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Member of the UK Government Cyber Advisory Board (GCAB)

Cabinet Office

Programme Leadership Team BSc Cyber Security and Digital Forensics

University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)

• I joined the BSc Cyber Security and Digital Forensics programme leadership team in 2024, to support and mentor a new leadership team, and to further promote opportunities of external industry engagement for our undergraduate students, including the continued organisation of guest speakers as well as new industry collaboration with teaching.

Professor of Cyber Security

University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)

• Full Professor in Cyber Security in recognition of ‘Advancing Teaching and Learning’ and for ‘Research with Impact’.
• Successful research grant income with over £2.1M directed awarded from external funding sources, and over £3.7M in total (see projects page for futher details).
• Published 90+ academic articles as of April 2026, in high-quality journals and conference venues (see publications page for further details).
• Supervision of PhD student research (4 completions, 6 current, March 2026), as well as supporting post-doctoral research fellows (2 former, 2 current, March 2026) (see projects page for further details).
• Experience of supervising 100+ student research projects across undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as supporting extra curricula paid student research and consultancy work (see projects page for further details).
• Leading outreach initiatives and upskilling educators and industry professionals in cyber security (see teaching page for further details).

Co-Director of UWEcyber Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (NCSC Certified)

University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)

• Co-Director of UWEcyber ‘Gold’ NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) that brings together our teaching and learning, external engagement, outreach, research and knowledge exchange in Cyber Security, with a multi-disciplinary perspective involving staff across the entire University, a regional network of educators with a passion to upskill cyber security education, and a regular guest speaker seminar series that has attracted presenters from across the globe.

CSRC Cyber Security Research Theme Lead

University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)

• The Computer Science Research Centre (CSRC) at UWE is made up of 5 themes: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Data Science, Expressive Computer Interaction, and Smart Cities. I serve as Cyber Security Research Theme Lead since the reorganisation of the CSRC in 2019, supporting academic staff and PhD researchers to develop cyber security research across infrastructure security, software security, AI/data security, and cyber crime domains.

Co-Founder / Co-Director

CSE Connect

• A National Cyber Security Education network to bring together academia, industry and government. Supported by the UK National Cyber Security Centre, the network hosts regular events as well as an annual conference, that promotes collaboration and sharing to enhance cyber security education, both within the UK and working with global partners. (Formerly CISSEUK, a UK chapter of CISSE, the Colloquium of Information Systems Security Education)

Programme Leader MSc Cyber Security (NCSC Certified)

University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)

• Former Programme Leader of the NCSC-Certified MSc Cyber Security, having grown the programme from its initial delivery for 13 students in 2018 to as many as 150 students across two intakes in an academic year, and achieving a PTES overall student satisfaction score of 92% (2024).

Associate Professor of Cyber Security

University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)

Post Doctoral Research Associate

University of Oxford

• Cyber Security Centre, Department of Computer Science
• Research project: ‘Corporate Insider Threat Detection (CITD)’ funded by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI).
• Lectureship post at St. Catherine College, teaching Computer Graphics.
• Lectureship post at Worcester College, tutoring International students in Computer Graphics
• Teaching at the Department of Computer Science includes classes for the Visual Analytics postgraduate course, and both tutorials and practical labs for the Computer Graphics course.
• Supervision of postgraduate projects in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security

Software Developer

Freelance

• Desktop and Mobile (iOS, Android, Blackberry) development.
• Over 40,000 paid downloads on the iOS App Store worldwide since July 2011, with Tide Times being recognised in the Stuff magazine ‘200 best apps of all time’, and also achieving #1 in the ‘Top Paid Weather’ category (Summer 2011).
• PocketCoder used by top sports clubs worldwide including Manchester United FC, Welsh Rugby Union, Ireland RFU, Barnsley FC, Bolton FC, QPR, and the Football Association.
• Desktop software includes collaborative development with University Hospital Wales and NHS, producing a 3D stereoscopic imaging system for ophthalmic clinical assessment based on PhD research.
• Proficient in variety of development languages: Python, Javascript, Java, C++, C#, Objective-C, Swift.

Post Doctoral Research Assistant

Swansea University

• Department of Computer Science
• Research project: ‘Sports Video Visualization’ funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.
• Guest lecturer on iOS Software Development and Sports Video Visualisation
• ‘Inspirational Speaker’ and iOS Schools Workshop Lead for Technocamps Wales.
• Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate projects.

Software Developer

Cardiff University

• Development of research-led Android mobile application, GeoCaption.

