Professor Phil Legg

• Qualifications:Ph.D. B.Sc. FHEA MCIIS
• Position:Professor in Cyber Security
• Department:School of Computing and Creative Technologies
• Telephone:+441173282880
• Email:Phil.Legg@uwe.ac.uk
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About me

Phil Legg is a Professor of Cyber Security at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), in recognition of "Advancing Teaching and Learning" and "Research with Impact". He is the Co-Director of UWEcyber, a Gold Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) as recognised by the National Cyber Security Centre. He is the Cyber Security research theme lead within the Computer Science Research Centre (CSRC) at UWE. He has also served in Programme Leadership roles, including leading the NCSC-certified MSc Cyber Security course at UWE (2018-2024), and more recently, joining the Programme Leadership team for the BSc Cyber Security and Digital Forensics programme at UWE (2024-) to support on industry partnership and external engagement.

He serves as a member of the UK Government Cyber Advisory Board (GCAB). He is a Full Member (MCIIS) of the Chartered Institution of Information Security (CIISEC). He is also a member of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC).

His main research interests consider the intersection of cyber security across data analytics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and visualisation, to make most effective use of data to inform decision-making and risk modelling in security, whilst also preventing the misuse of data across human and machine-driven processes. He has led collaborative multi-disciplinary research projects working with various government, industry, and military departments, as well as leading industry-sponsored doctoral research supervisions. 

He is passionate about outreach and works closely with schools and colleges across the region to upskill in cyber security education, and he is a founding member of CSE Connect - a collaboration network across academia, industry and government to support all levels of cyber security education. 

Prior to joining UWE in 2015, he worked at the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and Cisco Systems Ltd as part of the Corporate Insider Threat Detection research programme. He also held post-doctoral research posts at Swansea University and Cardiff University, as well as completing both his PhD Computer Science, and his BSc Computer Science from Cardiff University.

He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning for Higher Education (Distinction), and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He has various industry certifications including CompTIA SecurityX, PenTest+, Security+ and Microsoft certifications.

For the latest details on projects, publications and resources, please see my web page: https://pa-legg.github.io

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