Opportunities

Discover the latest SPRITE+ opportunities, including upcoming events, funding calls, and opportunities targeted at Expert Fellows and Early Career Researchers.

Current opportunities

Project Partner Challenge: Call for collaboration on analysing, building, and piloting resilience strategies to enhance online content moderation systems

We invite applications to co-develop a framework with Freedom2hear, focused on analysing, building, and piloting resilience strategies to enhance online content moderation systems.

Call for an Expert Fellow to lead a SPRITE+ Community of Interest

We are excited to invite applications from Expert Fellows to lead a SPRITE+ Community of Interest.

Academic Secondment Grant: Developing and evaluating safe, trustworthy, and privacy-preserving systems in decentralised community interactions

We invite applications from researchers with expertise in machine learning, data security, digital identity, human–computer interaction, responsible AI, or socio-technical systems to collaborate with Impromptu.

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Upcoming events

2 days to the event
26 Mar 2026, 17:00 – 27 Mar 2026, 17:00
XRCET-TIPSS Deep Dive - Community Mapping Day
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Central Manchester
Join us for our in-person community mapping day to scope and prioritise the most important XR convergences from trust, identity, privacy, safety, and security perspectives.
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22 days to the event
15 Apr 2026, 13:00 – 13:30
From “Oops” to “Ops”: Spotting Insider Risk Before it Becomes an Incident
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Online
SPRITE+ Lunch and Learn with Dr. Ismini Vasileiou
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28 days to the event
21 Apr 2026, 13:30 – 16:00
Immersive Technologies in Journalism: Risks, Trust and Ethical Challenges
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Online
A SPRITE+ and JournoTECH workshop examining how immersive technologies reshape journalism, trust, ethics and misinformation.
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44 days to the event
07 May 2026, 10:00 – 17:00
SPRITE+ 2026 AIM Day: XR-TIPSS
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etc.venues Chancery Lane, London
Join us at etc.venues in London for our annual AIM (Academic-Industry Meeting) Day to explore how emerging Extended and Virtual Reality technologies intersect with Trust, Identity, Privacy, Safety, and Security.
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56 days to the event
19 May 2026, 10:00 – 16:00
Early Careers Professional AI Ethics Event
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Online
This SPRITE+ funded event introduces the ECR Network and the AI Ethics Project by FRACTAI, bringing together like-minded individuals passionate about responsible innovation.
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71 days to the event
03 Jun 2026, 12:30 – 01 Jul 2026, 16:30
SPRITE+ | CRANE 2026 Sandpit: AI and TIPSS
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Online | In-person in Oxford
SPRITE+ and CRANE are pleased to invite Members and Expert Fellows to apply to attend a blended sandpit on AI and TIPSS. Up to a total of £224k of combined SPRITE+ and CRANE funding will be made available to fund up to four interdisciplinary projects arising from this sandpit.
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