trust? - presented an introduction and preliminary findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - SURVEY project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN SURVEY project - Global Survey of Policy Approaches to Protecting Citizens Online - presented findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - Study Focus Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A study group was undertaken to hear from REPHRAIN members about use cases for a privacy testbed. A privacy testbed to support users such as researchers, developers, businesses, policymakers, regulators, and students to study the privacy properties of software is being built by members of the core REPHRAIN team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (July 22) - WELL-CONSENT project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded WELL-CONSENT project - WELL-CONSENT documents: true consent through subtraction - presented an introduction and preliminary findings from their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - Bring your own datasets workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participants were requested to bring datasets collected as part of their projects to consider how these should be handled to ensure appropriate accessibility and inclusion in the REPHRAIN toolbox. The session considered standards and guidance on data collection, storage and sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - Delivering policy-relevant research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This interactive workshop considered and scoped mutual interests between REPHRAIN and policy partners (Ofcom, the National Crime Agency, Competition and Markets authority) using the research challenges identified by the Policy Strand researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - Experimental social media platform workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this session the use of a simulated social media platform that can be used to conduct experimental research was explored. How the platform can be used and what behavioural data can be collected will be demonstrated and a couple of ongoing projects which use the platform to understand bystander interventions online and the effectiveness of content moderation strategies were outlined. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - Grant proposal writing workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this session guidance, hints/tips and also pitfalls to avoid when making grant submissions were considered. Using audience participation and experience within in the room, good practice and real examples was encouraged and shared. There was a Q&A with an experienced and successful REPHRAIN academics as well as the opportunity to share participants thoughts and experiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - Introduction to PeaceTech in Action |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation Introduction to PeaceTech in Action was given by Hen Wilkinson, a REPHRAIN Researcher-in-Residence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - Protecting online privacy when going through serious life events |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation Protecting online privacy when going through serious life events was given by Wendy Moncur from the UKRI funded AP4L project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - Psychological Microtargeting in Online Environments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on Psychological Microtargeting in Online Environments was given by Adam Sutton, RA from the REPHRAIN NEWS project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - REPHRAIN Map launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN Map team were joined by the external design and development team to demonstrate the first version of the REPHRAIN Map. The session highlighted the current functions and how the Map may be further developed. How updates to the Map will be made was also considered. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - REPHRAIN testbed workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A demonstration of the REPHRAIN PETs testbed was given following recent further development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - Research topics for Strategic Funding call 3 workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was an interactive session to consider the scope and focus research areas to be addressed at the REPHRAIN Strategic Funding Call. Discussions were based around areas already covered by REPHRAIN projects and what gaps should be targeted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting (September 22) - Taking Situation-Based Privacy Decision: Privacy Assistants Working with Humans |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation Taking Situation-Based Privacy Decision: Privacy Assistants Working with Humans was given by Nadin Kokciyan from the REPHRAIN funded PhishEd project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting - Developing PETs testbed scenarios and use cases |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was undertaken as part of the All Hands Meeting in December 2021 where all attendees were given the opportunity to come together to discuss potential testbed scenarios and use cases. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting - PETs testbed hackathon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A hackathon was undertaken as part of the All Hands meeting in December 2021 giving interested researchers to come together to practically input to the testbed development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting - RI Area framework |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop explored responsible research and innovation and the AREA framework (Anticipate Reflect Engage Act), and how methods of reflection and anticipation in the context of online harms research can be applied. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN All Hands Meeting - Working with users |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | During this workshop the idea of working with users was visited and issues around working with users was discussed along with the methods of engagement and how to mitigate some of the challenges that may arise from working in the area of online harms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Masterclass - Challenges and Frontiers in Algorithmic Transparency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A Masterclass titled "Challenges and Frontiers in Algorithmic Transparency" was given by Umang Bhatt from the University of Cambridge on 30 June 2022. This was an online event and attracted 27 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rephrain.ac.uk/rephrain-masterclass-challenges-and-frontiers-in-algorithmic-transparency... |
