Research projects

SPRITE+ works with a diverse set of academic and non-academic stakeholders to build and strengthen the digital TIPS community and identify requirements and promising new directions for research in this area. We have a ‘pump-priming’ budget to fund activities that explore and test new ideas, and that create new collaborations between academic disciplines, and between academic and non-academic partners. These activities seek to explore the SPRITE+ Challenge Themes via Challenge Working Groups (CWGs) and short projects.

Short Projects

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Dictionary of Privacy

SPRITE+ is supporting production of a Dictionary of Privacy, co-authored by SPRITE+ Expert Fellows Coordinator (and incoming Director) Professor Mark Elliot, and SPRITE+ Expert Fellows / Members Dr Kieron O’Hara, Dr Anna Mandalari, and Miranda Mourby.

Sandpit 2: Digital Vulnerabilities

In July 2021, SPRITE+ hosted its second virtual sandpit focused on 'digital vulnerabilities', which is one of our four challenge themes. Over the course of 5 sessions, spread over 3 weeks, participants formed teams and created projects, which explore digital vulnerabilities from multi-disciplinary and stakeholder perspectives.

FiVu: Using Design Fiction to Identify Future Vulnerabilities in Bio-IOT

Led by Dr Charles Weir (Lancaster University), Dr José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón (Royal Holloway University of London), Professor Lynne Coventry (Northumbria University) and Dr Soteris Demetriou (Imperial College London).

Revealing Young Learners’ Mental Models of Online Sludge

Led by Dr Karen Renaud (University of Strathclyde), Dr Bryan Clift (University of Bath), Dr Ben Morrison (Northumbria University), Dr Kovila Coopamootoo (Newcastle University), Dr Cigdem Sengul (Brunel University), Dr Mark Springett (Middlesex University), and Dr Jacqui Taylor (Bournemouth University).

Footprints to emissions: Exploring near-future digital vulnerabilities with creative methodologies

Led by Dr David Ellis (University of Bath), Dr Iain Reid (University of Portsmouth), Dr Philip Wu (Royal Holloway University of London) and Dr Asad Ali (Ofcom).

Buy Now Pay Later in the UK: Current and emergent digital vulnerabilities

Led by Dr Lindsey Appleyard (Coventry University), Dr Jo Briggs (Northumbria University), Dr Lucia Cervi (Lancaster University), Dr Deepak Padmanabhan (Queen's University Belfast), Dr Gauri Sinha (Royal Holloway University of London) and Dr Tahir Abbas Syed (University of Manchester).

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First RespondXR: Digital vulnerability of immersive training for first responders

Led by Dr Leonie Tanczer (University College London), Professor David McIlhatton (Coventry University), Professor Jill Marshall (Royal Holloway University of London), Dr Mark McGill (University of Glasgow) and Dr Lena Podoletz (University of Edinburgh).