Charles Weir

PhD student

Research Overview

Charles Weir has thirty years of experience as a software architect, design consultant and company MD, specialising in applications for terminals and mobile devices. He was Symbian technical lead for the Ericsson R380, the first smartphone, and app security lead for EE Cash on Tap, the UK’s first commercial Android payments app.

Charles is researching at Security Lancaster how to improve the security skills of software development teams: how to motivate developers, their best security learning resources, and what they most need to learn.

Email: c.weir1 @lancaster.ac.uk . Telephone: +44 (0) 7876 027350

Secure Software without the Experts
01/09/2016 → 01/09/2020
Research

Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the Acm Sigsoft Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Participation in conference

3rd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
Participation in conference

  • SCC (Security)
  • Security Lancaster (Cyber Security)