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Dr Kris Stoddart

Associate Professor in Cyber Threats, Politics, Philosophy and International Relations

Telephone number

+44 (0) 1792 602749

Welsh language proficiency

Basic Welsh Speaker
Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Kristan Stoddart is an Associate Professor for Cyber Threats in the School of Social Sciences as well as working with the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. At Swansea he is a member of the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC). 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 was a PI on a £1.2 million 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 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2022 he was also made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

He has spoken at a wide number of conferences, nationally and internationally, including NATO, GCHQ, and US Strategic Command, and for various forms of media, including the BBC. He is the author or co-author of five books and over 25 articles and book chapters. He has recently completed three further books: Cyberwar: Threats to Critical Infrastructure (Palgrave/Springer, 2022). Two others are in the publication pipeline: Russia’s cyber offensive against the West, and China and its embrace of offensive cyber espionage.

In addition, he is engaged in a research project examining EU resilience to hybrid warfare funded by the European Union.

Areas Of Expertise

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

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberwarfare
  • Cyberespionage
  • Cyber terrorism
  • Cybercrime
  • Cyber law
  • International security
  • Intelligence Studies
  • Nuclear weapons
Research