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Sydney - Macquarie University</b></div>
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<div>We are looking for two motivated <span>PhD</span> students
for a research project funded by the Australian Research Council
on “Cybersecurity ethics training simulations using values-based
design" in the <a
href="https://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-science-and-engineering/departments-and-centres/department-of-computing"
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Macquarie University in Sydney.<br>
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<p>This 3-year Project aims to investigate ways to train
reflective ethical decision making in cybersecurity
professionals through the design of interactive social
simulations.</p>
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<p>The Project will advance understanding and management of
human factors in cybersecurity breaches and the field of
serious game design for cybersecurity training by using new
techniques for building artificially intelligent virtual
agents, drawing on interdisciplinary expertise in ethics,
artificial intelligence and serious game design.</p>
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<p>Expected outcomes of the Project include new frameworks and
technologies for cybersecurity training that take into account
organisational norms and policies and the values of
individuals that influence day-to-day decision-making in the
context of ethical dilemmas relating to cybersecurity.</p>
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<p>The PhD scholar would work with the supervisory team to
identify a specific topic aligned with one or more areas of
research focus in this project, such as modelling and
evaluating ethical behaviour, design of interaction modality
in serious games, agent-societies for modelling cybersecurity
policy and risk management, and intelligent agents for
reflection-based training and education.</p>
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<p>Applicants with a background in computer science, artificial
intelligence, games design, philosophy or related research
areas are encouraged to apply. Prior expertise with game
development, computer programming and artificial intelligence
are considered a plus. The candidate must be available to
enrol and commence studies no later than 27th November 2020.</p>
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<p>This grant involves multidisciplinary collaboration of
researchers from the Departments of Computing and Philosophy
at Macquarie University and Umea University in Sweden.</p>
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<p>Project team members are affiliated with the Cybersecurity
Hub; Virtual Reality and Interactive System group; Macquarie
University Serious Games Research Network; Centre for Agency,
Values, and Ethics (CAVE) and WASP-HS the Swedish research
program on AI humanities and society (<a
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href="http://www.wasp-hs.org" moz-do-not-send="true">www.wasp-hs.org</a>).
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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scholarship and how to apply can be found at:</div>
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font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <a
href="https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/scholarship-search/data/cybersecurity-ethics-training-simulations-using-values-based-design"
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