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Sandpit 5: Resilience and TIPSS

In June 2025 SPRITE+ hosted its fifth sandpit focused on 'Resilience and TIPSS', in conjunction with SALIENT (Building a Secure And Resilient World: Research and Coordination Hub).

Resilience refers to the capacity to adapt and recover from challenges. The UKRI Building a Secure and Resilient World (BSRW) initiative is taking a systemic approach that is human-centred, aimed at strengthening societal and economic resilience, and enhancing security across virtual and physical environments, by improving awareness of risks and threats, preparedness, informed decision-making and response. It will work towards change being understood as a force for good. All these conceptualisations of resilience intersect with holistic ideas about security but also TIPSS more broadly.

For example, in organisational contexts: Building trust; Identity assurance; Privacy protection, Security measures; Adaptability and continuous improvements.

Then at the individual level, resilience involves psychological robustness and the ability to cope with stress and adversity. Again, it easy to see how the elements of TIPSS—Trust, Identity, Privacy, Security and Safety significantly influence an individual’s personal resilience: Trust and psychological safety; Identity and self-concept; Privacy and autonomy; Security and stability.

Six projects were chosen covering a range of topics with all projects able to apply for onfunding from SALIENT in 2026.

BEYOND MISTAKES

The BEYOND MISTAKES (BM) project aims to develop and evaluate a framework for supporting people in custody to develop their skills and mindset to prepare for life after prison.

Building Societal Resilience Against Misinformation Among Vulnerable Groups

This project explores how migrants experience and recover from misinformation. Instead of focusing only on fact-checking, we ask: what helps people recognise, respond to, and recover from false or misleading messages?

EVERESTS: Empowering VulnErable populations’ RESilience in Trustworthy Safe Spaces

The EVERESTS project provides a solid foundation for building, testing, and evaluating multi-modal Digital Safety Companion platforms, deployable across home devices and public service channels.

Lex Lata 2075: Imagining the Future of Law and Legal Professionals

Lex Lata 2075 is a project that explores the future of the legal profession in light of technological advancements such as AI and GenAI. It emphasises the need for the legal profession to adapt to remain a resilient and trusted part of future governance.

Opening our eyes to the Panopticon

This project helps 18–21-year-olds spot the hidden risks of interacting with smart devices by putting them in the driver's seat of a digital story, where their choices expose the tradeoffs between convenience and control.

ResChain: Cognitive-Responsive Risk Communication and Representation for Resilient Energy Supply Chains

This project aims to explore tensions and better identify core risks and threats in the energy ecosystem, considering diverse views from the energy sector’s stakeholders.