We are looking for a PhD researcher to conduct ethnographic research on the security needs and practices of participants in large-scale urban protests. The studentship is funded by Royal Holloway University of London as part of our EPSRC-funded Social Foundations of Cryptography project. The link to the ad can be found here.
Grounded in ethnography, this PhD project sets out to understand how information security is understood, practised, negotiated and shaped by protesters. Through extended fieldwork in a particular non-UK setting (to be decided together with the candidate), it will explore the mundane, social, temporal, spatial, cultural, political notions that underpin large-scale protests and related information security practices as well as the technologies protesters rely upon. Moreover, it will study how technologies facilitate collective action and engage with participants through on-the-ground observation and engagements, during protests and related activities.