DEFENCE AND SECURITY PSYCHOLOGY IN A
CHANGING WORLD ANNUAL CONFERENCETUESDAY 4 MAY 2021, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
SPEAKERS
We are delighted to announce our three Keynote Speakers for the Defence and Security Section Annual Conference 2021.
Professor Emma Parry
Understanding the future workforce: what does the changing world of work mean for UK Defence?
Professor Parry will discuss her ongoing research that examines the changing nature of work, the workplace and the workforce and the implications of this for UK Defence in relation to recruitment, retention and engagement with society. She will draw on research undertaken on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and her wider work that examines the future of work and workforce attitudes more broadly.
Emma Parry is Professor of Human Resource Management and Head of the Changing World of Work Group at Cranfield School of Management. Her expertise focuses on the impact of the changing external context on work, the workplace and the workforce and the implications for managing people. In particular, she is interested in the influence of national context, technological advancement and workforce demographics. She has spent the past 18 years undertaking research within the Ministry of Defence. Emma is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Employment Studies (IES). She has published several books and numerous papers in academic journals and practice-based publications.
Professor Emma Barrett
Trust and betrayal in an uncertain world
Emma Barrett OBE is Professor of Psychology, Security and Trust at University of Manchester and the University's strategic lead for Digital Trust and Security. Her role involves leading and coordinating security-relevant research, with a particular emphasis on digital contexts. Her research interests include criminal behaviour; decision-making; betrayal, deception, and interpersonal manipulation; and human performance in extreme and challenging conditions. Emma is Director of SPRITE+, the EPSRC NetworkPlus [ https://spritehub.org ] for security, privacy, identity, and trust which fosters collaborations between academics, industry, government, and civil society.
Before joining UoM in March 2018, Emma was Research to Practice Fellow at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST www.crestresearch.ac.uk ) at Lancaster University, leading efforts to ensure that CREST’s research activities focused on end user requirements, and fostering strong links between academics and stakeholders. From 2003-2015, she led a UK Government research unit that developed and applied behavioural, psychological, and social science research to a range of security and defence issues.
Emma completed her doctorate in Psychology at the University of Birmingham. She also holds a MSc in Investigative Psychology, a Conversion Diploma in Psychology, and a BSc in Anthropology. She is the co-author of Extreme: Why some people thrive at the limits (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Professor Debi Ashenden
Debi holds the DST Group-University of Adelaide Chair in Cybersecurity. In addition, she is Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Portsmouth and a visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. Debi’s research interests are in the social and behavioural aspects of cybersecurity – particularly in finding ways of ‘patching with people’ as well as technology. She is currently researching the socio-technical aspects of cyber deception and secure software development, as well as exploring the implications of algorithmic decision-making.
Debi was previously Head of the Centre for Cyber Security at Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the UK and was a member of the UK MOD’s Defence Science Expert Committee. She has worked extensively across the public and private sector for organisations such as UK MOD, GCHQ, Cabinet Office, Home Office, Euroclear, Prudential, Barclaycard, Reuters and Close Bros. She has had a number of articles on cyber security published, presented at a range of conferences and co-authored a book for Butterworth Heinemann, Risk Management for Computer Security: Protecting Your Network & Information Assets.
Title: Using Design Thinking to Fuse Behavioural Science with Cyber Deception
As the military moves to a manoeuvre approach and away from relying on a defeat level of force, success depends less on preparing solely for a zero-sum game through more efficient kinetic warfare, and more on understanding how to achieve a desired effect. Cyber deception tools offer one way of achieving an effect in the network domain and while they are increasingly sophisticated, they rely on a limited set of deception techniques. In current deployments of cyber deception, the network infrastructure between the defender and attacker comprises the defence/attack surface. For cyber deception tools to evolve further they must address the wider attack surface; from the network through to the physical and cognitive space. This talk outlines a pilot project that has kick-started a three-year project funded by the Defence Science and Technology Group in Australia. The pilot project explored using design thinking to bring deception experts from different backgrounds together to start to develop ways to fuse deception techniques that could be deployed on a network. In the course of discussing the project this talk will also address the use of design thinking and transdisciplinary research in defence.
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