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Bringing together people in research, practice, and policy with a focus on digital contexts. We are the go-to point of contact to engage with the broadest UK network of interdisciplinary, cross-sector digital Trust, Identity, Privacy, Security experts.
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📢 Applications are now open for our 2026 AIM (Academic-Industry Meeting) Day!

Join us to explore how emerging Extended and Virtual Reality technologies intersect with Trust, Identity, Privacy, Safety, and Security (XR-TIPSS) 🤳

🔗Apply here: www.spritehub.org/aim-day-2026

#AIMDay
2026 AIM Day | SPRITE+ Hub
Applications are now open to attend our 2026 AIM Day in London! This is your opportunity to shape the next wave of secure and trusted immersive technologies, find academic partners to solve your R&D…
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🖥️ SPRITE+ Lunch and Learn is back for 2026! We're excited to welcome experts to speak on a variety of Digital TIPSS topics. Upcoming talks include:

🎙️ What is Self-Sovereign Identity? buff.ly/mZLcCrs

🎙️ Quantum Computing Demystified: buff.ly/Rp2WhTN

#LunchAndLearn #DigitalTIPS
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM
📢 Call for Projects - RISE: Addressing Violence Against Woman and Girls

Together with @salient-hub.bsky.social and NSEC, we're offering grant funding for short projects running between April and August 2026.

🖥️ Join us on Friday for an informative webinar: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982661329...
February 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
💡SPRITE+ funded sandpit project spotlight: Lex Lata 2075 - Imagining the Future of Law and Legal Professionals

This project explores the future of the legal profession in light of technological advancements such as AI and GenAI. ⚖️

🔗Learn more: www.spritehub.org/sandpit-5/le...

#ResearchProject
Lex Lata 2075: Imagining the Future of Law and Legal Professionals | SPRITE+ Hub
Lex Lata 2075 is a project that explores the future of the legal profession in light of technological advancements such as AI and GenAI. It emphasises the need for the legal profession to adapt to…
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February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
📢 Applications for our 2026 blended sandpit on AI and TIPSS will be closing later this month!

Up to a total of £224k of combined SPRITE+ and CRANE funding will be made available to fund up to four interdisciplinary projects arising from this sandpit 💰

🔗 Learn more and apply here: lnkd.in/eKCmhxtA
SPRITE+ | CRANE 2026 Sandpit: AI and TIPSS | SPRITE+ Hub
SPRITE+ and CRANE are pleased to invite Members and Expert Fellows to apply to attend a blended sandpit on AI and TIPSS. Up to a total of £224k of combined SPRITE+ and CRANE funding will be made…
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February 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM
🎙️ How does self-sovereign identity empower individuals to control their personal digital credentials?

Join us on Wednesday 18th February for our upcoming Lunch and Learn talk with Prof. Edgar Whitley.

🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sprite-lun...

#LunchAndLearn #DigitalIdentity
SPRITE+ Lunch and Learn with Prof. Edgar Whitley
How does self-sovereign identity empower individuals to control their personal digital credentials?
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February 5, 2026 at 11:33 AM
📢 Applications are now open for our 2026 AIM (Academic-Industry Meeting) Day!

Join us to explore how emerging Extended and Virtual Reality technologies intersect with Trust, Identity, Privacy, Safety, and Security (XR-TIPSS) 🤳

🔗Apply here: www.spritehub.org/aim-day-2026

#AIMDay
2026 AIM Day | SPRITE+ Hub
Applications are now open to attend our 2026 AIM Day in London! This is your opportunity to shape the next wave of secure and trusted immersive technologies, find academic partners to solve your R&D…
www.spritehub.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
A very happy birthday to our project partner @salient-hub.bsky.social! 🥳
February 3, 2026 at 2:28 PM
💡SPRITE+ funded sandpit project spotlight: EVERESTS (Empowering VulnErable populations’ RESilience in Trustworthy Safe Spaces)

This project provides a foundation for building, testing, and evaluating multi-modal Digital Safety Companion platforms🛡️

🔗Learn more: www.spritehub.org/sandpit-5/em...
EVERESTS: Empowering VulnErable populations’ RESilience in Trustworthy Safe Spaces | SPRITE+ Hub
The EVERESTS project provides a solid foundation for building, testing, and evaluating multi-modal Digital Safety Companion platforms, deployable across home devices and public service channels.
www.spritehub.org
February 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
📢 SPRITE+ and CRANE are pleased to announce our 2026 blended sandpit on AI and TIPSS!

