Workshop Support Fund

Workshop Support Fund

Introduction

We are aiming to support the organisation/delivery of workshops and events associated with the Digital Security by Design Programme.

If you are hosting an event, and are in need of financial support, please complete the form below.

About us

The ESRC Discribe Hub+ (Digital Security by Design Social Science Hub+) is an ESRC-funded initiative that forms part of the wider Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Programme.

The DSbD Programme, supported by the UK Government, aims to radically update the global economy's digital infrastructure, making it secure against future threats. The DSbD challenge has up to £70 million to invest in technology platforms and support for software development and business-led demonstrators. The funding is matched by £117 million from industry. The Discribe Hub+ is one part of this wider initiative, with funding in place until 2024. 

Discribe was established in September 2020 with funding from the ESRC, and is a consortium of four academic institutions: the Universities of Bath, Bristol and Cardiff, and Royal Holloway, University of London comprising researchers from the social sciences, economics, business and management, computer science and arts and humanities.

The core mission of the Discribe Hub+ is to support the wider DSbD challenge by applying social and economic science to questions around

  • the adoption of new secure technologies,

  • the readiness of different sectors and roles to adopt new secure hardware,

  • the regulatory and policy environment and how that might influence the adoption of DSbD technologies, and

  • what social and cultural factors might influence the success of the wider DSbD ecosystem.

We also support an extensive research programme using methodologies from arts and humanities to explore the future implications of new secure digital technologies.

Proposal assessment criteria

Proposals will be assessed against the following criteria:

Objectives: What is the purpose of your event, and how does this fit with the Discribe/DSbD objectives?

Output: How does this bring added value to the Discribe/DSbD programme?

How to apply

Please complete our application form and email to discribehub@bath.ac.uk with subject title “Workshop Support Fund”.

Learn more about our other Opportunities here