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StrathCyber awarded Academic Centre of Excellence status

EDM (Early Day Motion) 553: tabled on 25 March 2024

Tabled in the 2023-24 session.

This motion has been signed by 7 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted.

Motion text

That this House acknowledges that StrathCyber, the Cyber Security Research Group at the University of Strathclyde has been granted Academic Centre of Excellence status from the Government; notes that this status was conferred by the Government's National Cyber Security Centre in recognition of the quality of the research and impact of the Strathclyde Centre; recognises that this makes the University of Strathclyde one of only 21 UK universities to have an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research; celebrates the interdisciplinary approach of StrathCyber in their research into digital resilience and digital harms and the extensive expertise of the research group in human factors, infrastructure security, privacy and regulation, system security, and formal methods; congratulates all academics, support staff and senior management involved with the StrathCyber project; and wishes them all the best in all future endeavours.