Leadership Team

• Professor Awais Rashid
  Professor Awais Rashid is the CDT PI and Co-Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training and our CDT lead for socio-technical approaches to software and infrastructure security. Awais has 20 years of expertise leading large, multi-partner, interdisciplinary projects. He leads Bristol Cyber Security Group (with members from computer science, sociology, psychology, criminology) and is the director of the new UKRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre: REPHRAIN. Previously he was Associate Dean for PG studies and Director of the Science & Technology Graduate School (managing the EPSRC DTP) at Lancaster University (2010-2013). He is a member of the advisory boards for EPSRC’s Digital Economy programme and the UKRI Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research; and also serves on two UK government cyber expert groups. He heads the National Cyber Security Programme CyBOK project.
• Professor Adam Joinson
  Professor Adam Joinson is also a Co-Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training and our CDT lead on human sciences approach to privacy & security. Adam is also programme lead for the online behaviour strand of CREST and serves on two expert committees providing advice to government on human aspects of cyber security.
• Professor Richard Owen
  Professor Richard Owen has worked with EPSRC to develop responsible innovation into policy, is Co-PI on a large EU grant (e2M) exploring translation of RI into practice, has taught RI at all levels (including current EPSRC CDTs) and was Director of PG Studies at Exeter Business School. Richard is our CDT Responsible Innovation and co-creation lead.
• Professor Laura G.E. Smith
  PRofessor Laura Smith is a social psychologist with expertise on behavioural science aspects of cybersecurity, and is the CDT lead for Interdisciplinarity. She was PI on the 'Predicting Online Radicalisation' project, funded by the UKRI Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research. In 2016, she was awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship from the British Academy. She is co-investigator within the online behaviour stream of CREST, and is Chief Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology. Laura leads on student research development and experience.
• Dr Inah Omoronyia
  Dr Inah Omoronyia has a portfolio of collaborative, entrepreneurship and innovative research in areas of engineering privacy and security in software systems. His work is driven by the view that better software design (inc. its process, requirements, implementation and testing) is a pathway to effective data-inspired technological innovation, regulatory compliance and privacy. His research is funded by the industry, Innovate UK, EPSRC and Scottish Enterprise. Inah is a previous ERCIM Fellow and co-leads on skills training and masterclasses. Inah is our student training experience lead.