Security Lancaster
Innovation in Security and Citizen Protection
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Upcoming seminars (Seminar Archives)
News
- Council on Geostrategy: Cyber maritime: A priority for Britain
- Lancaster researchers to help lead the way in making future digital infrastructures cyber secure
- Professor Neeraj Suri and Professor Peter Garraghan project: UKRI Edge AI hub recieves £500k funding for research into cyber threats
Upcoming events (Event Archives)
Blogs
- Primary school children learn about data and cyber security from Lancaster computing experts
- Workshop - Cyber Security: an organisational and management perspective (November 2023)
- Op-Ed article: Maritime power shapes the world order – and is undergoing a sea change (theconversation.com).
- Op-Ed article: Houthi rebel Red Sea attacks and the threat of escalation and supply chain chaos are a major headache – and not just for the West (Basil Germond)
- Op-Ed article: The geopolitics of maritime cybersecurity (Basil Germond)
- Neeraj Suri and Basil Germond submitted written evidence: Basil gave oral evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research.
- Cyber Briefing Podcast: Lancaster University launch
- Op-Ed article: Ports as sites for security and defence (Basil Germond)
Publications
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Funding calls
- Internal SL Mini Project funding
- View all Funding Calls
Welcome to Security Lancaster
Security Lancaster is one of the largest interdisciplinary security research institutes in the UK with 120 staff from 15 academic departments. It is home to the ESRC UK national hub for social science research on security threats (CREST) and the EPSRC Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Security (TAS-S).
As a University Institute, Security Lancaster draws on excellence from across the University to deliver world class research and education that challenges the way individuals, organisations, and societies secure and protect themselves. We deliver several Masters and professional development programmes (e.g., MSc in Cyber Security), and fosters a collegiate and innovative research environment through year-round activities.
The institutes cross-disciplinary socio-technical research is actively complemented by policy engagement and education to deliver innovative solutions to today’s complex security challenges that affect people and societies.
Security Lancaster cultivates innovation and entrepreneurship by facilitating the exchange of ideas and information through the sharing of facilities, the creation of networks of like-minded individuals, and through the development of a ‘social infrastructure’. We bring together people from government, business, academia and the protection industries to create new perspectives on security, innovation and responsible entrepreneurship in a rapidly changing world.
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Research
Security Lancaster delivers research that innovates and creatively challenges the way that individuals, organisations and societies secure and protect themselves. Our approach delivers the very best use-inspired and pure research that delivers real impact.
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Enterprise and Engagement
We achieve our world-class research and educational achievements through engagement and collaboration with companies from a range of sectors, national governments, think tanks and other organisations with an interest in security and protection science.
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Education
Lancaster University has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre. Our Gold award is based on the quality of existing cyber security courses - in particular the MSc in Cyber Security - and a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject area. We have ambitious plans for the future, including offering additional programmes at Bachelor's and Master's levels and enhancing cyber awareness more broadly across the university’s staff and student population.
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