The Security Research Group comes together as a collaboration of scholars operating across many discipline areas in TU Dublin with a central focus on security research. The group recognises that security exists as a complex societal challenge resulting from a diverse origins such as climate change, biological threats and vulnerabilities, terror threats to critical infrastructure, pollution and food chain risks, international and domestic crime and disorder, communication and business technology vulnerabilities. The group brings together colleagues from across disciplines ranging from philosophy, engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, sociology, history and criminology.
The Group will have a national and international research agenda and will act as a platform for producing high quality research and for attracting research talent. The Group will also provide a vehicle for attracting national and international research funding. The Group will initially comprise TU based researchers together with the support and guidance of national and international collaborators. The Group will focus on a variety of research areas that includes:
- Civil security and disaster resilience
- Crime prevention in urban and rural settings
- Cybercrime, cybersecurity – technological and geo-political aspects
- Privacy
- Surveillance technologies, law and ethics
- Police governance, national and international comparisons
- Security fields in international comparative perspective
- Terrorism, radicalisation and extremism – analytics and prevention
- Critical infrastructure security threats to essential services and data centres
- Ethical technological practices (self, other and institution)
- Ethics and the use of force
- Equality and Diversity in security outcomes, and in security organisations
- Ireland’s defence and intelligence readiness
- Security of business strategy and technologies