Research areas and centres

Research Areas & Centres

Research Areas & Centres

Security Lancaster delivers research that innovates and creatively challenges the way that individuals, organisations, and societies secure and protect themselves. Our approach delivers the very best use-inspired and pure research that delivers real impact. 

Social Research Areas:

  • Societal Threats
  • Behavioural Science
  • Sociology
  • Privacy
  • Law, Policy, Ethics

Technical Research Areas:

  • Software
  • Distributed Systems
  • Systems Security
  • Networks
  • Digital Forensics

Centres:

  • CREST (Centre for Research and Evidence of Security Threats)
  • ACE-CSR (Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research)
Technical Research Areas: software, distributed systems, systems security, networks & digital forensics. Social research areas: Societal threats, behavioural science, sociology, privacy & Law, policy, Ethics. Research centres: Data-Centric SSS-H (Socio-Technical "Systems" Security Hub), CREST (Centre for Research and Evidence of Security Threats), ACE-CSR (Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research).

Societal Threats

Behavioural Science

Sociology

Privacy

Law, Policy, Ethics

Software Security

Distributed Systems

Systems Security

Networks

Digital Forensics

Threat intelligence data exchange hub (TIDE-H)

Dr Daniel Prince. Dr Benjamin Green, Dr Angelos Marnerides,

LANC TIDE-H: Lancaster's "Threat Intelligence Data Exchange Hub"

TIDE-H

Academia

Threats Dataset Repository for Academic Collaborations (iDID, H-UNIQUE, ICS, OS, Network, Social...)

Industry

Anonymized Sharing of Attacks & Threat Patterns (Banks, CIP...)

Government

Repository for Threatprofiles, Health DBs... (Police, GCHQ+ Intl., NHS...)

Virtual labs

Incubator Env. Tools/Testbeds/IPR/Best Practices...

Synergy: Data Sciences Institute, Secure Digitalization (SecureD @UEZ), Lancaster Technology Accelerator, Manchester/Lancashire CyberFoundry, Health Innovation Campus, Eden, EC CONCORDIA...

Find out more information about Our Outlook, Application Domains, Research Areas & TIDE-H:

Our Outlook, Research Areas, Application Domains & TIDE-H

Cyber Security Research Centre (ACEs-CSR)

Our work has been recognised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as one of the first eight Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACEs-CSR).

CREST

Delivering a world-class, interdisciplinary portfolio of activity maximising the value of behavioural and social science research to understanding, mitigating and countering threats to national security.

Manchester Cyber Foundry

The Cyber Foundry is a series of multi-million pound secure digitalisation projects that will help SMEs across both the Greater Manchester and Lancashire regions to Defend Innovate and Grow their businesses.

Lancashire Technology Accelerator

The Lancashire Technology Accelerator is a flagship accelerator programme in Lancashire for innovative technology companies.