CDT Student PhD Research Projects
The richness of our student cohort diversity is echoed in our students' research interests and their PhD projects. The connecting factor is that they use their different skills and knowledge to improve, through cyber security, the safety of the inter-connected world that we all inhabit. We believe that our diverse, cohort-based approach to PhDs leads to creativity, exciting research and increased impact, and we’re always looking for more people to join us.
As a Cyber Security CDT student, you have the opportunity to conduct world leading research with support from the researchers from our college of supervisors.
2019 CDT Research Projects
- Improving User Privacy in Mobile and Ubiquitous Health Technologies
- Provenance-based Forensic and Incident Analysis
- Empowering users to navigate untrustworthy online information ecosystems to reach factual information
- Security habits: designing an at-scale intervention for security fatigue
2020 CDT Research Projects
- Developer Centered Privacy: A framework to support software developers in implementing privacy features
- A Multiplatform Multimodal Machine Learning Based Study of Misinformation Online
- Exploring the content and development of conspiracy narratives in online environments
- Domestic Violence in the Digital Age: Investigating the Role of Smart Home Technologies
- Digital Forensic Readiness for Hyper-Connected Critical Infrastructure
- Cryptanalysis of Isogeny-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography
- The astropolitics of cyber attacks against global navigation satellite systems
- Data Deletion in Machine Learning
- Why Should We Focus on Higher-dimensional Crptography?
- Cascading Effects of Cyber-attacks on Interconnected Critical Infrastructure
- Role of urban digital twins in understanding risks to large scale cyber-physical infrastructure and their stakeholders
2021 CDT Research Projects
- Usable Sandboxing for Embedded Operating Systems
- Investigating the potential threats posed to Smart Cities by the emergent capabilities of Quantum Technologies
- Determining the Optimal Level of Cyber Security Investment
- The impact of Machine Learning Security on the resilience of Connected Autonomous Vehicle Architectures
- A mixed methods exploration of the motivations for, and impact of, Digital Identity Concealment
- Anticipatory Cybersecurity: Studying Governance Narratives of Technological Innovations to Build a Foundation for a Futures Framework
- Investigating crowdsourced digital activism and the security threats these actions pose
- Constructing a holistic view of cyber incident response using Systems Thinking and re-imaging its future using creative methodologies
- 3Ds of Dark Patterns
- The Private Sector in Cyberspace: Threats and Risks to International (In)Security
- Medium Interactivity Operational Technology Honeypots for Threat Intelligence
2022 CDT Research Projects
- Practical post-quantum lattice-based non-interactive key exchange
- Cybersecurity at the edge: Researching the privacy and security dimensions of indigenous cyberactivism in Ecuador
- Investigating the balance of privacy versus security in a family environment
- Advancing Secure and Private Communication: A Post-Quantum Mix-Net Approach
- Linguistic Anomaly Detection at Scale
- Wearable Sensors. What Happens to the Data?
- Examining Cybersecurity Imaginaries through Fiction
- Dynamic Risk Assessment for Critical Infrastructures