Leadership Team

Basil Germond (Co-Director)

I am a Professor of International Security in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion. I am a seapower and maritime security expert. My research is cross-disciplinary and aims at understanding human, social and political interactions at, from, within, and with the sea. I favour mixed methods and approaches, ranging from corpus linguistics to content analysis to the application of IR theories.

My specific research interests cover the concept of seapower, maritime security, maritime strategy and geopolitics, the maritime/naval dimension of Global Britain, ocean governance, climate change dimensions in maritime security, and frontiers in IR. I have developed cross-disciplinary research within social sciences (e.g. linguistics, human geography) and beyond (e.g. marine sciences). My research on naval affairs and maritime security engages with, and informs, public policy stakeholders (Government and Parliament) as well as the wider public.

Email: b.germond@lancaster.ac.uk

Dan Prince (Co-Director)

I am a Professor in Security and Protection Science within the School of Computing and Communications. I specialise in Cyber Risk Management and Network Security in complex socio-technical systems, particularly cyber-physical systems and the financial services sector. I also work closely with organisations to help them understand the economic growth potential or cyber security.

My current cyber security research interests in several key areas; Cyber Risk Management in Complex Socio-Technical Systems and Cyber Physical Systems, with the latter primarily serving as a key problem domain for the former. The primary driver is to explore cyber security risk management concepts that move away from asset-centric approaches to include threat agent and effect-based frameworks. In addition, the applied domain of this work has moved to focus more on the financial services sector, with the addition of developing an understanding of the nature of cyber risks that lead to systemic issues.

Email: d.prince@lancaster.ac.uk

Nathan Jones - The Unsecurities Lab

Nathan is an artistic research practitioner with a particular interest in new media, language and publishing.

he has published and presented on conditions for language and literature in the context of artificial intelligence, glitch practices, and post-digital publishing. Exhibited works include experimental applications of speed readers and optical character recognition, recursive neural nets, VR-headsets and microfiche archival machines.

Nathan Jones