Up to a total of £224k of combined SPRITE+ and CRANE funding will be made available to fund up to four interdisciplinary projects arising from this sandpit 💰

🔗 Apply here: www.spritehub.org/event-detail...
January 28, 2026 at 5:04 PM
🤖 Can decentralised identity help us build AI systems we can truly trust?

Investigators on this SPRITE+ funded project explored how decentralised systems can support more trustworthy, secure, and privacy-preserving AI agents.

🎥Learn more: youtu.be/oPtnTLTpLbI?...

@cheqd.bsky.social
Verifiable AI with Self-Sovereign Identity: a Socio-Technical Exploration
🤖 Can decentralised identity help us build AI systems we can truly trust? As AI agents become more embedded in our lives, we must rethink how we design these systems to respect data privacy. One…
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January 26, 2026 at 2:03 PM
🤖 Can decentralised identity help us build AI systems we can truly trust?

This innovation forum explored how decentralised systems can support more trustworthy, secure, and privacy-preserving AI agents.

📖 Read the project report:
www.spritehub.org/innovation-f...

#VerifiableAI #SSI
January 22, 2026 at 2:02 PM
💡SPRITE+ sandpit project spotlight: Building Societal Resilience Against Misinformation Among Vulnerable Groups

This project explores how migrants experience and recover from misinformation📲

🔗Learn more: www.spritehub.org/sandpit-5/bu...

#resilience #misinformation #VulnerableGroups
Building Societal Resilience Against Misinformation Among Vulnerable Groups | SPRITE+ Hub
This project explores how migrants experience and recover from misinformation. Instead of focusing only on fact-checking, we ask: what helps people recognise, respond to, and recover from false or…
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January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Join us for The Digital Environment Conference 2026!

Discover how systems that shape our planetary future are imagined, contested, built and live.

🔗 Tickets: bit.ly/DigitalEnvironmentConference2026

📅 1st April 2026
🕙 10.00am – 5.00pm
📍 SISTER, Renold Building, 32a Altrincham Street, Manchester
December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Introducing our first SPRITE+ funded Sandpit project: BEYOND MISTAKES⚖️

This project will contribute to social resilience, safety and security by empowering people with convictions to reduce re-offending and crime.

🔗Learn more: www.spritehub.org/sandpit-5/be...

#Resilience #TIPSS
BEYOND MISTAKES | SPRITE+ Hub
The BEYOND MISTAKES (BM) project aims to develop and evaluate a framework for supporting people in custody to develop their skills and mindset to prepare for life after prison.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:35 AM
SPRITE+ works with a diverse set of stakeholders to build and strengthen the digital TIPSS community.

Our ongoing projects include:
🔎 Funded Sandpit projects
⚙️ SPRITE+ run and funded Innovation Fora
🎓 Sponsored academic secondments

🔗 Learn more: www.spritehub.org/projects

#FundedResearch
Projects | SPRITE+ Hub
Learn all about our ongoing SPRITE+ funded projects and their outputs.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Realistic Data Collection for Cybersecurity Research 🔍

▶️ Learn more about this SPRITE+ funded secondment project from Principal Investigator Dr Çağatay Yücel: youtu.be/35aF6tW0cJU?...

🔗 Read the secondment project report:
www.spritehub.org/aim-day-seco...

