Professor Phil Legg

Co-founder, Director of Academic Conferences and Co-Director of Strategy.

Phil Legg is a Professor of Cyber Security at the University of the West of England (UWE), in recognition of "Advancing Teaching and Learning" (Primary domain) and for "Research with Impact" (Secondary domain). He is the Co-Director of UWEcyber, a Gold Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) as recognised by the National Cyber Security Centre. He is the Cyber Security research theme lead within the Computer Science Research Centre (CSRC) at UWE. He has also served in Programme Leadership roles, including leading the NCSC-certified MSc Cyber Security course at UWE (2018-2024), and more recently, joining the Programme Leadership team for the BSc Cyber Security and Digital Forensics programme at UWE (2024-) to support on industry partnership and external engagement.