University Training in Cyber Security

Universities of Bristol and Bath launch centre for doctoral training in cyber security.

16:02 16 October 2019

The University of Bristol has partnered with the University of Bath to launch a new Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security. The interdisciplinary centre, which is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is equipped to train a new generation of researchers to tackle identity, trust, privacy and security issues that affect the hyper-connected infrastructure of the future.

 

 

Professor Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Bristol and Director of the TIPS-at-Scale CDT said: “As we move towards a hyperconnected future, cyber-attacks form one of the major threats to national and international security.

 

 

“We need future leaders in academia and industry who are able to anticipate the myriad trust, identity, privacy and security challenges in complex infrastructures and develop solutions to overcome them.

 

 

“The interdisciplinary nature of our centre is key - such solutions will need to consider the highly intertwined nature of such infrastructures that include hardware, software and people – as designers, operators and users.”

 

 

Professor Adam Joinson, Professor of Information Systems at the University of Bath and Deputy Director of the TIPS-at-Scale CDT said: “Research students will be trained from the very beginning by exploring TIPS in large-scale socio-technical infrastructures and, through their research and training, develop interdisciplinary approaches to address them.

 

 

 “This will ensure that, throughout their doctoral studies, they understand the challenges of delivering cyber security at this unprecedented scale – and, hence, upon graduating, will be ready to tackle these challenges head on and lead programmes of work in academia and industry to secure our future infrastructures.”