Professor Pamela Briggs

Professor

School: Psychology

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I hold a Chair in Applied Psychology at Northumbria University and am a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. I am a Co-Director of the UK's Centre for Digital Citizens, a £9m collaboration between the Universities of Newcastle, Northumbria, Edinbugh and UCL. My work primarily addresses issues of identity, trust, privacy and security in new social media, with a particular focus on digital inequality. In the last five years, I’ve secured over £2m in research funding, have published over forty articles on digital behaviour and have worked with government and industry to generate social and business impact from this work. I’m one of the founder members of the UK's Research Institute in Sociotechnical Cybersecurity, funded by the National CyberSecurity Centre (NCSC) in association with UKRI's Global Uncertainty Programme and my most recent research awards address both usable and inclusive privacy and security. I have contributed to three UK Government Office for Science reports (The Future of Identity; Using Behavioural Insights to Improve the Public’s use of Cyber Security Best Practice and Responsible Use of Data). I have worked with the European Commission’s High Level Group of Scientific Advisors, contributing to a workshop on Secure Digital Identities as part of the EC’s Scientific Advice Mechanism (Vilnius) and was an invited contributer to a 2021 USAID/UKRI workshop 'Shaping the Future of Inclusive Digital Development'.

Key Publications

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PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI, Briggs, P., Conati, C., Lawson, S., Montague, K., Nicolau, H., Pires, A., Stein, S., Vines, J. 22 Mar 2026, Companion Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2026 Companion, New York, United States, ACM
Slide.Bingo: From Passive Attendance to Active Listening Through AI-Generated Bingo, Montague, K., Jackson, D., Briggs, P., Talhouk, R., Carvalho, L., Scott, L., Lawson, S., Toombs, A., Gray, C., Parsons, P., Nicolau, H., Pires, A., Guerreiro, T., Vines, J. 13 Apr 2026, CHI EA '26: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, New York, USA, ACM
A Model of Trust in Online COVID-19 Information and Advice: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study, Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D., Moss, M., Briggs, P. 13 Feb 2025, In: JMIR Infodemiology
Clay Connections, Wallace, J., Bowman, R., Briggs, P. 12 Dec 2025
Content creators’ hopes and fears about artificial intelligence, Are, C., Briggs, P., Brown, R. 1 Dec 2025, In: Convergence
Cyberinsurance adoption strategies and security of online behaviour: an experimental study, Gómez, Y., Branley-Bell, D., Briggs, P., Vila, J. 3 Apr 2025, In: Behaviour and Information Technology
Exploring Public Attitudes on Technology-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence, Wood, B., Kocsis, K., Briggs, P. 1 Aug 2025, In: IEEE Security and Privacy
Human and digital ecosystems in the modern household, Briggs, P., Nicholson, J., Lukins, R. 6 Jan 2025, In: Frontiers in Psychology
Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation, Divon, T., Are, C., Briggs, P. 16 Jan 2025, In: Platforms & Society
Post-social media: de-platformed users’ challenges to belong in ‘corpo-civic’ spaces, Are, C., Briggs, P. 1 Oct 2025, In: Convergence

Professional Activity

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Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017) 2017
Invited talk: World Association for Sport Management, Lithuania: Engaging Sport Students in Higher Education 2017
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014 2014