Research centre of excellence in protecting citizens online
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:57:22 GMT
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research, in partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, on behalf of UK Research and Innovation, invites letters of intent for their research centre of excellence in protecting citizens online. This enables the establishment of a research centre of excellence which will explore holistic approaches to the development of privacy-enhancing technologies and the implications of their use in addressing the issue of protecting citizens online.
The centre should carry out research and technology development and enable the coordination of harm reduction. This research should span social, scientific and ethical perspectives, and investigate relevant and cross-cutting elements of privacy, trust, fairness, transparency and robustness. Research could also include relevant exploration of individual and collective behaviours leading to online harms, as well as issues around autonomy, data ownership, influence and control and use of online technologies.
Applications must be made by consortia with the investigatory team comprised of a mix of relevant disciplines, and must be balanced across technical and social science. There should be substantive institutional support from all organisations involved, demonstrating how the Centre would be supported as a national centre, and what facilities will be made available.
The total budget is worth £6.89 million at 80 per cent full economic costs to fund one centre over three years.
Closing date 27 Feb 20
