Dr Charles Weir

Research Fellow and Lecturer

Research Overview

Charles Weir has forty years of experience as a researcher, software architect, design consultant and company MD, specialising in leading edge software development. He helped introduce object-oriented and agile development to the UK; was technical lead for the world's first smartphone, the Ericsson R380; and was app security lead for the world's first Android payments app, EE Cash on Tap.Charles leads research at Security Lancaster on how to help development teams improve the security and privacy of the software they deliver.

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SL: The Future of Interlinked Computing
16/11/2022 → 31/03/2023
Research

SL: Using Design Fiction to Identify Future Vulnerabilities in Bio-IOT
15/11/2021 → 31/03/2022
Research

SL: Health IoT Privacy and Security Transferred to Engineering Requirements (HIPSTER)
01/08/2021 → 30/06/2023
Research

CyberASAP: Developer Security Essentials
01/04/2020 → 28/02/2021
Other

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

Lean Agile Scotland 2023
Participation in conference - Business/Professional

Sprite Plus Conference 2023
Participation in conference - Business/Professional

Living Securely in the Internet of Things
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

XP 2023
Participation in conference - Business/Professional

Future Challenges of IoT and IoT Cybersecurity in Healthcare and Wellbeing
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Ruthless Security workshop
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Dagstuhl Seminar on Empirical Evaluation of Secure Development Processes (23181)
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Workshop: New Adventures in Agile Development
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Government Call for Views on Software Resilience
Expert Opinion

New Adventures in Health Tech Product Development
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Public HIPSTER Workshop in Central Manchester
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

CASA Distinguished Lecture at Bochum University
Invited talk

HIPSTER presentation at BCS SPA Meeting
Invited talk

Lean Agile Scotland 2022
Participation in conference - Business/Professional

Cyber UK 2022
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Commercialising Cybersecurity in HealthTech
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Association of C and C++ Users Conference 2022
Participation in conference - Business/Professional

HIPSTER Project Twitter Feed
Other

Presentations to PETRAS PI Group
Invited talk

HIPSTER Blog: Research as It Happens
Other

Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Developer Security Essentials Train-the-Trainer
Business Course/Training

DCS Confer Series of Four Online Workshops
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

European Workshop Series on Usable Security
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

European Workshop on Usable Security
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Dagstuhl Seminar 19231: Empirical Evaluation of Security Development Processes
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

European Workshop on Usable Security
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

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

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

  • Security Lancaster
  • Security Lancaster (Software Security)
  • Security Lancaster (Systems Security)