Security and risk blog

Ukraine: Russia boasts of its precision missiles – so why are hospitals being destroyed? In Ukraine, the World Health Organization had identified 82 Russian military attacks on Ukrainian healthcare facilities by April 4.

05 April 2022 Professor Peter Lee 6 min read

Professor Peter Lee writes for The Conversation on how despite Russia boasting about the capabilities of its precision-guided missiles, there has been 82 Russian military attacks on Ukrainian healthcare facilities

How tech is driving new forms of domestic abuse Perpetrators of domestic abuse are increasingly exploiting digital tools to coerce and control their victims

22 February 2022 Dr Lisa Sugiura 6 min read

Dr Lisa Sugiura writes for The Conversation on how perpetrators of domestic abuse are increasingly exploiting digital tools to coerce and control their victims

Ukraine: how cyber-attacks became so important to the conflict Russia has been deploying military forces on Ukraine’s borders, however, there is another escalating conflict: cyber-attacks on Ukrainian government and business websites and services

17 February 2022 Dr Vasileios Karagiannopoulos 7 min read

Dr Vasileios Karagiannopoulos writes for The Conversation on the rise in cyber attacks on Ukraine as part of Russia’s current hostility

Prison numbers set to rise 24 per cent in England and Wales – it will make society less safe, not more Evidence shows increasing the prison rate is likely to have a negative effect on wider society. It goes against the approach many other countries are taking to reduce their prison populations

30 November 2021 Professor Francis Pakes 7 min read

Professor Francis Pakes writes for The Conversation on the predicted rise of the sentenced prison population, and the negative effect it will likely have on wider society

Facebook will drop its facial recognition system – but here's why we should be sceptical Facial recognition systems, like Facebook’s, identify people by matching faces to digital representations of faces stored on a database. Facebook has more than a billion of these representations on file but now says it will delete them

10 November 2021 Dr Stavros Shiaeles 8 min read

Dr Stavros Shiaeles writes for The Conversation on Facebook's announcement that it will stop using its facial recognition system, and why there is reason to be cautious of this

Online critical literacy during a Pandemic Dr Annie Kirby and Shakiba Moghadam discuss how building resilience to online threats can help us safeguard our assets and protect our friends and families.

13 October 2021 9 min read

Arming the Philippines: It’s a Duterte job, but does Britain have to do it? Dr Tom Sykes writes for Declassified UK on the outcomes of Duterte’s authoritarian regime.

19 August 2021 Dr Tom Sykes 6 min read

Thousands of people have been killed in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte, but the UK has massively increased arms exports to his authoritarian regime.

‘Scambaiting’: why the vigilantes fighting online fraudsters may do more harm than good Fraud has reached “epidemic” levels in the UK over the past 12 months, costing up to £190 billion a year and constituting a “national security threat” in need of an urgent institutional response

21 June 2021 Professor Mark Button 7 min read

Professor Mark Button writes for The Conversation on why vigilantes fighting online fraud are controversial and may do more harm than good

Lockdown 3: stricter rules could lead to more vulnerable people going missing While many missing people are found quickly or return voluntarily, some do come to emotional, physical and sexual harm, including self-harm

21 January 2021 Mr Craig Collie 6 min read

A third lockdown could result in more vulnerable people going missing and being exposed to dangerous situations

New grant to study the Sahel crisis Researchers receive £50,000 grant to study one of the worst humanitarian crises

15 December 2020 6 min read

Researchers from the the Centre for European and International Studies Research receive £50,000 grant to study one of the worst humanitarian crises.