Lynne Coventry

Lynne Coventry is Professor and Director of the Psychology and Communication Technology (PaCT) Laboratory at Northumbria University. Her research in human computer interaction is focussed upon security and privacy behaviours including work with older adults and within a health context.

She is Northumbria’s lead investigator for a Euro 4.2 Million Horizon 2020 project (ACANTO), a project that includes exploration of privacy issues for technology that supports the privacy and mobility of older adults and is Northumbria lead for a £1.1 million EPSRC/GCHQ funded project (Chaise) which is one of the core projects in the UK’s Research Institute of the Science of Cybersecurity, of which she is a founding member.

She is the lead author on a UK Government Office for Science Report on ‘Using behavioural insights to improve the public’s use of cyber security best practice’ and was a member of the Blackett Review for the UK Government Office for Science 2014 Report ‘The Internet of Things: Making the most of the Second Digital Revolution’ and co–author on the ESRC/Dstl commissioned review on cyber situational awareness, that highlighted the trust and privacy issues surrounding Big Data and IoT.