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The Personal Data and Trust Network

Thu 4, Jun 2015

Launched in 2007, Google Map’s Street View feature has provided a wonderful resource for house hunters, restaurant goers, lost office workers and even Loch Ness monster enthusiasts.

Crossing the Valley of Death: Delivering Innovative Solutions to Security Needs

Tue 12, May 2015

Two reports have recently addressed the challenge of harnessing R&D to deliver innovative solutions to defence and security needs.

Academics come to ‘Anytown’: building behavioural factors into an infrastructure failure simulation.

Tue 5, May 2015

In the event of a failure on part of the critical infrastructure (electricity, water, gas and telecommunications for example) very little is known concerning how the general public might react.

‘Bridging the Gap’: Taking academic and practitioner partnership to the next level

Mon 27, Apr 2015

The interface between academia and practice in conflict and disaster research has become quite the hot topic in recent years, particularly in relation to how academics and practitioners can work together more productively.

Reflections on: Art and Conflict

Fri 17, Apr 2015

Conflict represents one intractable problem that policy-makers have to tackle. This session explored the complex role that art plays in relation to conflict, suggesting that images loaded with aesthetic and symbolic freight carry a force to be reckoned with here. Contributions came from a panel of artists, art historians and curators.

The Partnership and the Arts

Mon 13, Apr 2015

The Art of Integration - Islam in our Green and Pleasant Land is the title given to an exciting exhibition that opens at the Centre for the Study of Pakistan at SOAS next week.

Centre for Secure Information Technologies – A Future Legacy

Mon 30, Mar 2015

The dust has almost settled on the 5th World Cyber Security Summit at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). This year’s summit attracted people from around the world to Belfast and the Northern Ireland Science Park (NISP), including senior representatives from industry, government and academia.

Religion and Conflict: Data is Part of the Answer

Tue 17, Mar 2015

Expert analysis requires accessible, accurate, timely and globally comparable data. It is an essential underpinning for a greater understanding of key trends.

A new learning hub for experts working on peace, conflict and faith

Tue 24, Feb 2015

In a world of growing conflict, the role and impact of local faith communities, their leaders and other faith groups/organisations has come increasingly into focus.

Research shows French solidarity faces testing times

Wed 11, Feb 2015

On the streets of France there was strong public response to the murders of 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. But we do not yet know the medium to long-term consequences the attack will have on the nation’s public mood.