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The Team

Who We Are

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Arianna Schuler Scott

Senior Associate Director, Integrated Security Education and Research Centre

Areas of expertise:

  • TBC

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Charis Rice

Associate Professor

Areas of expertise:

  • Behavioural nudges for security compliance

  • Consumer trust

  • Disinformation

  • Insider threats

  • Reputation management

  • Security awareness campaigns

  • Security culture development

  • Trustworthiness

  • Trust-building frameworks

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Charles Weir

Senior Lecturer

Areas of expertise:

  • Cyber resilience

  • Decision-making under uncertainty in cybersecurity

  • Human factors in security

  • Risk management

  • Security by design

  • Sociotechnical aspects of software engineering

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Cigdem Sengul

Reader at Brunel University London

Areas of expertise:

  • Access control (models)

  • Dark patterns and deceptive designs

  • Digital identity

  • GDPR

  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • Internet of Things

  • Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

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Dr Farhan Ahmad

Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Areas of expertise:

  • TBC

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Edward Apeh

Principal Academic in Computing

Areas of expertise:

  • TBC

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Irini Katsirea

Reader in International Media Law

Areas of expertise:

  • Disinformation

  • Misinformation

  • Right to be Forgotten

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Julie Dawson

Chief Regulatory & Policy Officer

Areas of expertise:

  • Age assurance/verification

  • Cultural attitudes towards digital identity

  • Digital credentials

  • Digital identity verification

  • Digital identity wallets

  • Digital identity

  • Identity management

  • Identity presentation in digital spaces

  • Online safety

  • Privacy concerns in identity verification

  • Trust development in online communities

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Kai Xu

Associate Professor

Areas of expertise:

  • Agentic systems

  • Data provenance

  • Human AI collaboration

  • Human centred AI

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Karen Mc Cullagh 

Associate Professor in Law

Areas of expertise:

  • Data protection regulation

  • GDPR

  • User privacy rights

  • Cross-Border Data Transfers

  • Freedom of Information

  • Data privacy

  • Regulatory compliance

  • ECHR

  • Qualitative methods in privacy research

  • Right to be forgotten

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Kate Han

Lecturer in Digital Business & Information System

Areas of expertise:

  • Digital transformation

  • Digital twins

  • Data synthesis

  • Data linkage

  • Federated learning

  • Explainable AI

  • Open data

  • Personal data

  • Qualitative methods in privacy research

  • Recommendation systems

  • Smart cities

  • Scenario analysis

  • Third-party data sharing

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Maria Limniou

Senior Lecturer in Cyberpsychology

Areas of expertise:

  • TBC

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Mark Levine

Professor of Social Psychology

Areas of expertise:

  • Collective security behaviour in organisations

  • Context collapse awareness

  • Decision-making under uncertainty in cybersecurity

  • Ethical data practices

  • Human factors in security

  • Incident response psychology

  • Privacy paradox exploration

  • Surveillance systems

  • Social proofs

  • Security culture development

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Mark Levine

Professor of Social Psychology

Areas of expertise:

  • Collective security behaviour in organisations

  • Context collapse awareness

  • Decision-making under uncertainty in cybersecurity

  • Ethical data practices

  • Human factors in security

  • Incident response psychology

  • Privacy paradox exploration

  • Surveillance systems

  • Social proofs

  • Security culture development

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