| Description | REPHRAIN Masterclass - Law & Regulation and online harms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This masterclass was hosted by the REPHRAIN Policy and Regulation strand along with the REPHRAIN SURVEY project. It highlighted a global survey on regulatory initiatives to protect citizens online, the implications of Brexit for UK data protection laws and lesson learnt from interdisciplinary research on privacy-enhancing technologies. The event had 41 attendees with 63% from academia, 34% from industry and 2% from Government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Masterclass - Online harms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A masterclass looking at the overarching challenges of dealing with online harms data was run with 24 attendees both internal and external to REPHRAIN. The masterclass focus on looking at online harms case studies with a follow on round table session to gather best practice principles. The outcomes of this masterclass will help inform further work looking at online harms data and how it should be stored, shared and manipulated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Masterclass - Self-privacy violations in online conversations: definition, roles, and impact during crises |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A Masterclass titled Self-privacy violations in online conversations: definition, roles, and impact during crises" was given by Anna Squicciarini and Sarah Rajtmayer from Penn State University. This was a hybrid event with 30 online and 10 online attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rephrain.ac.uk/rephrain-masterclass-self-privacy-violations-in-online-conversations-defi... |
| Description | REPHRAIN Masterclass - Using Data Science to Study Jerks on the Web |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A member of the REPHRAIN leadership team gave a presentation on their experience of using data science to research fringe communities online. The masterclass had 84 attendees with 53 from academia, 20 from industry and 11 from Government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Masterclass - Using legal databases to study tech-enabled harms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This masterclass used examples to discuss tech abuse, how legal databases have been used in the past to understand emerging trend in crime facilitated by technology, how to conduct a legal database analysis and what information can be obtained. Biases associated with court reports and the potential for automating the search and analysis of court case files and the associated challenges where also discussed. The masterclass had 43 attendees with 31 from academia, 4 from Government, 5 from industry and there were 3 policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Monthly Policy Salons |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN policy salons are closed shop meetings that give interested stakeholders from the policy and regulation area an opportunity to come together to hear about REPHRAIN ongoing activities and to suggest and discuss areas that REPHRAIN research may fit, or gaps that REPHRAIN research could fill. The policy salons are run on a monthly basis by invitation only and will also involve presentations from invited REPHRAIN projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Sandpit - Transforming REPHRAIN research into actionable impacts for protecting citizens online. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This sandpit gave the opportunity for REPHRAIN researchers and practitioners to come together to co-create in common areas to produce an actionable outcome (e.g., building prototypes, guidelines, policy frameworks etc) in London - 20 January 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is the first REPHAIN showcase highlighting the work achieved so far. The event was held in person with 60 attendees from a range of sectors. The event incorporated keynote talks from leading experts, show and tell presentations from REPHRAIN projects and demonstrations of both the REPHRAIN Map and Testbed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Showcase (Jan 23) - Evaluation of CSAM Prevention and Detection Tools in the Context of End-to-end-encryption Environments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given on the role of REPHRAIN in the DCMS funded Safety Tech Challenge Fund in providing an academically based evaluation: the highlights and some of the challenges identified. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Showcase (Jan 23) - Lightening talks from the complementary UKRI funded Protecting Citizen Online projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lightening talks were given from the complementary UKRI funded Protecting Citizen Online projects: AGENCY - Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms - University of Newcastle PRIME - Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online - Herriot-Watt University 3PO - Protecting public-facing professionals and their dependents online - University of Sheffield AP4L - Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People during Life Transitions - University of Surrey |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Showcase (Jan 23) - Online harms and protecting citizens online policy panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | At this panel invited policy makers discussed evidence and what counts as evidence in different policy related settings, different hierarchies of evidence, challenges of establishing evidence and why. The panel also considered success stories in translating research into policy recommendations, internal research conducted in policy organisations and how academics get involved in it. This was all discussed within the online harms and protecting citizens online context. