On 23–24 September 2025, RISCS Alumni Fellows Dr Rebecca Owens and Dr Partha Das Chowdhury convened an international workshop, ‘Cybersecurity: A Matter of Law or a Matter of Justice?’ at Durham Law School. Over two days, early-career researchers, senior academics,
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EuroUSEC 2025 – registration open
Registration has now opened for the 2025 European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC). EuroUSEC is a forum for research and discussion on human factors in security and privacy that brings together researchers, practitioners, and students from diverse backgrounds – including
Securing converged technologies: new report
A new report, co-authored by RISCS Associate Fellow Dr Andrew Dwyer for the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT), looks at how emerging technology intersections will shape the future of cybersecurity. Drawing on research conducted with 20 cybersecurity experts,
Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities – Andrew Dwyer
Cyber intrusion capabilities—such as those used by penetration testers—are essential to enhancing our collective cyber security. However, there are various actors who build and use these capabilities to degrade and harm the digital security of human rights activists, journalists, and
Responding to BBC Panorama’s ‘Fighting Cyber Criminals’ – Lucy Davies
Lucy Davies, the summer 2025 RISCS doctoral intern, has drawn upon the expertise of the wider RISCS community to put together a critical response to the BBC Panorama documentary Fighting Cyber Criminals. In this blog, Lucy explores the impact of
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‘Cyber Workforce of the Future’ white paper
A new white paper on the ‘Cyber Workforce of the Future’ has been published. The paper captures insight and expertise shared during a roundtable held at Westminster earlier this year, at which RISCS Director Genevieve Liveley was a participant. The
New resource: Preppers’ Kit 2047
In the past, keeping candles in the kitchen drawer in case of a power blackout was a symbol of cultural, mundane, and domestic resilience. What could be an equivalent of that candle in 2047, in a world where energy resilience
Cybersecurity: A Matter of Law or a Matter of Justice? – registration open
The flagship ‘Cybersecurity: A Matter of Law or a Matter of Justice?’ workshop will be held on in Durham on Wed 24 September 2025. Proudly co-hosted by RISCS alumni Rebecca Owens, PhD from Durham Law School and Partha Das Chowdhury
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CyberMi2 Research Day 2025 – registration open
The third CyberMi2 Research Day 2025 will take place on Thu 21 August at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. CyberMi2 is an exclusive in-person event bringing together leading interdisciplinary cybersecurity researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, and the The University
Cybercrime summer school – registration open
The 8th Strathclyde International Perspectives on Cybercrime Summer School will run Monday 25th-Friday 29th August 2025 at the University of Strathclyde with a research symposium on Monday 25th August. Registration is open and students (PhD, MSc, UG), practitioners, and academics