Our next round of Commissioned research projects are now confirmed
We are very pleased to announce, following a competitive process, the following projects have successfully been awarded funding from the second Discribe Hub+ Strategic Funding call.
Assessing Organisational DSbD Awareness and Readiness (University of Nottingham and QMUL)
Secure Hardware Adoption in the Open Data Context (University of Leicester and UEA)
‘Digital Sovereignty by Design’- Exploring the Impact of European Union’s Digital Sovereignty approach on the UK’s digital technology landscape (Universities of Newcaster and Northumbria)
The impact of cyber security on the adoption of new digital technologies in UK’s SMEs (Universities of Essex, Warwick and Maastricht)
The Elicitation of Cybersecurity Narratives: Bricoleur Story Completion, Decision Making & Security Design (University of London, Birkbeck College and University of Sheffield)
This represents an investment in social science research to support digital security by design of over £820,000.
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 (http://dsbd.tech). The Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Programme, supported by the UK Government, aims to radically update the digital infrastructure currently underpinning the global economy, making it secure against future threats. The Discribe Hub+ is one part of this wider initiative, with funding in place until 2024.
The Hub+ is led by the University of Bath, and brings together social and computer scientists alongside arts and humanities to work together to overcome the barriers that often hamper technological solution from being adopted at scale.
The Hub+ second commissioning call was for substantive research projects around four key topic areas
Economics and Decision Making in Security
Software Developers and DSbD
Regulation, Standards and Innovation
Qualitatively analysing barriers in adopting early DSbD technologies
Hub+ Director, Professor Adam Joinson, said, “We are excited to support these new projects to support the work of the digital security by design challenge. Social science has a key role to play in helping us to build a more secure digital future - in understanding how we can communicate about threats and possible solutions, in helping decision makers to make the right choices when it comes to digital security, and in analysing and preparing responses to changes in the regulatory landscape.
The projects funded under our latest call are all excellent examples of the collaboration across disciplines needed to address ‘grand challenges’ in cyber security - something we will need if we are to build a trusted secure future.”
DSbD Challenge Director, John Goodacre, said “Pleased to see the DSbD Discribe Hub+ expanding the DSbD network with a multidisciplinary view drawing on skilled researchers to address questions around the deployment and meaning of security technologies across society.
I look forward to these projects along with the growing DSbD ecosystem to help us all in creating a safer, more secure digital world.”
You can learn more about the funded projects here.
We are excited to support these research projects, and look forward to their findings feeding into our Core Research as well as the wider Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Programme.
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