Role
Teaching Responsibilities
Lecturer delivering the following modules for both undergraduate and postgraduate students:
Advanced Windows Programming - SOFT 332
E-Commerce and Business - ISAD 345
Application Design and Development - ISAD 502
Distributed Web Applications - ISAD 504
Advanced Web Technologies - ISAD 334
IT Project Management - COMP 206
Business Systems Mini-Project - COMP 207
E-Commerce - COMP 201
Web Development Platforms - COMP 216
Ad hoc delivery of Internet safety workshops as required.
Qualifications & background
Chartered IT Professional, BCS
Ph.D. 2008. "Risk reduction through technological control of personal information"
BSc (Hons) Computing and Informatics - 1st Class, 2003.
Certificate of Professional Development, Learning, Teaching and Assessment: Theory and Practice. GTA Course, University of Plymouth, 2006
Employed by NHS Connecting for Health as Data and Business Analyst working in the NSTS Service Management team with a responsibility for Data Quality. 2003/2004 and 2006/2007.
Employed by K2 Medical Systems as software developer working on Maternity Health systems, 2002 and 2007.
Professional membership
Member of Plymouth Safe-Guarding Children's Board Esafety & Cyber Abuse Working Group
Member of British Computer Society and Committee member of South West Branch.
Member of Institute of Analysts and Programmers
Research interests
Involved in e-safety for young people with a special focus on peer education.
Trained to deliver CEOP thinkuknow resources.
Protecting individuals online
Privacy within all forms of internet mediated communications
Impact of technology on Domestic Abuse Survivors and Teenagers
Involved in introducing girls to computing and debunking some of the stereotypes surrounding the IT industry
UoP Research group membership
Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research (CSCAN)
Other research
Dissemination of research to general public through connections with:
Womens Aid Federation, http://www.womensaid.org.uk/, and
Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre, http://www.ceop.gov.uk/.
Publications
Sanders B, Chen V, Zahra D, Dowland PS, Atkinson S, Papadaki M, Furnell SM, (2010) Online Addiction: Privacy Risks in Online Gaming Environments, Proceedings
of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital
EcoSystems (MEDES), October 26-29, Bangkok, Thailand, 2010
Atkinson S, Furnell SM, Phippen AD, (2009) Securing the next generation: enhancing e-safety awareness among young people, Computer Fraud & Security, Volume 2009, Issue 7, pp13-19 , 2009
Atkinson, S, Furnell, S, Phippen, AD, (2009), Using Peer-education to encourage safe online behaviour, June 2009, LSE Eu Kids Online, http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/EUKidsOnline/Conference%20papers.htm
Atkinson, S, Furnell, S., Phippen, AD, (2009), E-Safety and E-Security: Raising security awareness among young people using peer education. 8th Annual Security Conference, Vegas
Atkinson S., Johnson., C., Phippen, AD, (2007), Improving protection mechanisms by understanding online risk, Information Management and Computer Security, 2007, vol. 15, vol. 5
Wood, R.,
Atkinson, S., Johnson, C., Phippen, A. (2007) Mobile phones and schools;
the development of a taxonomy of risk, In Proceedings of World
Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher
Education, Canada
Atkinson, S. (2007), Technology and the risk to personal safety, Safe: The Domestic Abuse Quarterly, Issue 22, Summer 2007
Atkinson S, Johnson C, Phippen AD, (2007), Limiting Risks To Personal Privacy Using The Semantic Web, In Proceedings of the Third Collaborative Research Symposium on Security, E-Learning, Internet and Networking.
Atkinson S, Johnson C, Phippen AD, (2007), Personal Privacy Threats: A
Taxonomy for Risk Assessment. In Proceedings of Second International
Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (accepted and to
be published in September).
Atkinson S, Johnson C, Phippen AD, (2007), Vulnerable Groups and the
Impact of Technology Upon Personal Privacy. In Proceedings of Human
Aspects of Information Security and Assurance.
Atkinson S, Johnson C, Phippen AD, (2007), Protecting Society using the Semantic Web, Invited poster presentation to the House of Commons Reception for Early Stage Researchers, www.setforeurope.org.
Atkinson S, Jagodzinski P, Johnson C, Phippen AD, (2006), Semantic Web:
A Personal Privacy Perspective, Proceedings of The Internet Society II:
Advances in Education, Commerce, & Governance conference, (Ed)
Morgan, K., Brebbia, C.A, and Spector, J.M. WIT Press, Southampton, 2006
Atkinson S, Jagodzinski P, Johnson C, Phippen AD, (2006), Personal
Privacy: Exploitation or Control through Technology, Proceedings of the
Sixth International Network Conference (INC2006), Plymouth, UK, 11-14
July, pp269-276, 2006
Atkinson, S. (2006), Internet Technology - how safe is it?, Safe: The Domestic Abuse Quarterly, Issue 16, Winter 2006
Reports & invited lectures
Invited speaker for Insafe training seminar in Latvia, Feburary 2009
Quoted in the Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/resource/jan-panic
E-Safety Ambassadors - the Interim report - download from www.cisnr.org/esasite -> About the project
Internet Safety Awareness Day, University of Plymouth, 16th January 2008. http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=21593
ICT and Domestic Abuse: A National Perspective. Invited presentation to Stafford County Council, Transnational Conference for IT in conjunction with Stafford Women's Aid. 20th June 2007.
Personal Privacy: I've got nothing to hide! Invited presentation to BCS South West branch, March 2007, www.bcs-southwest.org.uk/presentations.asp
Young People and Modern Technologies: Focusing on the Positives. Invited talk to Trust for the Study of Adolescence, 19 October 2006, Manchester
Uses and Abuses of Technology. Workshops run at the Women's Aid National Conference, Leicester, July 2006.
Other academic activities
Collaboration with Kingston University in researching the role of Mobile Telephones in relation to young people, teacher training and privacy.
Contribtor to Trustguide, www.trustguide.org.uk at DTI funded project by BT/HP.
Additional information
Very active member of the National Cooperative Children's charity, The Woodcraft Folk, www.woodcraft.org.uk. Responsible for managing a weekly group night involving 6 adult volunteers, and 25 young people of varying ages between 6 and 16. Leader activities also include organising camps, hikes and residential stays at hostels. Have regular responsibility for coodinating food for numbers of up to 170 people.
Currently Chair of regional Woodcraft Folk committee and have held recent responsibility for coordinating training throughout the South West region; recruitment and line management of regional workers. Also a member of the IT working group with a brief to update and maintain the IT infrastructure of the central part of the organisation.
Links
Centre for Security, Communciations and NetworkResearch