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Showcase (Jan 23) - Poster corner |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A poster corner was run as part of the REPHRAIN showcase where researchers and CDT students had the opportunity to present and share their work in the form of conference posters. Posters were presented from the following REPHRAIN funded projects: CMA 1990, NEWS, PAYMENT, PORTAS, PRINSUR, PriXR, SURVEY, WELL-CONSENT, HARM, MITIGATE, EMBODY, INTERACT, CONTEXT, KEY2KINDNESS, PETs4SMEs and PhishEd. CDT student posters on the following research areas were presented: Governing Digital Immortality Investigating Nation State Cyber Attacks Against Space Infrastructure Poster presentations - Privacy Labels for Home IoT devices |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Showcase (Jan 23) - Presentation "Cart-ology: Intercepting targeted advertising via Ad network identity entanglement" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation titled "Cart-ology: Intercepting targeted advertising via Ad network identity entanglement" was given by Damon McCoy, Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at NYU as a keynote speaker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Showcase (Jan 23) - REPHRAIN Map show and tell |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN Map - a living resource of knowledge around the areas of privacy, harms and risks online, providing a shared understanding of this landscape and establishing a baseline of current state-of-the-art - was demonstrated with follow on Q&A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN Showcase (Jan 23) - REPHRAIN testbed update and use case example |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This presentation highlighted how the REPHRAIN testbed can be used to evaluate PETS with a real use case. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | REPHRAIN blog: Safer Internet - By the People, Of the People, For the People |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Digital participation is critical to our shared access to many essential services, such as education and healthcare. This participation is managed and realised, in part, through avenues such as the Internet, which is rapidly being recognised as a public utility, in a similar manner to transport, infrastructure, etc. While the safety and standards of roads, for example, are long established as matters for public discourse, the debate around online safety is now beginning to gain a similar traction. One example of this growing concern is the establishment and observation of a Safer Internet Day globally - this blog will summarise and reflect on the efforts previously made by system designers, policy makers, local authorities, schools, and parents, using our own expertise and experience to highlight and evolve useful insights for the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rephrain.ac.uk/rephrain-blogs/ |
| Description | REPHRAIN blog: Serious Games, Serious Aims: Privacy Education Through Play |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog will highlight how educational privacy games offer a fun and interactive way of engaging with issues of online privacy. While traditional privacy education strives to convey information in static form, games allow users to become part of the action. By making decisions within the game's virtual world (such as with whom to share personal data), the user can simulate the impact of their actions, which can be highly useful for the user's understanding of real-world phenomena like how decisions about what data you share can impact yourself and others. There are many ways of implementing educational privacy games and this blog post explores four such games with different gameplay styles and approaches to teaching players about privacy. Firstly looking at games with simpler mechanics, and how such mechanics constrain their effectiveness in teaching online privacy. Then to examine more complex mechanics and discuss why they can better convey how to think about online privacy. However, for any educational privacy game to be effective, it must also be available to the public, and so the analysis concludes with argument for developing the capabilities of universities to develop and maintain games. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.rephrain.ac.uk/serious-games-serious-aims-privacy-education-through-play/ |
| Description | REPHRAIN blog: What's so troubling about the metaverse and what can we do about it? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | High profile moves by big technology companies, such as Facebook's rebranding as Meta and their acquisition of virtual reality hardware manufacturer Oculus, have created a sense of inevitability about the advent of the metaverse. Currently, the points of entry to Meta's Metaverse are expensive VR headsets or AR glasses, and an ecosystem of hardware manufacturers and application developers is quickly emerging. Yet while the public sphere is inundated with optimistic future possibilities, these developments are also raising concerns about how emerging modalities of experiencing and accessing the internet could expose people to similar or worse harms to those evidenced with conventional uses of the internet [2]. Some of these include cyberbullying and harassment, misinformation, toxic speech, grooming, discrimination, fraud, privacy violations, biometric profiling and surveillance, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rephrain.ac.uk/rephrain-blogs/ |
| Description | REPHRAIN funded project "The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for cases of technology-enabled domestic violence and abuse (Tech Abuse)" featured in the monthly Gender and IoT newsletter. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN funded project is featured in the monthly newsletter of the Gender and IoT research project at UCL. The Gender and IoT project studies the implications of "smart", internet-connected devices on gender-based domestic violence and abuse and what socio-technical measures will need to be implemented in order to mitigate against those risks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN funded project "The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for cases of technology-enabled domestic violence and abuse (Tech Abuse)" was featured in The Good Robot podcast. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | this podcast discussed why online safety and security are not the same when it comes to protection online; how to identify bad actors while protecting people's privacy; how we can use 'threat modelling' to account for and envision harmful unintended uses of technologies, and how to tackle bad behaviour online that is not yet illegal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vBsHDtclyE5gxsl3OjZBT?si=2b5d0f941da4491d&nd=1 |
