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Dr Kris Stoddart

Associate Professor in Cyber Threats, Legal Studies

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k.d.stoddart@swansea.ac.uk

Basic Welsh Speaker

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4996-6482

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Kristan Stoddart is an Associate Professor for Cyber Threats in the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. Previously he was a Reader in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University where he was also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies. From 2014 to 2017 he worked on a project examining Cyber Security Lifecycles funded by Airbus Group and the Welsh Government and was a member of the UK’s Independent Digital Ethics in Policing Panel for around four years through to 2018.

He is a member of the Project on Nuclear Issues, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has spoken at a wide number of conferences, nationally and internationally, including NATO and US Strategic Command, and for various forms of media, including the BBC. He is the author or co-author of four books and many articles. He has recently completed two further books: Cyberwar: Threats to Critical Infrastructure, and its companion volume, Cyberespionage: Russian and Chinese uses against the West. A third, One Ring to Rule Them All? Comparative Studies of Cyber Security between States, is in preparation.

Areas Of Expertise

Cybersecurity
Cyberwarfare
Cyberespionage
Cyber terrorism
Cybercrime and the law
International security
Intelligence Studies
Nuclear weapons

Teaching Interests

Cybersecurity
Cyberwarfare
Cyberespionage
Cyber terrorism
Cybercrime
Cyber law
International security
Intelligence Studies
Nuclear weapons

Research

Kristan primarily works in the field of cyber security in areas which raise technical, strategic, legal, and political questions. His knowledge and engagement with this field includes wider related areas such as technical architecture, hardware and software, the uses and misuses of the Internet, Artificial Intelligence, privacy, lawfare, robotics, cybernetics and remote warfare. His main focus is on national/global policies, drawing on the technical base and the human layer.

From his PhD in 2006 through to 2014, he has primarily conducted research into global nuclear weapons issues and has published four books in this area. His work in both the nuclear weapons and cyber security fields also meet at the intersection with intelligence practises and Intelligence Studies.

Taught Modules

ASC100S Advanced Study Skills

This module is a non-credit bearing module and does not have an assessment. This module will be very helpful in supporting the academic development of students. Attendance will be monitored and all students are expected to fully engage with this positive and informative module. The sessions are open to students from all Criminology programmes.
ASC300S Advancing Professional Development

This module is a non-credit bearing module and does not have an assessment. This module will be very helpful in supporting the academic and professional development of students. The module is team-taught, and reflects staff members' very different professional expertise and backgrounds. Attendance will be monitored and all students are expected to fully engage with this positive and informative module. The sessions are open to students from all Criminology programmes.

Key Grants and Projects

SCADA Systems and Cyber Security Lifecycles 2014 - 2017

Principal Investigator, with Kevin Jones, Hugh Soulsby, Andrew Blyth., Peter Eden, Peter Burnap, and Yulia Cherdantseva, £1.2million

Public Engagements

‘Edward Snowden and You: Negotiating the Post 9/11 Surveillance State’. Hancock Symposium Westminster College, Missouri (Keynote lecture broadcast on the U.S. television channel C-Span) (2015) https://www.c-span.org/video/?328003-3/kristan-stoddart-government-surveillance-versus-privacy.

‘Winter Exercise’, BBC Radio 4 (2013) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lkmpy.

Information and advice given to BBC Horizon documentary ‘Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe’, broadcast 14 September 2011.

‘The Bomb, the Chancellor and Britain's Nuclear Secrets’, BBC Radio 4 (2011) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zdj01.

‘Post Nuclear Broadcasting’, BBC Radio 4 (2008) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20080128.shtml, and interview given to The Independent, ‘BBC’s dilemma over who would announce a nuclear attack’, 3 October 2008.

Kristan Stoddart was a board member of the Independent Digital Ethics in Policing Panel (IDEPP) - http://idepp.org/ - composed of senior figures from UK policing, UK intelligence agencies, the law, and civil society. IDEPP was an important hub for ethical issues arising from policing in the information age.

Kristan has given many invited talks over many years. In 2018 he was a keynote speaker at the Infrastructure Investors Forum Europe at Price Waterhouse Coopers in the City of London in January 2018 and at the Nordic Baltic Security Summit in March 2018. In November 2017 he was invited to the Cabinet Office to speak at the seminar ‘European security challenges in 2030’ and in February 2018 he submitted written evidence to the House of Lords International Relations Committee inquiry on ‘Foreign policy in changed world conditions’. In May-June 2018 he was a moderator and speaker at NATO’s premier cyber security conference, CyCon X in Tallinn.

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