Both South Korea and the United Kingdom have been home to significant developments in the social and cultural analysis of language over the past forty years. Under the collective umbrella of sociolinguistics, fields have expanded to include areas of critical discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, semiotics, dialectology, conversation analysis, linguistic ethnography, applied linguistics, and others. These fields cover a wide range of topics, from the microanalysis of conversation and interaction to the global spread of English as a skill tied to class ideologies. While sharing intellectual origins as well as topical interests, sociolinguists in the UK and South Korean have had little opportunity for institutional or research collaboration. This network project aims to build connections around topics that are increasingly relevant for both academic and public domains. This project will do so by focusing on the sociolinguistics of contemporary Korean and its transnational movements. Now is an opportune time to build such a network for two reasons. First, the study of the Korean language has become hugely popular around the world, spread by interest in South Korean popular culture and media. This has led to huge growth in university enrolments in Korean language and Korean studies programmes, particularly in the UK. At the University of Sheffield, the Korean Studies program has grown from enrolling under five students enrolling per year to over seventy in the past ten years. Universities like SOAS, Edinburgh, Coventry, Manchester, Newcastle, and Central Lancashire have also seen a sharp rise in home student interest in Korean language and studies. Students receive high-level training in language as well as in academic areas of culture, society, history, and politics. Reflecting this growth, the South Korean government agencies have recently invested significant funding in the growth of Korean studies programmes in the UK. Second, research in South Korean sociolinguistics has been at the forefront of addressing emerging topics in recent years. These include the globalization of English, the commodification of language as a skill, language and schooling, regional and ethnic stratification of linguistic varieties, and ideologies that link ethnicity, language, and prestige in complex ways. Furthermore, South Korea's highly urbanized, globally mobile, and digitally connected society portends a number of emerging trends in the future of sociolinguistic analysis. This context includes the rise of hybrid youth registers, language-linked migration across the global South, multimodal communication, anonymous digital platforms, and communities of translation. These areas have received popular attention in South Korea as well as some scholarship in Korean and English. With the spread of both digital technology and global capitalism, these trends will spread to more contexts globally, and knowledge from South Korean cases can begin to set the agenda for other areas and scholars. These reasons suggest that new pathways of research and knowledge exchange between UK and South Korean scholars and institutions can have wide-ranging impact. The Sociolinguistic Futures network will not only aim to bring together researchers from the UK and South Korea who have not had opportunities to collaborate or share insights, but also establish pathways for students and early career researchers to pursue cross-cultural study, research, and mentoring opportunities. These pathways can lead to new transnational and transmedia research projects that continue to set agendas for sociolinguistic research in the coming decades.

SPRITE+ is a NetworkPlus that will deliver a step change in engagement between people involved in research, practice, and policy relevant to trust, identity, privacy, and security (TIPS) with a focus on digital contexts. SPRITE+ will deliver a coherent, coordinated, multi-disciplinary approach, with strong stakeholder relationships at the centre. Collectively, we will identify and address key research challenges. Our activities will be centred around 'Challenge Themes', which will be broad, future-focused, and important to a wide range of stakeholders, where issues of security, privacy, identity, and trust are all relevant, and where an interdisciplinary approach is essential to fully addressing the Challenge. Examples might be Responsible innovation; Automation, autonomy, acceptability; Usable Security; 'Super-connectivity'; Risk, resilience, and recovery; Digital Identities. Over the lifetime of SPRITE+, Working Groups will explore each Theme, producing comprehensive, cross-disciplinary understanding of key themes and making recommendations for future research priorities. Members will have the opportunity to bid to our £400K research fund via sandpits at which they will co-create proposals with users, e.g., for events, feasibility studies, and sprint reviews. SPRITE+ is led by a Management Team (the PI, 4 co-Is), working closely with Project Partners from across industry, government, third sector and academia. A cadre of Expert Fellows will complement the Management Team's expertise and will help SPRITE+ develop a multidisciplinary approach to realising its vision. Fellows will provide intellectual leadership, take a leading role in Working Groups, and help bridge the gaps between diverse cognate groups and networks. A Strategic Advisory Board will review and develop SPRITE+'s performance. Membership will be open to all with an interest in research on security, privacy, identity, and trust. Members will receive a newsletter, access to online resources, and opportunities to attend events and bid for funds. The outcomes of our activities will be (a) a vibrant collaborative community, with strong collaborative relationships and increased industry investment in new research; (b) an expanded academic TIPS community, that includes researchers from humanities, behavioural and social sciences, and from other areas of 'security science'; (c) a community of Early Career Researchers who understand users and have the skills and knowledge to deliver high quality impactful research in their future careers; (d) mutual support and understanding between cognate groups and networks; and e) a set of roadmaps that shape future research investment priorities.