#CyberSecurity #CTF #ThreatDetection
Design and Execution of Cybersecurity Exercises for Realistic Data Collection
This talk was presented at the SPRITE+ 2025 Showcase by Dr Çağatay Yücel, Principal Investigator of a SPRITE+ funded AIM (Academic-Industry Meeting) day secondment project with NVIDIA Belfast and…
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January 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
In September 2025, SPRITE+ and @n8prp.bsky.social held an AI and Policing Innovation Forum 🔎

🔗 You can now read the event report here: www.spritehub.org/innovation-f...

🔗 View the speaker slides here: www.spritehub.org/ai-and-polic...

#SPRITEplus #N8PRP #Policing #AI #InnovationForum #TIPS
AI and Policing: Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security | SPRITE+ Hub
This innovation forum brought together researchers working on Policing, and members of the N8 police forces, to discuss the emerging importance of AI in policing and the impacts that might have on…
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January 9, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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There's just over a month until our Digital Good Research Fund closes.

We're looking for individuals (or small teams) to produce blueprints around what a good digital society looks like. Each one will focus on an aspect of social life or societal institution.

digitalgood.net/call-for-app...
January 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM
📢 Upcoming event: 2-day Workshop on Responsibility and Accountability in Safety-Critical AI Applications

📆 12 – 13 Jan 2026
📍 University of Bath

🔗 Learn more & register here: www.spritehub.org/event-detail...

#AI #DigitalSafety #Accountability
2-day Workshop on Responsibility and Accountability in Safety-Critical AI Applications | SPRITE+ Hub
You are warmly invited to join Julian Padget and Andrew Peck for an interactive round-table discussion exploring risk, attribution and accountability in the use of AI.
www.spritehub.org
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
⚠️Job vacancy closing tomorrow: SPRITE+ Research Associate, XRCET-TIPSS

This is a great opportunity for a first or second postdoc position.

📆 Closing date: 06 January 2026
📍 Location: Manchester

➡️ Apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

#JobVacancy #ResearchAssociate #Hiring
Research Associate SPRITE +, XRCET TIPSS:Manchester
SPRITE+ Deep Dive: Extended Reality Convergence with other Emerging Technologies and the implications for Trust, Identity, Privacy, Safety, and Security (XRCET-TIPSS)
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January 5, 2026 at 11:07 AM
The SPRITE+ funded “Post-Quantum Signature Implementation using PUF” project aimed to strengthen device authentication against emerging quantum threats 📱

▶️ Learn more about this exciting secondment project:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Lh...

#CyberSecurity #PostQuantum
Post-Quantum Signature Implementation using PUF - Arnab Biswas
YouTube video by SPRITEplus
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January 5, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Introducing the six sandpit projects we will be funding, following our Sandpit on 'Resilience and TIPSS' in conjunction with @salient-hub.bsky.social! 🤝

🔗 Read more about each of these exciting research projects on our website: www.spritehub.org/introducing-...

#DigitalTIPSS #Resilience
December 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🎙️'From Sophistication to Coordination: Decoding the Next Generation of Social Bot Behaviour and Detection'

Last Wednesday, we were delighted to be joined by Dr. Rahat Masood for her SPRITE+ Lunch and Learn talk. Watch Dr. Masood's talk on YouTube: youtu.be/YH3RyTn5sL0?...

#SocialBots #DigitalTrust
Lunch + Learn with Dr Rahat Masood: Decoding the Next Generation of Social Bot Behaviour & Detection
Social bots have advanced into highly sophisticated actors within online ecosystems, shaping public discussion, spreading misinformation, and carrying out coordinated deceptive campaigns on an…
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December 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Applications for our research fund are open, focusing on aspects of social life or societal institutions (eg a family, a museum, a practice like health tracking) and how they contribute to a good digital society.

Deadline: 12 February. Max project duration: 6 months

digitalgood.net/blueprints-f...
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📢 Job vacancy: join SPRITE+ as a Research Associate to work on our XRCET TIPSS Deep Dive!

This is a great opportunity for a first or second postdoc position.

📅 Closing date: 06 January 2026
📍 Location: Manchester

Apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

#SPRITEplus #JobVacancy
Research Associate SPRITE +, XRCET TIPSS:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM