We are recruiting!

We have an exciting new role for a research associate in the Institute, who will support academics from our multiple disciplines in designing and conducting research studies that contribute towards our understanding of digital security and behaviour.

This is a great opportunity for a researcher to work with distinguished scholars throughout our academic community at Bath and to develop skills in a variety of disciplines:

https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=KW11713R

Closing date is 1 October 2024.

New award: Laura Smith's project on Influence, Manipulation and Information Threats as Adversarial Techniques: Events, Evolution and Effects (IMITATE3) is MINERVAs first funded project

Laura Smith is collaborating with colleagues at Princeton University and Cardiff University on the first project funded under US-UK Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) social science programme. IMITATE3 will lead to a fundamental change in our understanding of the construction, communication and consequences of foreign influence operations, and their capacity to induce political, cultural, and socio-economic instability and uncertainty..

The UK research team will receive up to £2.87 million from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

In the news: Liv Brown's research on using social media posts to identify potential terrorists

Liv Brown’s research on identifying far-right terrorists from social media posts features widely in the media, see Financial Times. Liv will meet with the University's incoming Head of Public Affairs next week to discuss promoting her research to policy makers. Read the press release here

Lecture: ‘Progress, Peril and Polarisation: Mechanisms of Mobilisation in the Digital Age’

Institute Director Professor Laura Smith delivers her inaugural lecture ‘Progress, Peril and Polarisation: Mechanisms of Mobilisation in the Digital Age’ to a packed audience on the 12th June 2024. Watch the recording here

AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI)

New project: Laura Smith is theme lead for Human Centred Design for a successful consortium bid, led by Bristol, for an UKRI AI hub, AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI). The human-centred design work stream is cross-cutting and leverages the expertise of the Institute. This is an £11m investment with nearly 30 government and industry stakeholders, so is strategically valuable and will bring significant opportunities to Bath

Award winning Institute researchers and PhD students

Huge congratulations to Institute members Danae, Laura, Aurelien, Brit and Alicia, and PhD students Dessi and Rob, who received Doctoral Recognition Awards this year for contributions to doctoral research. More...

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