We were honoured to host a policy roundtable in Westminster sponsored by Jess Asato MP, where we presented our RISE research on violence against women and girls to a packed room of parliamentarians and stakeholders across health, social care, built environment and design.

Hear from several of our Expert Fellows on their experience of attending the SPRITE+ 2026 Expert Fellows Meeting in Edinburgh.

SPRITE+ provided grants to 4 PhD students to attend the University of Bath's CDT Summer School in August 2026. Read all about their experience of attending.

In September 2026, SPRITE+ brought together its Expert Fellows in Edinburgh for a two-day workshop focused on a deceptively simple question: what is TIPSS, and what would it mean to do TIPSS by design? The meeting combined keynote talks, plenary presentations and structured group exercises to explore whether Trust, Identity, Privacy, Security and Safety can be understood not simply as separate concerns, but as part of a unified socio-technical framework.

Read all about our 2026 AIM (Academic-Industry Meeting) Day focused on XR-TIPSS.

SPRITE+ XRCET-TIPSS Deep Dive lead Emma Barrett details her experience of attending Immersive Tech Week in Rotterdam, with a focus on the governance of XR technologies.

Read about how SPRITE+ brought together project leads, policymakers, practitioners, and third-sector partners for our RISE Innovation Forum.

Nine interdisciplinary research and innovation projects have been awarded up to £50,000 each through RISE, an accelerated programme tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) led by researchers at the University of Manchester.

The SPRITE+ team had a fantastic three days exhibiting and speaking at Security & Policing 2026, the UK Government’s flagship national security event.

Read all about Prof. Emma Barrett's experience of attending the UnitedXR Europe conference in December 2025, and her thoughts on Meta's vision for the convergence of AI + Augmented reality.

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