| Description | REPHRAIN lunchtime talk - CLARITI project : Misinformation detection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLARITI project team gave a talk to other members of REPHRAIN on their project "CLARITI" disseminating the work they are undertaking on misinformation detection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN lunchtime talk - COMLAW: Consumer law challenges of commercialisation of data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Commercialization of consumers' personal data in the digital economy poses serious, both conceptual and practical, challenges to the traditional approach of Consumer Law. This talk argues that mass-spread, automated, algorithmic decision-making casts doubt on the foundational paradigm of consumer law: consent and autonomy. Moreover, it poses threats of discrimination and undermining of consumer privacy. It is argued that the recent legislative reaction by the EU Commission, in the form of the 'New Deal for Consumers', was a step in the right direction, but fell short due to its continued reliance on consent, autonomy and failure to adequately protect consumers from indirect discrimination. It is posited that a focus on creating a contracting landscape where the consumer may be properly informed in material respects is required, which in turn necessitates blending the approaches of competition, consumer protection and data protection laws. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN lunchtime talk - CONTEXT project: Augmented-based dialogues for privacy policy reasoning. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CONTEXT project team gave a talk to other members of REPHRAIN on their project disseminating the work they are undertaking on Augmented-based dialogues for privacy policy reasoning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN lunchtime talk - Key2Kindess project: A critical reflection on the use of toxicity detection algorithms to support socio-technical systems that proactively moderate toxic speech |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Key2Kindness project team gave a talk to other members of REPHRAIN on their project disseminating the work they have undertaken looking at use of toxicity detection algorithms to support socio-technical systems that proactively moderate toxic speech on 27 April 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN lunchtime talk - NEWS project: Personality detection from produced textual content |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The NEWS project team gave a talk to other members of REPHRAIN on their project disseminating the work they are undertaking on personality detection using produced textual content. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN lunchtime talk - PAYMENT project: Multi-party updatable delegated private set intersection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PAYMENT project team gave a talk to other members of REPHRAIN on their project disseminating the work they have undertaken looking at multi-party updatable delegated private set intersection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN lunchtime talk - PAYMENT project: Recurring contingent payment for proofs of retrievability |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fair exchange protocols let two mutually distrusted parties exchange digital data in a way that neither can cheat. At CCS 2017, Campanelli et al. proposed two blockchain-based protocols for the fair exchange of digital coins and a certain service, i.e., "proofs of retrievability" (PoR), that take place between a buyer and seller. Using fair exchange protocols, users can avoid falling to victim of (certain) frauds. This talk will explain that Campanelli's schemes have two serious issues that we identified; namely, (1) a malicious client can waste the seller's resources, and (2) real-time leakage of information to non-participants in the exchange. It will also explain how we can rectify the issues by using our proposed scheme, called "recurring contingent PoR payment" (RC-PoR-P). It lets the fair exchange reoccur while ensuring that the seller's resources are not wasted, and the parties' privacy is preserved. We have implemented the RCPoR-P. Our cost analysis indicates that the RC-PoR-P is efficient. The RC-PoR-P is the first of its kind that offers all the above features. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN lunchtime talk - Policy and regulation - Using creative methods to engage people in cyber security conversations. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The RA team from the Policy and Regulation strand gave a talk to other members of REPHRAIN on Using creative methods to engage people in cyber security conversations. This took place online on 17 November 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN lunchtime talk - WELL-CONSENT project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The WELL-CONSENT project team gave a talk to other members of REPHRAIN on their project WELL-CONSENT documents: true consent through subtraction, on 26 September 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | REPHRAIN project showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The REPHRAIN project showcase incorporated an opportunity for an internal workshop focusing on the potential call topics for the second REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call. It was then followed by presentations from some of the REPHRAIN projects including new projects funded via the first Strategic Funding call. The project showcase was open to all REPHRAIN members and had 55 attendees (online and in person). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPHRAIN training: How to make an impact with your research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | REPHRAIN hosted an interactive workshop led by PolicyBristol at the University of Bristol working with researchers to start looking at how engagement particularly with policy and policy makers should be considered in their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REPRAIN lunchtime talk - PAYMENT project: Polynomial representation is Tricky: Maliciously secure private set intersection revisited. