Upcoming Institute events
CyberUK 2025
CYBERUK is the UK government's flagship cyber security event, hosted by the National Cyber Security Centre. It convenes over 2,000 cyber security leaders and professionals each year for networking, knowledge exchange, and collaboration.
If you are there, visit us at our Booth (F19) to discuss our research, collaboration opportunities, make connections or to play our famous Threats and Trade-offs board game.
We are also proud to announce that Emma Woodward, IDSB Doctoral Researcher, will be speaking at the session “Technical Masterclass - Research for Better Cyber Defence” on 8 May 2025, 9:30 am - 10:45 am. For more information click here.
Bath Digital Festival
Join Us at the Bath Digital Festival!
Come along to the Bath Digital Festival and discover the exciting work we're doing in digital security research.
On the final day of the festival – 15th May – our researchers will be showcasing a range of innovative tools and research outputs. Through interactive demos and conversations, we’ll explore how the digital world can be designed to better connect with people — in ways that are both safe and secure.
Date: 14th May
Location: Bath Digital Festival (exact venue details coming soon!)
More details to follow
Dr Alicia Wanless: Why the information environment matters and how can it be understood?
As societies continue to grapple with myriad issues related to the information environment – from the introduction of new technology to the spread of disinformation – a key component in getting ahead of problems is missing: an understanding of how the information environment works.
Alicia Wanless is the director of the Information Environment Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which aims to foster evidence-based policymaking for the governance of the information environment.
IDSB Seminar: CyCraft
Institute member Dr Andre Barrinha gives an update on the current ‘Cyber Statecraft in an Era of Systemic Competition’ project, a joint project with KCL and Bath funded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS).
IDSB Launch Event
We are excited to be celebrating the launch of the Bath Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour on the
29th January 2025
6-8pm
Guildhall Banqueting Hall, Bath
Keynote speaker: Professor Dame Angela McLean
We hope you can join us.
SALIENT Hub
SALIENT Hub is an ambitious five-year investment funded under the UKRIs building a secure and resilient world (BSRW) strategic theme. The Research and Coordination Hub aims to deliver internationally significant and transformative research supporting the UK’s efforts to contribute to a secure and resilient world.
BSRW aims to strengthen security and resilience in areas of personal vulnerability, community fragility, and national risk, across various social and economic sectors at the heart of daily life.
Bath’s Prof Mike Lewis, programme Co-I and lead for Work Package: Resilient and Secure Supply Chains, will give an overview of the whole programme and in particular on the opportunities under the programme for researchers.
The Hubs first funding call is now open. Closes 7 February.
Contact Sarah Parry scp40@bath.ac.uk to attend
IDSB Workshop - HORIZON Large Grants
Dr Ceri-Wyn Thomas, Research Development Manager (Horizon Europe), Research and Innovation Services, University of Bath
Horizon funding opportunities, including Horizon Europe strategy for funding Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society, and Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space . All welcome please contact Sarah