The Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement Network Plus, SPRITE+, invites applications from PhD students to participate in the Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership’s Summer Program 2024, which will take place on 10 – 21 June, 2024 at the Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa, Canada. Up to 3 grants covering registration, travel and accommodation will be awarded.
The HC2P’s 2024 summer program will focus on human aspects of cybersecurity from the following three perspectives:
- Society and Human Centric Cybersecurity
- Regulation and Human Centric Cybersecurity
- Behaviour and Human Centric Cybersecurity
The program combines directed learning, practical experiences and hands on research that will not only provide you with real world skills and contacts but also authorship of a published report on cybersecurity. For reference, last year’s edition yielded a report “Decrypting Ransomware” which examined the phenomena of ransomware in Canada in terms of the issues and potential solutions through societal, regulatory and behavioural lenses. More details are available here.
Successful applicants will be students currently enrolled in a PhD programme at a UK University. To be considered, please send your application (in PDF format) to adminspritehub.org, with the subject line ‘Summer Program Application’ by the closing date of 22 April, 2024 containing the following information in no more than two A4 pages.
- Name and affiliation
- Brief CV
- Your motivations to apply for participation in the program
- Expected benefits from participation
- Confirmation that your supervisor is aware of your application and will be happy for you to attend
Before applying, please read the further information about the call.
The Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership (HC2P) leverages a transdisciplinary group of more than forty scholars from across Canada and thirty government, industry, and not-for-profit partners to generate research and mobilise knowledge that will help create a safer, more secure, more democratic, and more inclusive digital society.
Important dates
- Submission deadline: 22 April, 2024.
- Outcomes communicated: by 3 May, 2024.
Program
- Week of 3 June: online preparation meeting
- 10 June: Arrival in Montréal 17 – 21 June: Ottawa portion
- 11 – 15 June: Montréal portion 21 June: Program conclusion
- 16 June: Travel to Ottawa