Jason Nurse

Prof. Jason R.C. Nurse is a Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Kent and Early Career Researcher (ECR) Engagement Lead in the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). He is also a Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford, an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a Visiting Fellow in Defence and Security at Cranfield University, a SPRITE+ Expert Fellow, and a professional member of various associations relating to cyber security research and practice.

Prior to joining Kent in 2018, Prof. Nurse was a Senior Researcher in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford and before that, a Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Warwick. For his research into the interdisciplinary aspects of security, privacy and trust, Jason was nominated as a Rising Star within the UK’s EPSRC RISE Awards Campaign. Specifically, his research concentrates on investigating interdisciplinary approaches to enhance and maintain cyber security for organisations, individuals and governments. This often focuses on human individuals and users and how they interact with technologies.

For more about Jason, please visit his personal academic website here: jasonnurse.github.io

Professional Affiliations

• Visiting Academic in Computer Science at the University of Oxford
• Associate Fellow in Cyber at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
• Visiting Fellow in Defence and Security at Cranfield University
• Professional Member of the British Computer Society
• Research Member of Wolfson College Oxford
• Member of the Security Awareness Special Interest Group (SASIG)

Jason belongs to the following research groups:

• Cyber Security Group

His research focuses on the interaction between users and aspects of cyber security, privacy and trust. This considers the full spectrum of technologies in use today and encompasses topics such as:

• security and privacy in the internet of things (IoT) and social media (with an organisational and personal device focus)
• usable security as well as security awareness programmes in organisations and for the public
• technical and psychological aspects of cybercrime (e.g., insider threat, phishing susceptibility and ransomware)
• identity security and privacy risks in cyberspace (this also considers areas such as open-source intelligence)
• detection of fake news and rumours (or conversely, trustworthy content) on social media and
• corporate security in light of new forms of technology (e.g., IoT, wearables and cyber-insurance).

If you are interested in studying for a PhD in any of the topics above, please drop Jason a line.

Jason currently lecturers, or has lectured, on the following modules:

• 2025-2027 COMP5006 - Foundations of Cyber Security
• 2025-2026 COMP7029 - Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security
• 2025-2026 COMP7016 - Cybercrime and Adversarial Behaviours
• 2025-2026 COMP6005 - Information Security Management
• 2020-2025 COMP5580 - Introduction to Cyber Security
• 2018-2025 COMP8340 - Information Security Management
• 2018-2021 COMP6340 - Computer Security and Cryptography
• 2019-2020 COMP3280 - Human Computer Interaction

Editor for several prestigious journals including: Journal of Cybersecurity (JCS), Computers & Security (C&S), Digital Threats: Research and Practice (ACM-DTRAP). Programme committee member and/or reviewer for various journals/conferences including Local Chair for the 17th IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA), General Chair for the 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Reviewer for Journal of Cybersecurity (JCS), Computers & Security (C&S), Computers in Human Behavior (CHB), Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), IEEE Access, International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), British Human Computer Interaction Conference (BCS-HCI), World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE), Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security (STAST), International Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats (MIST) (associated with ACM CCS), Workshop on Research for Insider Threat (WRIT) (associated with IEEE S&P), International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo), Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), and European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE).