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THE UCL are currently recruiting for the prestigious role of Director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crime based at UCL (details below). Do apply if interested or forward to others who may be interested: The Dawes Centre for Future Crime The nature of the crime and security problems we face has transformed in recent years and continues to change rapidly. Most obviously, the digital revolution has created new challenges in the form of cybercrime and other cybersecurity threats, while developments such as the Dark Web and the Internet of Things are exposing new problems. But the issue is wider than digital technologies: developments, for example, in nanotechnology, robotics and cybernetics are creating new opportunities that can be exploited for criminal and terrorist purposes. And nor do the new threats solely involve technological developments: social changes associated with population growth, changing migration patterns, and climate change all have the potential to drive crime and insecurity in as yet largely unforeseen ways. These new threats require new, pre-emptive responses. It is with this mission in mind that the Dawes Centre for Future Crime is being established. Funded initially by a grant of £3.7m from the Dawes Trust, the Centre will have the dual purpose of identifying emergent crime and security threats and developing and recommending pre-emptive measures. It will produce cutting-edge research driven by a commitment to real world impact, scientific rigour, and multidisciplinarity across the social, physical, computer and engineering sciences. On the basis of this research, it will work with end users such as police and related agencies to develop new ways to prevent crime and tackle offending through increased disruption or detection..