National leadership

Shaping how the UK teaches cyber security

I advise government and professional bodies on the standards, skills and pathways that sit behind cyber security education, and I direct a centre that puts them into practice.

• 2026 to now
  NCSC-GCHQ Advisory Panel on Cyber Security Education. Advising on how NCSC-certified degrees are assessed, how the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK) shapes curricula, and the criteria for future ACE-CSE recognition.
• 2025 to now
  Home Office Academic Working Group, Online Crime Centre. Academic expert to the Home Office and the National Crime Agency-led centre.
• 2025
  West Midlands Cyber Steering Group (DSIT). Regional oversight of the Cyber Local programme and its £1.3m funding.
• Community
  Lead, UK digital forensics teaching and learning community. I lead the organising committee of Teaching Digital Forensics, the national gathering for people who teach and research digital forensics in UK universities, now in its 21st annual workshop. teachingdigitalforensics.org
• 2024 to now
  Adviser, UK Cyber Security Council. Academic Lead at inception of the first chartered professional pathway for cyber security academics in the UK, convening 21 experts from industry, government and academia, and I continue to advise the Council.
• 2022 to now
  Director, ACE-CSE, University of Warwick. The UK's largest Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education. Industrial advisors from Deloitte, IBM and GCHQ.
• 2024 to now
  Information Security and Data Protection Committee, University of Warwick.