Dr Jason R. C. Nurse

Dr Jason Nurse is a Reader in Cyber Security at the University of Kent and a core member of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). He is also a Visiting Fellow in Defence and Security at Cranfield University, a Professional Member of the British Computing Society, and the Chair of the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS)’s Advisory Board.

Dr Nurse’s expertise is in investigating interdisciplinary approaches to enhance and maintain cybersecurity for organisations, governments, and individuals. This incorporates topics such as Cyber resilience, Cyber insurance, Cybersecurity culture and awareness, Cybercrime prevention and detection (specialising in psychological aspects and human factors), and Ransomware harms and cyber harms more broadly.

Within Dr Nurse’s work, he also explores topical online issues spanning online hacktivism, online extremism and radical groups, and the propagation of disinformation and misinformation online. This research often is grounded in computational social science, and therefore the application and use of artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches.

Prior to joining Kent in 2018, Jason was a Research Fellow in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford (2011-2018) and Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Warwick (2011-2013). For his research into the interdisciplinary aspects of Cyber, Dr Nurse was nominated as a Rising Star within the UK’s EPSRC RISE Awards Campaign. Jason holds a PhD from the University of Warwick in cyber security for organisations, an MSc (Dist.) from the University of Hull and a BSc (First) from the University of the West Indies.