Contact Jeremy Hilton
- Email: j.c.hilton@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Areas of expertise
- Safety, Resilience, Risk & Reliability
- Systems Engineering
Background
Originally qualified as a design engineer with Courtaulds Engineering Ltd, was commissioned in the Army for 12 years. After sub-unit command, worked in industry specialising in information security and organisational design, running a consulting practice for 10 years. After roles in defence, health, oil and postal services, became a lecturer in Information Systems at Cardiff University. Whilst there, helped create the BSc in Information Systems and the MSc in Information Security and Privacy and was PI for one JISC- and 2 EPSRC-funded research projects.
Experienced in the application of systems methods and tools to complex systems including organisations and secure IT operations. Supported the redesign, the development of business architecture and process improvement for a major government department, was interim Head of Information Security for The Post Office, was system manager for a classified MOD site in Germany, supported two major commercial PKI implementations, and responsible for establishing and operating a commercial PKI business in Sweden.
Qualifications:
Chartered Engineer
Chartered IT Professional
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
BSc Mechanical Engineering
MSc Design of Information System
Research opportunities
Currently involved in a number of areas of research covering multiple systems methods, public health, complex systems governance, and resilient organisations.
Current activities
Senior Lecturer in Complex Systems where his research is focused on bringing together ways of gaining insight into complexity, integrating systems thinking approaches from many disciplines that include engineering, management science, anthropology, psychiatry, systems science, biology, social science and architecture. He supervises a range of MSc, MPhil and PhD students and is Course Director for the Apprenticeship and MSc in Systems Thinking Practice.
Conducts research and consultancy in systems thinking methods and tools, applied in the Defence and other industrial, government and academic sectors. The focus is on enabling effective organisations and decision-making, decision support, resilience and Cyber/Information security.
He is a PI on the GroundsWell 5-year Research programme on the use of Urban Green and Blue Spaces to reduce non-communicable diseases where he leads the work package to develop a systems framework and established the governance structure for consortium with a systems approach.
Clients
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Atomic Weapons Establishment
- NHS
- Nationwide Building Society
- European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
- Ministry of Defence
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Hunter R, Garcia L, Clewley N, Hafezi M & Hilton J. (2023). 5 year public health impacts of an urban greenway, Belfast, Northern Ireland: Causal Loop Diagram. European Journal of Public Health, 33(Supplement_2)
- Hunter RF, Rodgers SE, Hilton J, Clarke M, Garcia L, .... (2022). GroundsWell: Community-engaged and data-informed systems transformation of Urban Green and Blue Space for population health – a new initiative. Wellcome Open Research, 7
- Zucca C, Long E, Hilton J & McCann M. (2021). Appraising the Implementation of Complexity Approaches Within the Public Health Sector in Scotland. An Assessment Framework for Pre-Implementation Policy Evaluation. Frontiers in Public Health, 9
- Cherdantseva Y, Hilton J, Rana O & Ivins W. (2016). A multifaceted evaluation of the reference model of information assurance & security. Computers & Security, 63
- Lewis P & Hilton J. (2015). A Statistical Analysis of Vulnerability Discovery: Microsoft Operating Systems. Engineering & Technology Reference
- Hilton J. (2009). Improving the secure management of personal data: Privacy on-line IS important, but it's not easy. Information Security Technical Report, 14(3)
- Rana O & Hilton J. (2006). Securing the virtual organization, Part 2 – Grid computing in action. Network Security, 2006(5)
- Rana O & Hilton J. (2006). Securing the virtual organization – Part 1: Requirements from Grid computing. Network Security, 2006(4)
Conference Papers
- Clewley N, Forsyth T, Dodd L & Hilton J. (2022). A framework for systems thinking practice
- Hilton J. (2021). Relating the cultural iceberg to organisations and information warfare
- Hilton J, Riley T & Wright C. (2013). Using multiple perspectives to design resilient systems for agile enterprises
- Hilton J, Riley T, Mactaggart I & Wright C. (2013). Improving decision-making and management by thinking about the enterprise through multiple dimensions
- Cherdantseva Y & Hilton J. (2013). A Reference Model of Information Assurance & Security
- Alsalamah S, Gray WA, Hilton J & Alsalamah H. (2013). Information security requirements in patient-centred healthcare support systems
- Wright C, Kiparoglou V, Williams M & Hilton J. (2012). A Framework for Resilience Thinking
- Burnap PR, Spasic I, Gray WA, Hilton JC, Rana OF, .... (2012). Protecting patient privacy in distributed collaborative healthcare environments by retaining access control of shared information
- Hilton J, Wright C & Kiparoglou V. (2012). Building resilience into systems
- Alsalamah S, Gray A & Hilton J. (2011). Towards Persistent Control over Shared Information in a Collaborative Environment.
- Alsalamah S, Gray A & Hilton J. (2011). Towards persistent control over shared information in a collaborative environment
- Tawileh A, Hilton J & McIntosh S. (2009). ISSE 2008 Securing Electronic Business Processes
- Burnap P & Hilton J. (2009). Self Protecting Data for De-perimeterised Information Sharing
- Tawileh A, Hilton J & McIntosh S. (2009). Information Security Status in Organisations 2008
- Tawileh A, Hilton J & McIntosh S. (2007). Managing Information Security in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Holistic Approach
- Tawileh A, Hilton J & McIntosh S. (2006). Modelling the Economics of Free and Open Source Software Security
Books
- Darby R, Dodd L & Hilton J. (2021). Chapter 10: cyber security and knowledge management In Cleary LR & Darby R (eds), Managing security: concepts and challenges. Routledge.
- Cleary LR & Darby R. (2021). Managing Security In Cleary LR & Darby R (eds), Managing security: concepts and challenges. Routledge.
- Alsalamah S, Alsalamah H, Gray AW & Hilton J. (2017). Information Security Threats in Patient-Centred Healthcare In Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science. IGI Global.
- Alsalamah S, Alsalamah H, Gray AW & Hilton J. (2016). Information Security Threats in Patient-Centred Healthcare In Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration. IGI Global.
- Cherdantseva Y & Hilton J. (2015). Information Security and Information Assurance In Standards and Standardization. IGI Global.
- Cherdantseva Y & Hilton J. (2014). The 2011 Survey of Information Security and Information Assurance Professionals In Portela IM & Almeida F (eds), Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing. IGI Global.
- Cherdantseva Y & Hilton J. (2014). Information Security and Information Assurance In Portela IM & Almeida F (eds), Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing. IGI Global.
- Cherdantseva Y, Hilton J & Rana O. (2012). Towards SecureBPMN - Aligning BPMN with the Information Assurance and Security Domain In Mendling J & Weidlich M (eds), Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (125 LNBIP). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- Cherdantseva Y, Rana O & Hilton J. (2012). Security Architecture in a Collaborative De-Perimeterised Environment: Factors of Success In ISSE 2011 Securing Electronic Business Processes. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag.
- Rana O, Hilton J, Joita L, Burnap P, Pahwa JS, .... (2005). Secure Virtual Organisations: Protocols and Requirements In ISSE 2005 — Securing Electronic Business Processes. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag.
