Professor Pamela Briggs

Professor

Department: Psychology

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I hold a Chair in Applied Psychology at Northumbria University 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

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A Model of Trust in Online COVID-19 Information and Advice: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study, Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D., Moss, M., Briggs, P. 13 Feb 2025, In: JMIR Infodemiology
Cyberinsurance adoption strategies and security of online behaviour: an experimental study, Gómez, Y., Branley-Bell, D., Briggs, P., Vila, J. 23 Feb 2025, In: Behaviour and Information Technology
Human and digital ecosystems in the modern household, Briggs, P., Nicholson, J., Lukins, R. 6 Jan 2025, In: Frontiers in Psychology
Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation, Divon, T., Are, C., Briggs, P. 16 Jan 2025, In: Platforms & Society
Using Anonymous Discussion Platforms to Support Open Conversations about Cybersecurity in Organisations, Jenkins, E., Abdulgalimov, D., Briggs, P., Olivier, P., Nicholson, J. 16 Jan 2025, CHI 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, USA, ACM
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. 9 Apr 2024
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
Social media affordances of LGBTQIA+ expression and community formation, Are, C., Talbot, C., Briggs, P. 31 Oct 2024, In: Convergence

Professional Activity

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