Sara

Degli Esposti

EDUCATION

Oct/2010 – Jun/2016: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Open University Business School (Milton Keynes, UK). Title of the dissertation: “Big Data and Data Protection: An Empirical Investigation."

Oct/2006 – Sep/2008: Master in Business Economics and Quantitative Methods (MSc), Department of Business Administration (University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain).

Oct/1999 – Mar/2005: Bachelor Degree in Sociology (BA Hons.), Department of Sociology and Social Research (University of Trento, Trento, Italy).

PROJECTS

01/01/2020—30/04/2022: PI and Research Director of H2020 TRESCA - Trustworthy, Reliable and Engaging Scientific Communication Approaches (no. 872855). Co-PI: David Arroyo (ITEFI). CSIC budget: €253.218,75.

01/01/2019 – 31/12/2022: Research team member. “CYNAMON – Cybersecurity, Network Analysis and Monitoring for the Next Generation Internet”. Programas de Actividades de I+D entre grupos de investigación de la Comunidad de Madrid en tecnologías 2018 (P2018/TCS-4566; B.O.C.M. Núm. 304; 21 diciembre 2018). Partners: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; ‘Cryptography and Information Security Research Group’, Consejo Superiores de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

APPOINTMENTS

12/10/2018- 12/10/2020: Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Business in Society (CBiS), Coventry University, UK.

01/09/2018 – ongoing: Research Fellow, Institute of Public Policy & Goods (IPP), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Despacho 3D9, C/ Albasanz 26-28, 28037 Madrid (SPAIN).

01/09/2017-31/08/2018: Research Fellow. Centre for Business in Society, Faculty of Business and Law, Coventry University, JAG 16, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB, (UK). 

15/01/2017-31/08/2017:  Research Fellow. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 5, 08860 Castelldefels, Catalunya (Spain). Funded by H2020 CANDID – Checking Assumptions aND promoting responsibility In smart Development projects (Grant Agreement no. 732561).

09/02/2015 – 29/11/2016: Executive Director. ISMS Forum Spain, Pº De la Habana 54, 2º-1, 28036 Madrid (Spain).

01/02/2012 – 30/01/2015: Research Assistant. The Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6AA Milton Keynes (UK). Funded by EU FP7 “SURPRISE: Surveillance, Privacy and Security: A large scale participatory assessment of criteria and factors determining acceptability and acceptance of security technologies in Europe” (grant agreement no. 285492).

01/10/2008 – 30/04/2014: PhD Researcher. The Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6AA Milton Keynes (UK). Funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as part of The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting project – WP1: The Role of Technology Companies in Promoting Surveillance Internationally.

01/10/2008 – 30/09/2010: Research Assistant. University Carlos III, 126 C\ Madrid, 28903 Getafe, Madrid (Spain).

02/10/2006 – 30/09/2008: Teaching Assistant. Department of Business Administration, University Carlos III, 126 C\ Madrid, 28903 Getafe, Madrid (Spain).

OTHER MERITS

Oct-2018-ongoing: Co-leader of the task force on GDPR-Compliant Policies & Procedures, part of the Working Group for the correct implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation in Biomedical Research, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Health through the Alliance Against Cancer (ACC), part of European Institute of Oncology, Campus IFOM-IEO, via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan (Italy).

Member of the Program Committee of the Track ‘Re-Coding Black Mirror’, International World Wide Web Conferences WWW 2018, April 23-27, 2018, Lyon, France. doi>10.1145/3184558.3192319.

PRIZES & AWARDS

09/2017:  Best Full-Paper Award of the e-Business and e-Government track, British Academy of Management 2017 Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 5th-7^th September 2017. Paper: “Watching or being watched? The double life of your smartphone”, co-authored with Kirstie Ball and Sally Dibb.

03/2014: Privacy-by-Design Ambassador, title awarded by Ann Cavoukian, former Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (Canada).

04/2012: Awarded the conference grant to attend IAPP Europe Data Protection Intensive 2012, 25-26 April, London.

PHD SUPERVISORY ROLE

22/01/2018 – 31/07/2021: Ms Mairi Laird, Doctoral project “Changes to Data Protection and the Challenges and Conflicts of the Unique Status of Universities in the UK”, Coventry University, Faculty of Business and Law. Director of Study: prof Umut Turksen; supervisory team: prof Sally Dibb and Dr Sara Degli-Esposti.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2019-20: ‘Seguridad, privacidad y aspectos legales y éticos’, Máster en Big Data y Data Science: Ciencia e Ingeniería de Datos, Autónoma University of Madrid, Madrid.

2018-19: ‘Applied Statistics’, Security Bachelor Degree, Nebrija University, Madrid.

2008-09: ‘Cost Accounting’, Degree in Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III Madrid.

2007-08: ‘Marketing’, Degree in Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III Madrid.

2006-08: ‘Marketing Research’, Degree in Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III Madrid.