PGCert

University of the West of England

Teaching and Learning for Higher Education

PhD

Cardiff University

Computer Science

• Multi modal Retinal Imaging: Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Image Registration using Mutual Information

BSc

Cardiff University

Computer Science

• Online Multi player Chinese Checkers Game with Intelligent Computer Opponent

UWEcyber Research Laboratory strategic investment

Wallscourt Foundation (£1.5m).

Cyber Sandpit - Linking cyber effect to mission objectives

DSTL Serapis Framework in collaboration with Trimetis Ltd. (Total £120k, UWE £50k).

Every human a sensor - Crowdsourcing Cyber Data

DSTL Serapis Framework in collaboration with Trimetis Ltd. (Total £80k, UWE £41k).

Teaching CyBOK through Cyber Physical Systems

CyBOK (Cyber Security Body of Knowledge) and NCSC (Total £5k).

Autonomous Resilience in Cyber Defence

DSTL Serapis Framework in collaboration with Trimetis Ltd. (Total £30k, UWE £5k).

Cyber Security and Data Governance for SMEs

National Cyber Security Centre (Total £40k).

CyberWEST - Cyber Security Education for Schools

National Cyber Security Centre (Total £41k).

Transform Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) - UK First Technology Line of Defence

InnovateUK Smart Grant in collaboration with Synalogik Ltd. (Total £458k, UWE £37k).

Building a place-based approach to preventing online sexual abuse

Vice Chancellor’s Challenge Fund 2022-23 (Total £25k internal).

Turing Network Development Awards

Alan Turing Institute (Total £25k).

Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Cluster (CSC3)

UWE Expanding Research Excellence Scheme (Total £100k internal).

Cyber security analytics in telecommunications systems: Managing security and service in complex real-time 5G networks

PhD 50-50 studentship in collaboration with Ribbon Communications Ltd. (Total £35k external, £35k internal).

Co-creation of innovative school projects for teachers to improve cyber security education

National Cyber Security Centre (Total £50k).

Teaching CyBOK Cyber-Physical Systems Security through Interactive Simulation

CyBOK / National Cyber Security Centre (Total £5k).

Identifying and Tackling Counter-Terrorism Finances through Investigation Automation (SCOUT: A fully automated enhanced risk assessment engine)

InnovateUK Smart Grants (Total £490k).

Cyber Security Assessment for Project CAVForth (An Autonomous Bus Service From Park & Ride Across Forth Bridge to Edinburgh Park Train & Tram Interchange)

Innovate UK and Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) (Total £34k).

Analysis and Visualisation of Ransomware and Malicious Network Propagation

National Cyber Security Centre Internship Award (Total £2.4k).

Penetration testing Consultancy

VQ Communications Ltd. (Total £9k).

Interactive Inspection of Adversarial Machine Learning for Collaborative Human-Machine Trust and Security in Data-Driven Military and Defence

PhD 50-50 studentship in collaboration with Techmodal Ltd. (Total £35k external, £35k internal).

Shared Collaborative Project Planning in Secure Federated Learning Environments

PhD 50-50 studentship in collaboration with Techmodal Ltd. (Total £35k external, £35k internal).

Travel Grant: Colloquium for Information Systems Security in Education 2019, Las Vegas, USA

National Cyber Security Centre (Total £2k).

Cyber Security in the Home: Detecting IoT Threats

National Cyber Security Centre Internship Award (Total £2.4k).

Travel Grant: Colloquium for Information Systems Security in Education 2018, New Orleans, USA

National Cyber Security Centre (Total £2k).

HASTE: Human-centric Active-learning for decision Support in Threat Exploration

DSTL Defence and Security Accelerator (Total £85k).

Creating Machine Intelligence with Intelligent Interactive Visualisation

PhD 50-50 studentship in collaboration with Montvieux Ltd. (Total £35k external, £35k internal).

RicherPicture: Automated network defence through business and threat-led machine learning – Phase 2

DSTL Centre for Defence Enterprise (Total £280k).

Enhanced personal situational awareness through network and systems visualization

UWE Bristol Vice-Chancellor’s Early Career Researcher Development Awards (Total £13k internal).

RicherPicture: Automated network defence through business and threat-led machine learning

DSTL Centre for Defence Enterprise (Total £108k).

AI Security - Current Challenges and Future Directions

x-gov GenAI Security Group

Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) and Academic Centres of Excellence (ACE) - approaching institutional excellence in cybersecurity education in the US and UK.

CAE Symposium, Pittsburgh, April 2026.

