[Air-L] post-doc at University of Lancaster

[Seda Gurses]

And, here is an announcement for a post-doc in Lancaster.
Cheers,
Seda



PostDoc RA for RePriCo

We are seeking to appoint a postdoc research associate to work on the RePriCo project (Resolving Multi-party Privacy Conflicts in Social Media) funded by the EPSRC.

Hundreds of billions of items that are uploaded to Social Media are co-owned by multiple users, yet only the user that uploads the item is allowed to set its privacy settings (i.e., who can access the item). This is a massive and serious problem as users' privacy preferences for co-owned items usually conflict, so applying the preferences of only one party leads to privacy violations with severe consequences (e.g., users losing their jobs, being cyberstalked, etc.). Users are forced to try to resolve such conflicts manually (by e-mail, phone calls, etc.), which is exhausting because social networks are very dynamic and huge in scale. Even more importantly, the process of resolving conflicts manually starts too late, when one user has already posted the item and the privacy violation has occurred.

RePriCo's main challenge is to understand how users reach agreements to solve multi-party privacy conflicts, uncovering what is actually acceptable for users under which situations and the factors that contribute to that. In particular, RePriCo aims to create a strong empirical base to inform the design of automated conflict resolution mechanisms in such a way that users accept the solutions proposed automatically most of the time and they do not need to resolve the conflicts manually. This empirical base will not only influence the development of automated conflict detection and resolution mechanisms but also help push research on the topic forward.

In this project you will work together with Dr Jose M Such (Principal Investigator), and with industrial and academic collaborators (Dr Soren Preibusch, Google; and Prof Adam Joinson, UWE).

You will join Lancaster University (top 10 UK university) and its Security Lancaster Research Centre – one of the very few UK’s Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, with a thriving multi-disciplinary community of 70 researchers tackling current and future challenges to the protection of individuals, organisations, infrastructures and society-at-large. The Centre and the School of Computing and Communications (where you will be based) both offer a highly inclusive and stimulating environment for research career development. There is a strong expectation that you will actively contribute to the strong profile of the Centre and its multi-disciplinary ethos through participation in the development and publication of research results.

Closing Date:   Friday 21 August 2015

For more information and application details, please visit http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A1292