Cybercrime and Online Harms Practice and Research Network (COPRNET) Sara Correia-Hopkins founded, and now chairs, the Cybercrime and Online Harms Practice and Research Network (COPRNET), a pan-Wales network of 40+ organisations and individuals from across law enforcement, academia, industry and the charity sectors with an interest in victims and those vulnerable to cybercrime and online harms.
Outreach: TRUE Project
The TRUE project, a large multi-disciplinary project led by Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees, has conducted training with Ukrainian judges as part of USAID’s Justice4All initiative and on behalf of the European Union Assistance Mission in Ukraine. The project has recently published a guide for judges and fact-finders on evaluating open source evidence, and held a conference for legal practitioners in London in November 2023. Feedback from attendees indicated that the event strengthened their understanding of the key benefits and challenges of open source and user generated evidence. Professor McDermott Rees and Anne Hausknecht, a PhD student on the project, presented their research to prosecutors and police from across Europe at a Europol workshop in The Hague in January 2024. Professor McDermott Rees has given keynote addresses and invited lectures at Imperial College London; Vilnius University, Lithuania; Vrije University, Amsterdam; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights; the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Queen’s University Belfast, amongst others.
Since its launch in July 2023, the network has met quarterly and led to new collaborations.
Sara Correia-Hopkins was invited to attend the Global Fraud Summit in March 2024 organised by the UK Home Office and Ministry of Justice in London. This was a high profile event ( details here ) which brought together Ministers from the G7, Five Eyes, Singapore and South Korea, as well as academics, industry and victim support/campaigning organisations. Sara Correia-Hopkins collaborated with colleagues at Cardiff Metropolitan University to secure funding to deliver training on matters of cyber law and privacy to young people and those working with vulnerable groups, in deprived areas of Powys, Wales.
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