Cybercrime Summer School

The 9th Strathclyde International Perspectives on Cybercrime Summer School will run 24th-28th August 2026 at the University of Strathclyde with a research symposium on Monday 24th August. Registration is open. Students (PhD, MSc, UG), practitioners, and academics were welcome to register. We have some sponsored places available from RISCS and SIPR, please fill in the application form if you would like to apply for a sponsored place. SPRITE+ are sponsoring up to 5 places and travel costs for UK PhD students (sign up for free SPRITE+ membership and fill in the form). We are also grateful to CRANE for sponsoring travel costs for early career researcher speakers to attend.

The 8th Strathclyde International Perspectives on Cybercrime Summer School ran Monday 25th-Friday 29th August 2025 at the University of Strathclyde with a research symposium on Monday 25th August.

The interdisciplinary summer school is jointly organised by the University of Strathclyde, Scotland; Simon Fraser University, Canada; OTH Amberg-Weiden, Germany; OTH Regensburg, Germany; and HAW Kiel, Germany. Organisers: Daniel R. Thomas, Frazer Sandison, George Weir, Richard Frank, Patrick Levi, Sebastian Fischer, Andreas Aßmuth, Jide Edu, Ali Farooq, and Lindah Sawe.

Details of the 8th edition in 2025 and 7th edition in 2024 are still available.

2026 sponsors

SPRITE+ Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust, Engagement, NetworkPlus logo

RISCS Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security logo

SIPR | Scottish Institute for Policing Research (logo)

Text: CRANE strenghtening the Cyber Security research community. With logo showing a stylised crane bird with some digital circut board wires trailing through its wings

Information for participants

Attendees of the summer school should bring their own laptops with them for the practical sessions. The schedule will be posted below in due course. See the pages for previous editions of the conference for an idea of what it will look like. We plan to add a couple of optional social events to the schedule this year based on last year's feedback, including visiting City Chambers on Monday evening following the research symposium day. This year's summer school will include workshops on phishing, security protocols & threat models, and open source intelligence along with research talks and lectures on a wide range of cybercrime and cybersecurity topics from a range of disciplinary perspectives from national and international speakers.