Academic activities

Organising conferences, supervising students, supporting grants and programme committee duties.

100+

Conference committees

25+

HDR Graduates

30+

Grants

$12M+

Funding

Paul has delivered keynotes, invited presentations, workshops, professional development/training and seminars across the world for audiences including RSA Security, ITU and IEEE. He has appeared on local, national and international media (newspaper, radio and tv) commenting on current cyber issues with a global audience reach of more than four billion people. His contributions through articles published in The Conversation have reached over four million readers. Paul has more than 25 years of experience in cyber security research and education leadership in both the UK and Australia.

Paul is the Chair and Australian national representative to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 (TC11 - Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems); secretary to IFIP Working Group 11.1 (Information Security Management); and, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, BCS, ACS (Certified Professional) and the Australian Information Security Association.  He is the author of over 100 papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings and edited 34 books/proceedings. Paul is a member of the editorial board for the Elsevier journal Computers and Security, as well as being an active reviewer for ten journals.

External appointments

  1. Australian Research Council, Discovery Indigenous, 2025
  2. Australian Research Council, Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities , 2024 (on-going)
  3. Australian Research Council, Future Fellowships Reviewer, 2022 (on-going)
  4. Australian Research Council, Discovery Reviewer, 2019 (on-going)
  5. Australian Research Council, Linkage Project Reviewer, 2019 (on-going)
  6. Australian Research Council, DECRA Reviewer, 2019 (on-going)
  7. ACS Cybersecurity committee member, 2018 (on-going)
  8. Australian (ACS) national representative to IFIP Technical Committee on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems (TC11), 2018 (on-going)
  9. Chair of the IFIP Technical Committee on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems (TC11), 2022-2025
  10. Industry Advisory Group (North Metropolitan TAFE) representative, 2018 (on-going)
  11. Member of the IFIP TC 11 Working Group 11.12 on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, 2010 (on-going)
  12. Secretary & Webmaster, IFIP TC11 Working Group 11.1 on Information Security Management, 2004 (on-going)
  13. Australian Research Council, General Assessor and Selection Advisory Committee panel member for Industrial Transformation Research Program (Research Hubs and Training Centres) (2018, 2019)
  14. Working Group Coordinator, IFIP TC11, 2017-2022
  15. Reviewer for National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa
  16. External examiner, MSc Information Technology and MSc Software Development at the University of Glasgow, January 2014 - December 2016
  17. Branch Committee Member & Webmaster, BCS South West, April 2004-2016
  18. External examiner, Information Technology, Information Technology with Management, Information Technology with Economics, Business Information Technology awards at the University of Reading, October 2007 - September 2011
  19. Programme validation event - external panel member, MSc Computer Networking, NEWI, May 2007
  20. External examiner, MSc Computing, Computer Science, Forensic Computing, Distance Learning, Multimedia and Web Multimedia awards at the University of Stafford, January 2007 - December 2011
  21. SAHFOS Honorary Fellow in recognition of work to develop the WinCPR, North Sea Plankton Database, April 2005 (renewed 2015)
  22. Programme validation event - external panel member, University of Portsmouth, May 2005
  23. Programme validation event - external panel member, University of Greenwich at Medway, March 2005

Other professional/academic activities/roles/duties

Edith Cowan University, Perth Australia:

  1. Associate Dean (International and Strategic Partnerships) - 2026-present
  2. Associate Dean (Computing and Security) - 2016-2026
  3. Acting Dean (as required)
  4. Acting Associate Dean Computing and Security (as required)
  5. Acting Associate Dean Science and Mathematics (as required)
  6. Acting Associate Dean Teaching and Learning (as required)
  7. ASL Committee
  8. Curriculum, Teaching & Learning Committee
  9. ERA Discipline Champion
  10. School Executive
  11. Research and Research Training Committee
  12. Workplace Health and Safety Committee

Past (Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK):

  1. Associate Head of School for Computing (2015-2016)
  2. Academic Regulations Sub-Committee - Faculty Representative (2012-2016)
  3. Cisco Academy Co-ordinator (2005-2016)
  4. CNET Subject Group Leader (2002-2015)
  5. Computer Security Incident Response Team member (2015-2016)
  6. Data Centre Project Board member (2015-2016)
  7. DLE Early Adopter - School Representative (2014-2015)
  8. DLE User Group - Academic Representative (2015-2016)
  9. DTC Committee Member - CSCAN Representative (2014-2016)
  10. Enterprise Architecture Board - Academic Representative (2013-2016)
  11. Faculty IT Committee - School Representative (2014-2016)
  12. Faculty Plagiarism Committee - (2002-2016)
  13. Fitness to Study Hearing - Chair (2014-2016)
  14. HR Self Service Working Group - Academic Representative (2009-2010)
  15. Industrial Liaison Advisory Committee (2009-2012)
  16. Information Security Group (2015-2016)
  17. Information Security Policy - Contributor (2012-2014)
  18. League Table Performance Committee - S3 Representative (2015-2016)
  19. Microsoft Server 2003 Migration Project Board - Academic Representative (2015-2016)
  20. Research Student Data Project (2012)
  21. School Executive (2009-2016)
  22. School Health and Safety Committee (2015-2016)
  23. SciTech Showcase - School Coordinator (2012-2016)
  24. Student Marks Project Board (2011-2013)
  25. Teaching Learning and Quality Committee (2011-2016)
  26. University IT Committee (2015-2016)
  27. Web Expenses Process Group (2009-2010)