Resources for PhD Students
A collection of web resources that may be useful for researchers.
UWE Doctoral Academy Resources
- Postgraduate Research Study
- Current studentship opportunities
- Doctoral Academy Handbook
- Doctoral Academy Handbook: Confirmation of Project (CP1)
- Information for current postgraduate researchers
What is it to do a PhD?
- The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
- Thesis Whisperer
- How to Get a PhD - Slides by Dr Sira Gratz (Glasgow)
- PhD Comics
What is it to supervise a PhD?
- What makes a good PhD supervisor
- The Good Supervision Guide for new and experienced research supervisors of PhDs
Relavent journals
Note: (Impact Factors last updated July 2025)
- IEEE Security and Privacy (IEEE - Impact Factor 3)
- Computers and Security (Elsevier - Impact Factor 5.4)
- Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier - Impact Factor 3.7)
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier - Impact Factor 8.0)
- Cybersecurity (Springer - Impact Factor 3.7)
- Computer Standards and Interfaces (Elsevier - Impact Factor 3.1)
- Cyber Security and Applications (Elsevier - No current IF)
- MDPI Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy (Elsevier - No current IF)
- Decision Support Systems (Elsevier - Impact Factor 6.8)
- Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier - Impact Factor 6.1)
- Security and Privacy (Wiley - Impact Factor 2.1)
- Journal of Cybersecurity (OUP - Impact Factor 3.2)
- Information and Software Technology (Elsevier - Impact Factor 4.3)
- Machine Learning with Applications (Elsevier - Impact Factor 4.9)
- Data Science and Management (Elsevier - Impact Factor 11.9)
- Journal of Computational Mathematics and Data Science (Elsevier - No current IF)
- Big Data Research (Elsevier - Impact Factor 4.2)
- Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (Elsevier - No current IF)
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM - Impact Factor 3.9)
- ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (ACM - Impact Factor 3.0)
- ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (ACM - Impact Factor 2.0)
- Digital Threats: Research and Practice (ACM - No current IF)
- Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier - Impact Factor 7.5)
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier - Impact Factor 6.2)
- Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier - Impact Factor 4.1)
- Internet of Things (Elsevier - Impact Factor 7.6)
Publication search libraries and related tools
- Google Scholar
- IEEE Xplore Library
- ACM Digital Library
- Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic (Guofei Gu)
- Connected Papers
LaTeX writing tools
Advice for academic reading
Datasets and resources for cyber security research
- AZSecure-data.org - Intelligence and Security Informatics Data Sets - University of Arizona, Drexel University, University of Virginia, University of Texas at Dallas, and University of Utah
- Malware Traffic Analysis
- Insider Threat Test Dataset, Carnegie Mellon University
- Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity Datasets, University of New Brunswick
- Real-CyberSecurity-Datasets, Github
- Awesome-Cybersecurity-Datasets, Github
- Awesome Cybersecurity, Github
- Cyber-Security-Dataset-collections, Github
- MIMIC-III Clinical Database
Advice for writing an academic literature review
Cyber Security Academic Conferences 2026
- European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference - Submissions: 18th January 2026
- IEEE Cyber Security and Resilience - Submissions: 2nd February 2026
- USENIX Security ‘26 - Submissions: 5th February 2026
- ESORICS 2026 - Submissions: 9th January and 21st April 2026
- IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops
- ACM CCS 2026 - Submissions: 14th January and 29th April 2026
- Cyber Science - Submissions: 28th February 2026
Other Academic Conferences 2026
- IEEE CyberBio - Submissions: 30th January 2026
- IEEE VIS
- IEEE International Conference on Communications
- ICCS
- UKCI
- MICCAI
- MIUA