CPD & Teaching
Supervision and courses delivered by group members.
Taught Courses
We can offer a set of courses and taught opportunities for stakeholders who may benefit from our team know-how on Digital Harms. The world of Digital Harms is vast and the needs may differ based on the stakeholder. We can offer ad-hoc opportunities that can be agreed based on our availability and the stakeholders needs. If you wish to contact us because you are interested in taught opportunities, use the Stay in Touch page for how to get in contact.
CPD offers
Principles of Cybersecurity
This CPD course goes through the basic principles of cybersecurity, how to evaluate the threats and risks of online and interconnected systems and managing them. Senior managers without technical security background have an opportunity to develop their knowledge and interact with the company security department.
Artificial Intelligence and cybercrime
This CPD course goes through the challenges and the opportunities that AI has enabled for cybercriminals as well as the security community at large. This module is for those who want to understand more about the security mindset and how AI affects the cyberworld.
University Taught Courses
Applied data science
This module teaches data science applied to crime research to postgraduate students.
Programming for Crime Scientists
This module teaches Python to first year undergraduate students with examples and projects applied to crime research.
Introduction to Cybersecurity
This module teaches the principles of cybersecurity, risk assessment, and threat modelling online to postgraduate non computer scientists.
Theses & Projects
Available Projects
If you are interested in doing a dissertation, final-year project, or internship with the group, please see the Stay in Touch page for how to get in contact. Current available projects will be listed below when available.
Past Projects
These are previous projects that we supervised and worked towards as part of our teaching duties.
- "Guaranteed risk-free returns!": detecting and analysing cryptocurrency investment scams on TikTok
- Why do users join online pile-ons? A qualitative study of the social psychological mechanisms underpinning collective cyber violence in public social media comment sections