Developing the faculty pipeline - An international conversation on cybersecurity education.

CAE Symposium, Pittsburgh, April 2026.

Transparency as The Foundation, Standards, Assurance, and Trust in Cyber Security.

CYBERUK, Glasgow, 2026.

Trowbridge musician's warning after voice and face used in AI deep fake romance scam

ITV News, 2026.

Security and AI in the year of vibe coding and computer use agents, where do we go next?

Keynote speaker at 10th International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies (ICIoTCT 2025), Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, India.

Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, AI for Security or the Security of AI?

Cyber security research seminar series, Centre for Cyber Security, Communications and Network Research, University of Plymouth.

Fake QR code scams

ITV West Country News

10 steps to protect your business from cyber attacks

TechInformed

Three key tips for staying safe online

Independent Advisor, August 2023.

What are the most important features in a VPN?

Independent Advisor, August 2023.

Hacking an IoT Home New opportunity for Cyber Security Education

Faculti, 2023.

Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, AI for Security or the Security of AI?

International Conference on Future Tech, CASUGOL Singapore Keynote Speaker, June 2023.

DSIT Cyber Growth and Innovation, Invited Panel Member

Engine Shed Bristol, March 2023.

Cynam Guest Host

Cyber Cheltenham, March 2023.

Breaking into Cyber Security

CASUGOL Singapore, October 2022.

Getting into Cyber Security

NCSC CyberFirst Futures, August 2022.

Cryptocurrency, crime, and cyber security, Let's Make Tech Inclusive

London Borough of Redbridge, May 2022.

An audience with Professor Phil Legg

UK Cyber Security Council Leader's Briefing, May 2022.

Cyber Security and the Global Pandemic

City of Bristol College, February 2022.

Cyber Security and Working with Academia

South West Cyber Resilience Centre, December 2021.

HCI and Cyber Security Boundaries and Fusion

Cardiff University, December 2021.

Cyber Security at UWE

UTC Berkeley Green, July 2021.

Post-Pandemic Cyber Security Education

IEEE Cyber Science Keynote Speaker, June 2021.

Light bulbs and race cars, Cyber security education using cyber-physical systems.

Cybersecurity, Privacy and Human-Centred Computing Seminar, Cardiff University, March 2021

Cyber Security, AI, and Digital Futures

CASUGOL Nights Out Talk, September 2020.

Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education UK: How do we inspire sharing and collaboration in higher education

NCSC Annual Education Conference, Stratford upon Avon, 2019.

Establishing a forum for the UK cyber security education community, and the role of education with research

NCSC Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACECSR) Annual Conference, Stratford upon Avon, 2019.

Cyber Security in the UK, Addressing the state of the nation

Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education, Las Vegas, USA, 2019.

Establishing a forum for the UK cyber security education community

CYBERUK, Glasgow, 2019

What do we really mean by 'understanding cyber security'?

Bristol Festival of Learning, June 2018.

Visual Analytics and Human Machine Collaboration for Insider Threat Detection

University of Bristol, December 2017.

Human Machine Collaboration in Active Machine Learning

Adarga.ai, August 2017.

The five things everyone with a computer should do to prevent being hacked

Bristol Post, May 2017

AI tracks your every move and tells your boss if you’re slacking

New Scientist, January 2017.

Data Driven Decision Making

Cranfield University, April 2016.

Visualizing Cyber Security

vLunch, Cardiff University, March 2016.

Visualization What is it good for?

Software Engineering Research Group, UWE, March 2015.

Corporate Insider Threat Detection

SMi Oil and Gas Cyber Security, Oslo, June 2014.

Corporate Insider Threat Detection

CIFAS Annual conference, London, June 2013.

Glyph-based Visualization for Sports Analytics

Sports Informatics Symposium, Loughborough University, June 2012.

ITWales London 2012 Olympics Special-Sports Visualisation

ITWales, June 2012.

Glyph-based Visualization for Sports Analytics

Glyph-Based Visualization Workshop, Oxford University, May 2012.

Sports Video Visualization

vLunch, Cardiff University, October 2011.

Wales Rugby World Cup team using Swansea University app

BBC Online, September 2011.

Welsh scientists set to create revolution in sports coaching

Western Mail, April 2011.

Best Paper Award

24th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2025)

Best Paper Award

IEEE International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (Cyber SA 2016)

CSCT Researcher of the Year Award

Faculty of Envinroment and Technology, UWE Bristol

Best Paper Award

Managing Insider Security Threats (MIST) conference