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Highlights of Our Academy

Our Past, Your Future

Where we have lectured, educated and mentored through our careers

  • Harvard University

  • The Australian National University

  • Monash University

  • Kings College London

  • Tufts University

  • Australian Defence College

  • Defence Intelligence Organisation

  • Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam

  • Cambridge University

  • Australia New Zealand School of Government

  • University of New South Wales Canberra​​

  • QANTAS

  • Commonwealth Bank

  • AECOM

  • Global Development Learning Network (World Bank)​

  • Vietnamese Cryptographic Agency

What research themes did we address in cyber and tech policy publications in 2024-2025?

  • Cyber catastrophe

  • Military cyber targeting

  • Costs of cyber attacks

  • Cyber operations in the Ukraine/Russia war

  • US/China competition in quantum sensing

  • Australian cyber diplomacy

  • Scale and motivations of Australia’s cyber surge

  • Cyber investment

  • Technology impact assessment

Where did we lead in cyber and tech education policy in 2025?

  • Led efforts in Australia to establish an AUKUS network of cyber educators based on existing US/UK efforts

  • Facilitated a panel on social responsibility aspects of artificial intelligence in higher education with 11 papers at the annual conference of the UK Academy of Information Sciences

  • presented  a paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) in California

  • Led a table-top exercise on a cyber crisis for Malaysian officials in Kuala Lumpur

  • Worked in a team of eight Australian and Indian researchers to develop a syllabus on technology impact assessment under a grant from the Australian Government

Since 2014, our course leaders have published books on:

  • Cybersecurity education

  • National cyber emergencies

  • Cyber capabilities and national power

  • China’s cyber power

  • China's cybersecurity

Inquiries

Lisa Materano: lmaterano@blendedlearning.edu.au

Greg Austin: greg.austin@socialcyber.co

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