Professor Pamela Briggs

Professor

Department: Psychology

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I hold a Chair in Applied Psychology at ��ϲ�� and am a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. I am a Co-Director of the UK's Centre for Digital Citizens, a £9m collaboration between the Universities of Newcastle, Northumbria, Edinbugh and UCL. My work primarily addresses issues of identity, trust, privacy and security in new social media, with a particular focus on digital inequality. In the last five years, I’ve secured over £2m in research funding, have published over forty articles on digital behaviour and have worked with government and industry to generate social and business impact from this work. I’m one of the founder members of the UK's Research Institute in Sociotechnical Cybersecurity, funded by the National CyberSecurity Centre (NCSC) in association with UKRI's Global Uncertainty Programme and my most recent research awards address both usable and inclusive privacy and security. I have contributed to three UK Government Office for Science reports (The Future of Identity; Using Behavioural Insights to Improve the Public’s use of Cyber Security Best Practice and Responsible Use of Data). I have worked with the European Commission’s High Level Group of Scientific Advisors, contributing to a workshop on Secure Digital Identities as part of the EC’s Scientific Advice Mechanism (Vilnius) and was an invited contributer to a 2021 USAID/UKRI workshop 'Shaping the Future of Inclusive Digital Development'.

Key Publications

Adaptive Incentive Engineering in Citizen-Centric AI, Koohy, B., Buermann, J., Yazdanpanah, V., Briggs, P., Pschierer-Barnfather, P., Gerding, E., Stein, S. 6 May 2024, AAMAS '24: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, USA, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
A model of trust in online COVID-19 information and advice: cross sectional questionnaire study, Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D., Moss, M., Briggs, P. 21 Nov 2024, In: JMIR Infodemiology
Digital accumulation behaviours and information management in the workplace: exploring the tensions between digital data hoarding, organisational culture and policy, McKellar, K., Sillence, E., Neave, N., Briggs, P. 25 Apr 2024, In: Behaviour and Information Technology
Exploring Behavioural Strategies in Cyberinsurance Adoption, Gómez, Y., Branley-Bell, D., Briggs, P., Vila, J. 8 Oct 2024, Proceedings of European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2024 (ECCE 2024), New York, US, ACM
Platform Gaslighting: A User-Centric Insight into Social Media Corporate Communications of Content Moderation, Divon, T., Are, C., Briggs, P. 7 Nov 2024, In: Platforms & Society
Social media affordances of LGBTQIA+ expression and community formation, Are, C., Talbot, C., Briggs, P. 31 Oct 2024, In: Convergence
Using Breach and Attack Demonstrations to Explain Spear Phishing Attacks to Young Adults, Briddick, C., Briggs, P., Nicholson, J. 11 Jun 2024, Information Security Education - Challenges in the Digital Age (WISE 2024), Cham, Springer
Designing for the Embedding of Employee Voice, Abdulgalimov, D., Kirkham, R., Lindsay, S., Vlachokyriakos, V., Nicholson, J., Dao, E., Kos, D., Jitnah, D., Briggs, P., Olivier, P. 14 Apr 2023, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Development of a new ‘human cyber-resilience scale’, Joinson, A., Dixon, M., Coventry, L., Briggs, P. 19 Apr 2023, In: Journal of Cybersecurity
Life after lockdown: The experiences of older adults in a contactless digital world, Morrison, B., Nicholson, J., Wood, B., Briggs, P. 13 Jan 2023, In: Frontiers in Psychology

Professional Activity

Invited talk: World Association for Sport Management, Lithuania: Engaging Sport Students in Higher Education 2017

PGR Supervision

Thanyalak Boonlue Self-Compassion, Psychological Resilience and Social Media Use in Thai and British Higher Education Students Start Date: 01/11/2013 End Date: 24/08/2017
Ruth Crabtree Student Engagement within Higher Education: An Analysis of Staff and Student’s Opinions Beyond Academic Engagement Start Date: 01/10/2016 End Date: 18/11/2020
Amit Naik Information Security Governance: Differences in perceptions of Policymakers and Employees Start Date: 01/01/2015 End Date: 21/01/2022
Ruth Crabtree Student Engagement within Higher Education: An Analysis of Staff and Student’s Opinions Beyond Academic Engagement Start Date: 01/10/2016 End Date: 22/10/2020
Pirkko Tikka Reading on Small Displays: Reading Performance and Perceived Ease of Reading Start Date: 20/09/2007 End Date: 07/11/2013
Benjamin Morrison A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Cyber-Security Vulnerability in the Baby Boomer Population Start Date: 01/10/2017 End Date: 18/11/2020

Qualifications

Psychology PhD September 07 1983

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