New UKRI-Funded Project to examine academic awareness of 天美影视 Security Risks
MIOIR researchers have secured funding for a new project exploring how UK academics understand and respond to research security risks in international collaboration.
Building resilience in international research collaboration: academic awareness and behaviour change
Andrew James (PI), Cornelia Lawson (Co-I) and Xiuqin Li (ECR) have won a grant to study academic awareness of the issue of research security in UK universities. The funding is under the UKRI funded programme Building a Secure and Resilient World (SALIENT).
The project begins from the observation that geopolitics and concerns about knowledge leakage, intellectual property theft and foreign interference in academic research, along with increased research security measures, are reshaping international research collaboration with potentially substantial implications for the UK science base and the conduct of science by individual researchers.
A critical yet underexplored issue is the awareness of academics regarding research security and how they perceive and respond to potential risks.
The seven-month study, which is supported by Universities UK International, will address this gap by examining UK academics' awareness and responses to research security risks. We will integrate bibliometric analysis, to identify UK academics who are engaged in international research collaboration, with large-scale survey and interview methods to assess those academics鈥� awareness of research security issues and whether geopolitics and new research security measures are changing the nature of their international collaborations.