Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime

The 6th Winter Economic Crime Symposium, held on 16th January 2025, brought together experts, researchers and practitioners from across the globe to address the growing threat of fraud. Eight speakers from seven countries discussed a variety of topics linked to organised and cross-border fraud. These speakers, along with hundreds of registered delegates, explored key methods of these crimes and underlying policing landscape. READ MORE...

The Symposium was supported by the Journal of Economic Criminology and the International Society of Economic Criminology. To be informed about future public lectures and other events, please subscribe to our mailing list.

The 13th Counter Fraud, Cybercrime and Forensic Accounting Conference was held in-person at the University of Portsmouth over two days on Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th June 2024.

This year’s conference featured keynote and plenary speakers including:

• Professor Rutger Leukfeldt (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and Center of Expertise Cybersecurity, Hague University of Applied Sciences)
• Oleksiy Feshchenko (former advisor to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
• Professor Durgesh Pandey (Professor of Practice, National Forensic Sciences University, India)
• Andrei Skorobogatov and Ayesha Babar (Home Office, International Fraud)
• Chris Freeman and Michael Betts (Public Sector Fraud Authority)
• Cyber Crime Unit, National Crime Agency

In addition to the above, over 30 speakers from across the globe shared their research and expertise on a range of topics including Online Harms, Victims of Fraud, Anti-Fraud Technology, Cybersecurity and Hacking, Digital Threats, Telecommunication Frauds, Beneficial Ownership, Fraud Investigation, Government Responses to Fraud, Fraud Detection, Organised and Environmental Crime, and Auditing.

The aim of the conference was to network, share our research and insights into techniques, ideas, or approaches that help to inform fellow scholars and professionals on important debates in the field of cybercrime, economic crime and forensic accounting.

The 5^th Winter Economic Crime Symposium was held online on 18^th January 2024, organised by Dr Branislav Hock, of the Economic Crime Research Group. The event featured sessions on Economic Crime in War and Exploring UK government initiatives to tackle economic crime, bringing together a diverse body of researchers, practitioners, students and other community members. The keynote speech, on Economic Crime and War Crimes, was delivered by Professor Noelle Quenivet, from the University of the West of England. The full programme including speaker biographies is available here.

The Symposium was supported by the Journal of Economic Criminology.

CCEC recently co-hosted the 2024 Annual Terrorism and Extremism Colloquium with the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism (WG-Extreme). The colloquium included panels on ideologies in online extremist dynamics, extreme misogyny, the methodological challenges of researching online extremism, pathways and recruitment into extremism, incels, conspiracy theories and emerging technologies, ethics and reflexivity and an early career researcher symposium. The keynote speech, on Navigating the Challenges of Researching Online Extremism, was delivered by Jokob Guhl, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. 

The 12th Counter Fraud, Cybercrime and Forensic Accounting Conference, which took place on 14th and 15th June 2023, was hosted for the first time by the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime and was a huge success, welcoming over 300 in-person and online delegates from across the globe, with over 50 speakers sharing their research and expertise. Over 60 organisations were represented, including higher education, banking and financial services, government agencies, law enforcement, crime prevention, technology, research, insurance and loss adjusting, accounting, law and auditing. Read more…

The Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime recently launched a series of online “fireside chats” – discussions between Centre co-directed Dr Vasileios Karagiannopoulos and industry leaders from the fields of cybersecurity, risk management and governance/compliance, sharing their insights regarding topical issues and associated challenges they are facing and that have a wider impact for the UK, its businesses and citizens.

For our first session we welcomed Onur Korucu (Managing Partner and Advisory Board Member of Govern ID, a WomenTech Global Ambassador and Council Member and International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Ireland Chapter Chair) for a fascinating discussion about  digital transformation of the EU and its impact on the UK. The event was recorded and you can watch the video here. If you would like to be kept informed of the date and time of our next fireside chat, please subscribe to our mailing list.

Centre co-director Professor Mark Button delivered a public lecture at the University of Portsmouth on 16 October 2024, discussing the fraud epidemic, who is responsible and what can be done about it. To be informed about future public lectures and other events, please subscribe to our mailing list.