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Salary: £31,406 – £50,296 per annum
Closing Date: 8 April 2022
The Role
Newcastle University and Durham University seek to appoint a total of 9 researchers for the EPSRC funded project ‘AGENCY: Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms’. We invite applications of candidates from a variety of discipline to become part of an exciting, multidisciplinary research project incorporating scholars from Computing (including AI, HCI and Cyber Security), Sociology, Ethics, Business and Law. The team’s research aims to protect citizens and society from online harms such as hate speech, misinformation, issues around self-image, and domestic violence during a pandemic. Specifically, AGENCY researches how to provide end-users with control (‘agency’) over their online experiences. The team will design new citizen-centred technologies, influence policy and contribute to new ethical frameworks. Please visit http://agencyresearch.net for more information on all available posts.
This specific post considers cyber security and privacy.
Closing Date: 8 April 2022
