Research mentioned by Sir Peter Bottomley in parliamentary debate: Watch Video Short Video on Paper he mentioned Link to paper

I was honoured to present one of the Karen Spärck Jones lectures organised by the BCS on the 30th March 2022

Top 2% of influential researchers in the world

Project launched: Revealing Young Learners’ Mental Models of Online Sludge
Revealing Young Learners’ Mental Models of Online Sludge – SpriteHub

CFP: Understanding People: Extensions of Human Computer Interaction (Cambridge University Press)

Participated in ACSAC Panel with Merrill Warkentin Slides

21 February 2023: Interviewed for Cyber Ways Podcast by Craig van Slyke and Tom Stafford

Participated in The Marconi Society Panel

Grants

2023: Co-I: 92K SELF-PROTECT (REPHRAIN) with Paul van Schaik (Teeside University) and Alastair Irons (Abertay). External advisor: Craig van Slyke

2022: Co-I: 92K Well-Consent (REPHRAIN) with Paul van Schaik (Teeside University)

2022: Co-I: £3.4 million REPHRAIN Project: Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People during Life Transitions led by Prof Nishanth Sastry of University of Surrey.

2022: P-I: 30K NCSC Grant: Investigating Safety and Security Practices of those with Low Literacy

2021: P-I: 30K SPRITE Funded Grant: Revealing Young Learners’ Mental Models of Online Sludge

2020: P-I: 50K Scottish Government Grant: MUSTER: Moving bUsinesSes Towards cybEr Resilience

2020: P-I: 30K Cyber Nexus Grant: Teaching young children password best practice principles

SICSA Cyber Security Theme Leader

Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security

Member of CYAN (Cybersecurity Advisors Network)

My ACM Profile

My research focuses on human-centred security, a branch of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). I am interested in the interplay between users and security in the context of societal and industrial use. I want to work towards creating a natural easy yet secure interaction between humans and devices. My work has a strong development, experimental and deployment focus, testing solutions in practical situations. I have come up with a number of novel solutions to improve usability in a wide range of situations. I have also done fundamental work in understanding people’s mental models of security in a variety of applications and contexts. My vision: Human-as-Solution, rather than Human-as-Problem.

Written by Ganna Pogrebna

Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland
Visiting Professor, Rhodes University
Professor Extraordinaire, University of South Africa
Visiting Professor, Division of Cybersecurity, Abertay University
Honorary Research Affiliate, University of Glasgow
Fulbright Cyber Security Scholar 2016/17.
Senior Analyst, Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research
Associate Editor:
- Transactions on Forensics and Security
- IJHCS
- Network Security Column
- Information Technology and People
- Journal of Intellectual Capital
- Organizational Cyber Security

Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Secondment Awardee
Association of Commonwealth Universities PhD Scholarship Awardee
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (RSA) Undergraduate Scholarship Awardee

Research Areas

Human-Centred Security
Responsibilization of Cyber Security
Behavioural Security & Nudging
Ethical Aspects of Cyber Security
Security-Related Mental Models
Teaching Children Cyber Security Principles
Mobile Phone Usage by the Elderly
Knowledge Visualization
Visual Authentication
Security Awareness
Governance

Here are some photos of my fantastic research collaborators

Industrial Experience

Iron and Steel Corporation of South Africa – Development of a Truck Allocation System for the Sishen Iron Ore Mine
Iron and Steel Corporation of South Africa – Access Control System for Durnacol Coal Mine
System Support: Kentron

Fulbright

Contact Me

Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Strathclyde University
Glasgow
G1 1XQ
UNITED KINGDOM

cyber4humans@gmail.com

Melanie Volkamer Karlsruhe University	Merrill Warkentin Mississippi State University	Judy Van Biljon UNISA	Marc Dupuis Washington University
Verena Zimmerman ETH Zurich	Stephen Flowerday Tulsa	Jacques Ophoff Abertay	Suzy Prior Abertay
Isabella Venter UWC	Renette Blignault UWC	Karl van der Schyff	Oksana Kulyk University of Copenhagen
Benjamin Reinheimer Karlsruhe University	Giampaolo Bella University of Catania	Luca Vigano UCL	Adele Da Veiga University of South Africa
Ivano Bongiovanni Queensland University of Technology	Craig Orgeron	P. Edward French Mississippi State University	Partha Das Chowdhury
Rosalind Searle UNISA	Paul van Schaik Teeside University	Craig Van Slyke Louisiana Tech University	Andrea Tick Óbudai Egyetem, Hungary

Dr Karen Renaud