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Private Set Intersection protocols (PSIs) allow parties to compute the intersection of their private sets, such that nothing about the sets elements beyond the intersection is revealed. PSIs have a variety of applications, primarily in efficiently supporting data sharing in a privacy-preserving manner (e.g., in financial institutes, e-commerce, or even COVID 19 contact tracing solutions). At Eurocrypt 2019, Ghosh and Nilges proposed three efficient PSIs based on the polynomial representation of sets and proved their security against active adversaries. This talk explained that these three PSIs are susceptible to several serious attacks. The attacks let an adversary (1) learn the correct intersection while making its victim believe that the intersection is empty, (2) learn a certain element of its victim s set beyond the intersection, and (3) delete multiple elements of its victim s input set. I will explain why the proofs did not identify these attacks and describe how the attacks can be mitigated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Research presentation by the REHRAIN funded "The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for cases of technology-enabled domestic violence and abuse (Tech Abuse)" project team at Digital-Dialog 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The team from the REPHRAIN funded project "The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for cases of technology-enabled domestic violence and abuse (Tech Abuse)" presented their work to date at this event organised in Marburg-Biedenkopf, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Research presentation by the REPHRAIN funded "The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for cases of technology-enabled domestic violence and abuse (Tech Abuse)" project team at the National Stalking and Harassment virtual conference. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The team from the REPHRAIN funded project "The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for cases of technology-enabled domestic violence and abuse (Tech Abuse)" presented their work to date at this event organised by the National Policy Chiefs Council (NPCC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SPRITE+ Community Building Event: Communicating Cybersecurity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN core team collaborated with SPRITE+ to run a stakeholder mapping workshop at SPRITE+ Community Building Event: Communicating Cybersecurity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Scoping workshops on online harms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The core REPHRAIN research team ran a series of 11 workshops focused on types of online harm, existing approaches around addressing such harms, and other areas of harm that have not yet been addressed. The challenges around investigating certain online harms were also discussed and how best they can be addressed. The workshops were designed to address specific audiences at each event: academics (41); policymakers/regulatory bodies (35); industry (17); law enforcement/third sector organisations (9) and safety tech providers. The aim of the workshops was to elicit comment and input from the specific groups to provide insight for the formulation of the REPHRAIN scoping document alongside a literary review. The scoping document was then utilised to inform the first REPHRAIN strategic funding call and also the UKRO Protecting Citizens Online call for complementary projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/1/670/files/2021/05/REPHRAIN-Scoping-document... |
| Description | Seminar at the Innovation & Digitalisation RT & Smart Networks FRG joint Summer event. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andrés Dominguéz, one of the core REPHRAIN researchers and Richard Owen, a member of the REPHRAIN Strategic Board were invited to speak at the Innovation & Digitalisation RT & Smart Networks FRG joint Summer event on the work they have been undertaking as part of the REPHRAIN Responsible, Inclusive and Ethical Innovation strand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Seminar by Damon McCoy: Cybersecurity for Democracy: Providing Independent Auditing Frameworks for Platform Accountability |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Damon McCoy as a member of the REPHRAIN External Advisory Group, was invited to give a seminar as part of the REPHRAIN hosted project showcase. The seminar had 50 attendees and generated questions and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Talk accepted at Workshop on Graph Learning Benchmarks (GLB 2022) - CLARITI project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The project team for the CLARITI "Social Networks and the Real Danger of Pseudoscience, Fake News and Conspiracy Theories to Public Health" had a talk (A Heterogeneous Graph Benchmark for Misinformation on Twitter) accepted at Workshop on Graph Learning Benchmarks (GLB 2022) atTheWebConf 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk by the CONTEXT project team at TULiPS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given by the researcher on the REPHRAIN project "CONTEXT" to TULiPS (Technology Usability Lab in Privacy and Security) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk by the PhishEd project team at Controversies in the Data Society course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN funded PhishEd (Automated Phishing Feedback to End-Users) gave a talk at the Controversies in the Data Society course on 11 February 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk by the PhishEd project team at Security and Human Behaviour (SHB 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN funded PhishEd (Automated Phishing Feedback for End-Users) were invited to talk at a workshop at Security and Human Behaviour 2022 at the University of Cambridge on 30 May 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/shb22/schedule.html |
