School of Computing News

The School of Computing is delighted to offer a new PhD studentship entitled ‘Reliable by construction distributed systems: a toolchain for development and testing‘. We are inviting applications for a PhD scholarship in relation to the EPSRC UK project ‘Session Types for Reliable Distributed Systems‘ (STARDUST). The key idea of STARDUST is to combine the communicati...

Dr Jason Nurse, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at the School of Computing and Public Engagement Lead of Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), has been interviewed by BBC Radio 4 about the recent cyber attack on Manchester United Football Club. It was reported that on Friday 20 November the club was hit by a sophisticated cyber attack, resulting in staff being locked out of emails and security...

On Wednesday 18 November 2020, three researchers from Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) joined other UK researchers in signing an open letter to the UK Charity Sector. Dr Virginia Franqueira, Professor Shujun Li and Professor David Chadwick, signed the open letter which was written in response to a recent report published by ProPrivacy on the widespread use ...

A group of Kent researchers led by Dr Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou of The Tizard Centre (part of the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research) have been awarded £209,703 from NIHR School of Social Care Research to carry out an interdisciplinary research project looking at internet use and online safety for people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID). Professor Michelle M...

Professor Shujun Li, Professor of Cyber Security at the School of Computing and Director of Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), has contributed to Dr Jessica Barker's best-selling book: Confident Cyber Security. Dr Jessica Barker is a renowned cyber security expert in the human nature of cyber security, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Cygenta and a member ...

Dr Jason Nurse, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at the School of Computing and Public Engagement Lead of Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security, will give a talk about his latest research at the Sophos Evolve Cyber Security Summit taking place on Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th November 2020. Sophos is a UK-based cyber security company and big name in enterprise and personal security suite products. Jaso...

A cyber security expert from Kent's School of Computing has welcomed the news that WhatsApp plans to introduce a 'disappearing messages' function that will erase chats from the phone of both the sender and recipient after seven days. Professor Shujun Li said: 'This is definitely a good new feature to help improve the privacy-friendliness of WhatsApp. Too many people especially young p...

The School of Computing has employed two students as Employability Ambassadors to help raise awareness of employability events and opportunities and mentor students looking for placements, across both Medway and Canterbury campuses. Kierran Murrell did his placement year at Hiscox Underwriting Ltd and is working in the Kent IT Consultancy in his final year. He said “On my placement  I learned how to manage work backlogs and processes in a mod...

Dr Jim Ang, who recently joined the School of Computing from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, joined BBC Radio Kent to discuss the social benefits of gaming and how it could bring the family together during the pandemic. Dr Jim said “many games are now designed to have a social element to get people together to talk and do stuff together and do imaginary things in a shared world” He discussed how gami...

Joining a society as both a member and committee member can significantly enhance your university experience and your employability. Make sure to watch our Online Societies Fair to find out more about the benefits involved. There are several societies related to computing and technology that you can join. The Computing Society is available to students in both Medway and Canterbury.  If you'd like to join the Computing Society, please cont...