Digital technologies and services are shaping our lives. Work, education, finance, health, politics and society are all affected. They also raise concomitant and complex challenges relating to the security of and trust in systems and data. TIPS (Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security) issues thus lie at the heart of our adoption of new technologies and are critical to our economic prosperity and the well-being of our citizens. Identifying and addressing such issues requires a coherent, coordinated, multi-disciplinary approach, with strong stakeholder relationships at the centre. SPRITE+ is a vehicle for communication, engagement, and collaboration for people involved in research, practice, and policy relevant to TIPS in digital contexts. Since launching in 2019, we have established ourselves as the go-to point of contact to engage with the broadest UK network of interdisciplinary, cross-sector digital TIPS experts. The second phase of SPRITE+ ('SPRITE+2') will continue to build our membership, whilst expanding the breadth and depth of our innovation, and deepen our impact through proactive engagement. SPRITE+2 will have the following objectives: 1. Expand our TIPS community, harnessing the expertise and collaborative potential of the national and international TIPS communities 2. Identify and prioritise future TIPS research challenges 3. Explore and develop priority research areas to enhance our collective understanding of future global TIPS challenges 4. Stimulate innovative research through sandpits, industry led calls, and horizon scanning 5. Deepen engagement with TIPS research end users across sectors to accelerate knowledge Exchange 6. Understand, inform, and influence policy making and practice at regional, national and international level These will be delivered through four work packages and two cross cutting activities. All work packages will be led by the PI (Elliot) to ensure that connections are made and synergies exploited. Each sub-work package will be led by a member of the Management Team and supported by our Expert Fellows and Project Partners. WP1 Develop the Network We will deliver a set of activities designed to expand, broaden, and engage the network, from expert meetings and workshops to student bootcamps and international conferences. WP2 Engage stakeholders to enhance knowledge exchange and deliver impact. We will be greatly enhancing our purposive engagement activity in SPRITE+2. This activity will include a new business intelligence function and PP engagement grants, designed to enhance mutual understanding between researchers and stakeholders. WP3 Identify, prioritise, and explore future TIPS challenges We will select and then investigate priority areas of future TIPS. Two areas are pre-scoped based on the work we have done so far in SPRITE+ (TIPS in digital cities; trustworthy digital identities) with a further two be identified during the lead up to SPRITE+2. WP4 Drive innovation in research This WP concerns the initiation and production of high-quality impactful research. Through horizon scanning, sandpits and industry-led calls, we will steer ideas through an innovation pipeline ensuring SPRITE+2 is future focused. Cross cutting activities The first cross-cutting activity will accelerate the translation of TIPS research into policy and practice for public and private sector end uses. The second focuses on mechanisms to facilitate communication within our community. The experiences of SPRITE+ and the other DE Network+s demonstrate that it takes years of consistent and considerable effort for a new network to grow membership and develop productive relationships with stakeholders. In SPRITE+2 grant we would hit the ground running and maximise the impact of four additional years of funding. A successful track record, a well-established team, and a raft of ambitious new plans provide a solid foundation for strong delivery in 2023-27.