Security and Protection Science

Security and Protection Science is an exciting initiative launched by Lancaster University to grow our world class interdisciplinary academic capability to help keep nations and citizens safe and secure as cyber emerges as an essential domain in global protection strategies. Through a £19m investment, the University is seeking creative and disruptive individuals to tackle the full range of societal and technological security challenges to support of the rapidly growing North West Cyber Corridor.

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Security and Protection Science at Lancaster

Security and Protection Science builds on Lancaster's credentials as a world leader in cyber security and protection science, with its cross-disciplinary expertise recognised through being one of only a handful of universities nationally to be identified by the National Cyber Security Centre as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research and Cyber Security Education.

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Join Our New Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Group at the Data Science Institute! 

Are you passionate about promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in data science and AI? Do you want to help create a more inclusive and equitable environment at the Data Science Institute (DSI)? We’re launching a new ED&I group to address these vital issues—and we’d love for you to be a part of it. 
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Cyber Security Executive MBA shortlisted for innovation strategy award

Lancaster University Management School has been shortlisted for the Best Innovation Strategy 2025 award at the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2025 for its Cyber Security Executive MBA programme (CEMBA) delivered in partnership with Templar Executives.
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Dead Man’s PLC: A new cyber threat in the industrial world?

Researchers at Orange Cyberdefence collaborate with Lancaster’s School of Computing and Communications to outline the possibility of a new way cyber criminals could target systems crucial to the functioning of industry-based systems.
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Data Science and Cyber Security Master's Poster Exhibition

Over 100 students, academics, and project hosts gathered in Infolab for the annual Master's Poster Conference. Once again, there was an extremely impressive range of posters on display, which demonstrated the projects that the students had performed across many areas of data science and cyber security.
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Securing Tomorrow: International event addresses the challenges of evolving threats

Global experts are convening in Lancaster at the very first international conference on natural language processing and artificial intelligence for cyber security (NLPAICS 2024).
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Prestigious cyber award for Lancaster University spinout Mindgard

Lancaster University spinout company Mindgard has won the award for the ‘UK’s Most Innovative Cyber SME 2024’ at Infosecurity Europe 2024.

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Events

3rd Dec

MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science (FLiSS): meet the team (LAEL students)

Tuesday 3 December 2024, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
3rd Dec

MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science (FLiSS): meet the team

Tuesday 3 December 2024, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
11th Apr

Cybernetic Culture Workshop: Consumption, Security & Society in the Digital Age

Friday 11 April 2025, 9:00am to 5:00pm

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