The Team
Who We Are

Arianna Schuler Scott
Senior Associate Director, Integrated Security Education and Research Centre
Areas of expertise:
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TBC

Charis Rice
Associate Professor
Areas of expertise:
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Behavioural nudges for security compliance
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Consumer trust
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Disinformation
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Insider threats
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Reputation management
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Security awareness campaigns
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Security culture development
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Trustworthiness
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Trust-building frameworks

Charles Weir
Senior Lecturer
Areas of expertise:
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Cyber resilience
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Decision-making under uncertainty in cybersecurity
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Human factors in security
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Risk management
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Security by design
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Sociotechnical aspects of software engineering

Cigdem Sengul
Reader at Brunel University London
Areas of expertise:
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Access control (models)
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Dark patterns and deceptive designs
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Digital identity
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GDPR
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Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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Internet of Things
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Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

Dr Farhan Ahmad
Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
Areas of expertise:
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TBC

Edward Apeh
Principal Academic in Computing
Areas of expertise:
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TBC

Irini Katsirea
Reader in International Media Law
Areas of expertise:
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Disinformation
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Misinformation
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Julie Dawson
Chief Regulatory & Policy Officer
Areas of expertise:
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Age assurance/verification
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Cultural attitudes towards digital identity
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Digital credentials
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Digital identity verification
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Digital identity wallets
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Digital identity
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Identity management
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Identity presentation in digital spaces
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Online safety
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Privacy concerns in identity verification
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Trust development in online communities

Kai Xu
Associate Professor
Areas of expertise:
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Agentic systems
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Data provenance
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Human AI collaboration
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Human centred AI

Karen Mc Cullagh
Associate Professor in Law
Areas of expertise:
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Data protection regulation
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GDPR
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User privacy rights
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Cross-Border Data Transfers
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Freedom of Information
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Data privacy
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Regulatory compliance
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ECHR
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Qualitative methods in privacy research
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Right to be forgotten

Kate Han
Lecturer in Digital Business & Information System
Areas of expertise:
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Digital transformation
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Digital twins
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Data synthesis
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Data linkage
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Federated learning
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Explainable AI
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Open data
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Personal data
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Qualitative methods in privacy research
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Recommendation systems
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Smart cities
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Scenario analysis
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Third-party data sharing

Maria Limniou
Senior Lecturer in Cyberpsychology
Areas of expertise:
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TBC

Mark Levine
Professor of Social Psychology
Areas of expertise:
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Collective security behaviour in organisations
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Context collapse awareness
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Decision-making under uncertainty in cybersecurity
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Ethical data practices
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Human factors in security
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Incident response psychology
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Privacy paradox exploration
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Surveillance systems
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Social proofs
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Security culture development

Mark Levine
Professor of Social Psychology
Areas of expertise:
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Collective security behaviour in organisations
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Context collapse awareness
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Decision-making under uncertainty in cybersecurity
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Ethical data practices
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Human factors in security
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Incident response psychology
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Privacy paradox exploration
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Surveillance systems
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Social proofs
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Security culture development