Bath has one of the UK's most successful applied digital behaviour and security research groups. The newly formed Bath Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour (IDSB) has over 50 academic staff, postdoctoral researchers, postgraduate research students across 3 faculties​. We take a “whole of society” approach to understanding challenges and opportunities associated with digital technologies. ​

​Our research is organised around five themes:

• online safety and harms
• global politics of security and technology
• emerging and future technologies
• human, economic and organisational aspects of cyber security
• digital data and national security

The team holds or partners on significant research grants including ESRC Discribe Hub+, a groundbreaking arts and social science-led Digital Security by Design (DSbD) research hub; a joint (with UoBristol) EPSRC Centre in Doctoral Training in Cyber Security; and a partner in the national centre for online safety (REPHRAIN). Bath leads on human-centred design work for the UKRI AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) Research Hub.

The IDSB leverages and combines Bath's unique expertise in social and data science as applied to security, to create a single front door for interdisciplinary academic research and collaboration with government and industry. Through doing so we hope to help make the UK a more innovative, safe and resilient digital society, to develop the next generation of experts in digital security and behaviour and to advance the UK as a global leader in this doman.