| Description | Talk by the PhishEd project team at the Research Bytes seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN funding PhishEd (Automated Phishing Feedback to End-Users) gave a talk at the University of Edinburgh Research Bytes seminar - 25 May 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk to HM Prison and Probation service by members of the CMA 1990 project. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Members of the REPHRAIN funded CMA 1990 project (The applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 for tech abuse cases) were invited to give a talk to the HM Prison and Probation Service on 27 April 2022 on the work being undertaken as part of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk to attendees from Financial Conduct Authority - REPHRAIN National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk to provide an overview of REPHRAIN to FCA and explore areas of future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Tech abuse training for the Education and Training Foundation - CMA 1990 project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tech abuse training to an audience of designated safeguarding officers operating support to both learners and staff (and wider) in all areas of safeguarding within the college setting but also across all independent training provisions, workplace employers (apprenticeship schemes) etc. and adult community learning programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.etfoundation.co.uk |
| Description | Town Hall online event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given to SPRITE+ members and Expert Fellows to highlight the key achievements of REPHRAIN and how to get involved. The event was also an introduction to the first REPHRAIN funding call, looking at the themes of the call, funding available and timescales. The event generated additional interest in the funding call with 7 proposals submitted by event attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Twitter takeover workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop brought together members of REPHRAIN to discuss further the current issues around the recent takeover of Twitter in terms of online harms and safety measures both on Twitter and generally for decentralised social media. Outputs from the workshop then led to a report on this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UKRI Protecting Citizens Online call for complementary projects - information event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event was designed to inform the wider community about the upcoming UKRI call for complementary projects to act as nodes to REPHRAIN. The event contained information on the scoping activities undertaken to produce the scoping document that was used to inform the call as well as further details on the call itself. The event was hosted by REPHRAIN and encouraged all interested parties to attend. A "match making" exercise was also undertaken to join up interested parties with one another with the aim to facilitate collaborations. The event was held online and attracted over 160 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | University of Bristol - Jean Golding Institute (JGI) Data week panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Awais Rashid was invited to participate in a panel discussion on the future of data science and AI as part of the University of Bristol, JGI data week activities in June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bristol.ac.uk/golding/get-involved/data-week/ |
| Description | University of Bristol Vice-Chancellor visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the new University of Bristol Vice-Chancellors visit to the research group on 01 November 2022, a presentation on the activities of REPHRAIN particularly in the policy and regulation space was given. The VC noted the importance of REPHRAIN to the University and led to the VC attending the REPHRAIN Showcase in London (January 2023) as an invited VIP/speaker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Virtual Reality and User-centred Security podcast by the REPHRAIN funded PriXR project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mohamed Khamis from the REPHRAIN funded PriXR project gave a presentation via LinkedIn Live discussing the security challenges VR and IoT devices pose and research building user-centred methods for overcoming these challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Work Experience Week (Year 9/10 students) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A week-long Cyber Security Work Experience programme with Bristol Cyber Security Group (BCSG) at University of Bristol. The university plays a key role in educating and training the future generation of cyber security experts, a career in which there is a shortage of skilled professionals both in the UK and globally. School pupils joined BCSG to experience a range of cyber security topics and hands-on activities and demonstrations in our state-of-the-art facility, and then tackle a team task developing and designing learning resources. Intended Learning Outcomes: a base of knowledge and practical experience for all students to apply to future lessons; an understanding of risk analysis and threat modelling techniques; a high-level understanding of the design principles used to protect a system against an attacker; an introduction to cryptographic tools; an understanding of how cyber security interacts with many different disciplines; techniques for reflecting and discussing their experiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop at NordCHI 22 - Implications of XR on Privacy, Security and Behaviour: Insights from Experts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The team from the REPHRAIN funded PriXR project were invited to give a workshop on their work at NordCHI 22 in Aarhus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://conferences.au.dk/nordichi2022/program/main-program#ps16 |
| Description | Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (CHB 2022) by Prof Awais Rashid |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Awais Rashid gave a presentation at the workshop on Security and Human Behaviour (CHB 2022) at the University of Cambridge on 30-31 May 2022. The presentation was on the work undertaken on Risk thinking in cyber security decision making. https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/250938036/Shreeve_et_al._So_if_Mr_Bluehead.....pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/05/security-and-human-behavior-shb-2022.html |