Activities

Grants

2022: Co-I: £3.4 million REPHRAIN Project: Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People during Life Transitions led by Prof Nishanth Sastry of University of Surrey.

2022: P-I: 30K NCSC Grant: Investigating Safety and Security Practices of those with Low Literacy

2021: P-I: 30K SPRITE Funded Grant: Revealing Young Learners’ Mental Models of Online Sludge

2020: P-I: 50K Scottish Government Grant: MUSTER: Moving bUsinesSes Towards cybEr Resilience

2020: P-I: 30K Cyber Nexus Grant: Teaching young children password best practice principles

Videos

 

Royal Academy of Engineering

Executive Summaries

Security Differently


Paper: Verena Zimmermann and Karen Renaud. Moving from a “Human-as-Problem” to a “Human-as-Solution” Cybersecurity Mindset. International Journal of Human Computer Studies. Volume 131, November 2019, Pages 169-187. Special Issue:50 Years of IJHCS.

Ethical Nudging


Paper: Karen Renaud and Verena Zimmermann. Ethical Guidelines for Nudging in Information Security & Privacy. International Journal of Human Computer Studies. Volume 120, December, Pages 22-35 2018

Intellectual Security and Cyber Security


Paper: Karen Renaud, Basie von Solms, Rossouw von Solms. How does Intellectual Capital Align with Cyber Security? Journal of Intellectual Capital. Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 621-641. 2019.

Other Videos


BJET Paper: The Role of Knowledge Visualisation in Supporting Postgraduate Dissertation Assessment


Regulating Children’s Access to Adult Content

Bits and Bobs


Outstanding Paper Award 2015 from Emerald


Working with Merrill Warkentin, MSU

Talks

  • 25th August: Keynote – ARES 2020
  • 26th August: Summer School, Strathclyde University
  • 1st Sept: Claverhouse Rotary Club
  • 18th Sept: Keynote – ESORICS SPOSE workshop
  • 21st Sept: 2020 Workshop on Human Centric Software Engineering and Cyber Security
  • 19 November 2019: People Behaving (In)Securely. Counter Fraud Services Conference. Haymarket, Edinburgh
  • 16 October 2019: Human-Centred Security Research at Mississippi State University as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. Mississippi State University TEDx.
  • 4 Sept 2019: Cyber Crime is a fact of life; no need to panic. University of Dundee Club for Former Members of Staff
  • 11 July 2019: What’s the Role of the End User in Cyber Security? Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • 24-25 March 2019: Rotary Group: CyberUK: You’re only Human, and that’s OK.
  • 27 March 2019: Rotary Group: Cyber Crime is a Fact of Life … but that’s ok
  • 11 March 2019: Monifeith Chamber of Commerce: What do you do with a problem like Cyber Security?
  • 17 January 2019: Graduate Women Scotland (East) Group
  • Christmas Piece in The Courier
  • 17 October 2018: Fulbright Cyber Security Panel, London
  • 20 September 2018: Stirling University. Title: The Ethics of Nudging In Information Privacy & Security
    Workshop on Applied Ethics of Nudging organised     by Philip Ebert and Conny Wollbrandt
  • 4 July 2018: Birmingham University. Title: A Software Engineer Ventures into Behavioural Economics Invited by Ganna Pogrebna
  • 30 June 2018: Fulbright TedX, Story Telling Centre, Edinburgh
  • 26 June 2018: Keynote, Conference on Public Sector Fraud, Edinburgh
  • 14 June 2018: Debate (Why Does Everything Get Hacked?) with John Moor and Chris Merritt as Moderator CloudFlare Internet Summit, London
  • 12 June 2018: Keynote, CyberSA Conference, Glasgow. Title: Getting REAL … about the Reasons for Insecure Behaviours
  • 25 May 2018: Talk to group at KIT, Karlsruhe
  • 8 May 2018: Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt
  • 24 April 2018: Glasgow Business Club, Ibrox, Glasgow
  • 14 March, 2018: Inaugural Address at Abertay. Title: “Cyber Security: Blame is not the Name of the Game”
  • August 2017: ISSA Conference, Johannesburg. Title: “Users Behave Insecurely.… Why Do they Do That?”
  • 18th December 2017: Amberg University. Title: “Mythbusting Common Beliefs about Security Behaviours”