Contact Tash Buckley
Background
Tash Buckley is a Lecturer in Cyber Security at Cranfield University. She was previously a Researcher in the Cyber and Tech team at the Royal United Services Institution (RUSI). Her research focusses on disruptive and emerging technologies at the intersection of national security, trusted innovation, narratives, futures and cyber policy.
Tash has a computer science background, and is also a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London in the Centre for Doctoral Training, within the Geography department, and is part of the Information Security Group. Her thesis focuses on the transition from cyber security to cyber power within strategy and policy in the UK, exploring narratives and the cyber ecosystem.
Tash has a broad portfolio of creative qualitative approaches to research, is an adept software developer, is a passionate advocate of diversity in tech and cyber skills pipelines and is a member of the AI Expert Group, a joint initiative between the Defence AI Centre (DAIC)-led partnership, the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) and Team Defence-Information (TD-Info).
Research opportunities
Tash's research interests include disruptive and emerging technologies at the intersection of national security, trusted research and secure innovation and the use of narrative / story telling along with other qualitative methodologies to elicit rich pictures of technology and policy. Tash is also interested in the geopolitics of technology and innovation, and finding innovative ways to engage and communicate tech and cyber concepts to a variety of audiences.