Call for applications: Academic Legal and Regulatory Challenge Fellow (Discribe Hub+)
We are currently welcoming applications for the position of a Discribe Challenge Fellow: Academic Legal and Regulatory Challenge Fellow
Background:
The Digital Security by Design Social Science (Discribe) Hub+ provides social science support to the UK’s Digital Security by Design (DSbD) programme.
DSbD aims to transform digital infrastructure by implementing technologies such as CHERI at the core of the infrastructure. CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) takes a novel approach to systems security that re-examines and re-designs fundamental concepts and building blocks of hardware and software systems with a strong focus on security and enabling development of secure systems.
The role of Discribe’s Legal and Regulatory Work Package is to develop legal and regulatory strategies to support CHERI adoption.
Discribe has a number of external experts that fulfil a Challenge Fellow role that help us with subject matter expertise and to respond to some of the harder challenges in the Discribe portfolio. Some of our challenge fellows come from practice or industry to help us with our applied and implementation focused challenges. Some of our challenge fellows come from academia and work with us to help us set the academic foundations for our conceptually focused challenges.
Requirement:
We are currently recruiting an academic Challenge Fellow with a relevant background in legal and regulatory scholarship to work alongside the Discribe team to identify the legal and regulatory intervention strategies needed to support possible future uses of CHERI. We are particularly interested in exploring the implications of unfolding cyber resilience governance frameworks involving law, regulation, and standards.
Provide legal and regulatory input during the construction of 3 CHERI technology prototype case studies. Case studies are likely include:
Sites where digital regulation is being actively debated, including smart cities/connected places and IoT critical national infrastructure (such as healthcare, utilities management etc.)
Products where security is already in place including mobile phones, routers etc.
Sites for technologies of the future. For example, the creative industries are undergoing digital transformation in areas such as post-production.
Provide advice and guidance on the relevant areas of law, regulation, and governance pertinent to the CHERI case studies, especially cyber resilience requirements including data protection, cybersecurity, intellectual property.
Support Discribe researchers to interview key policy stakeholders from government, industry, and civil society to identify likely modes of current market imperatives and perceived legal/regulatory challenges, with a focus on understanding CHERI in relation to cyber resilience governance.
Contribute to the formulation and conceptualisation of the legal and regulatory challenges likely to emerge from the CHERI prototype case studies.
Collaborate with the Discribe team to outline appropriate legal and regulatory intervention strategies to support CHERI adoption in the 3 case studies.
Funding:
We will award £16,000 for this work to the post-holder or their employer / institution to support this work. This will be paid quarterly on receipt of deliverables / successful completion of tasks.
Term:
12 months. We expect the contribution of fellows to take the form of circa 2 meetings per month, review of Discribe outputs, and input to proposed Discribe legal and regulatory initiatives. The schedule of tasks will be reviewed quarterly.
How to apply:
Please send us your CV with a two-page statement detailing how you would plan to meet the requirement (as outlined above), alongside a suggested timetable for key tasks and deliverables to discribehub@bath.ac.uk
Closing date for applications:
5pm - Friday 25th November 2022