Dr Ismini Vasileiou

Dr Ismini Vasileiou Associate Professor in Information Systems (FBCS, SFHEA) and Associate Head (Teaching and Learning) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, is the Apprenticeships Lead having extensive experience on developing, managing and leading employer led curriculum and the provision of Degree Apprenticeships. She has previously led teams on Information Systems as the Subject Group Lead, developing cutting edge curriculum giving attention to diverse teaching and assessment across the School and Institution. 

Dr. Vasileiou's research interests include Social Engineering, Security Education, Learning Analytics and Technology-supported Learning. Holding an EdD in Flexible Learning for Computing Degrees in Higher Education, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of BCS, Dr Vasileiou is actively involved in academic delivery at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as the supervision of BSc, MSc and postgraduate research(PhD). Dr Vasileiou is publishing on topics including flexible learning, security education, and technology-supported delivery, and delivers a variety of invited presentations and keynote talks in relation to topics such as Digital Transformation in Higher Education, unconscious bias and stereotypes in STEM topics.

To discuss PhD opportuntities please email Dr Vasileiou. (See below for research interests and areas of expertise)

• Cyber Technology Institute (CTI)
• Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR)

Books

• I.Vasileiou and S.Furnell. 2019. Cybersecurity Education for Awareness and Compliance. IGI Global, Hershey, PA. 306pp.

Chapters in Books

• Vasileiou, I. (2021). “The Cyber Skills Gap”, in Cybersecurity Issues in Emerging Technologies”,  (in press)
• S.M.Furnell, and I.Vasileiou. 2019."A Holistic View of Cybersecurity Education Requirements", in Cybersecurity Education for Awareness and Compliance, I.Vasileiou and S.Furnell (Eds.), IGI Global, Hershey, PA, pp1-18.
• I.Vasileiou and S.Furnell. 2019. “Personalising Security Education ‐ Factors influencing individual awareness and compliance”, Information Systems Security and Privacy, Fourth International Conference, ICISSP 2018, Madeira, Portugal, January 22-24, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, P.Mori, S.Furnell and O.Camp (Eds.), Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer. 

Refereed papers in journals

• Vasileiou, I., Knahl, M. , Sankaran, G., Siestrup,G. (2020) A Measurement Model of Value of Data for Decision Making in the Digital Era, Journal of Integrated Supply Management (accepted)
•  Furnell, S. and Vasileiou, I. (2017), “Security Education and Awareness: Just let them burn?“, in Network Security
• Vasileiou, I. (2008), “Blended Learning: The transformation of Higher  Education curriculum”, Open Education: The journal forOpen and Distance Education and Education Technology

Refereed conference contributions

• Papathanasaki, M., Dimitriou, G., Maglaras, L, Vasileiou, I., Janicke, H. (2020) “From Cyber terrorism to Cyber Peacekeeping: re we there yet?”, 24^th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, 20-22 November 2020
• Vasileiou, I. (2020) “Cyber Security Education and Training Delivering industry relevant education and skills via Degree Apprenticeships, HAISA 2020
• Vasileiou, I. (2020) “Athena SWAN: One for All, or All for One?”, Advance HE EDI Conference, Edinburgh, March 2020 
• Vasileiou, I. (2020) “Social Inclusion in STEM: Schemes, Myths and Suggestions”, Advance HE STEM Conference, Manchester, January 2020 
• Vasileiou, I. and Haskell-Dowland, P. (2019) “Addressing STEM Geek Culture Through Peer Learning”, Proceedings 11^thInternational Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma Spain, July 2019
• C. Barnyard and I. Vasileiou (2019) “Student-centred analytics: Putting analytics into the hands of students”, Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC), Darmstadt, Germany, 29 March
• G. Sankaran, M. Knahl, G. Siestrup and I. Vasileiou (2019) “Value of Smart Data for Supply Chain decisions in a rich uncertain world”, Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC), Darmstadt, Germany, 29 March
• S.Furnell, N.Outram and I.Vasileiou (2018) “Digital Technologies in Education: When to say goodbye”, World Congress of Education, Dublin, Ireland, 15-18 July
• Vasileiou, I. (2018), “An evaluation of Accelerated Learning Degrees”,  HEA STEM Conference Newcastle, UK, 31 January – 1 February 2018
• I.Vasileiou and S.Furnell. 2018. “Enhancing Security Education Recognising Threshold Concepts and other influencing factors”, in Proceedings of ICISSP 2018 - 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 22-24 January 2018, pp398-403.
• S.Furnell, I.Vasileiou, N.Outram (2017) “iPads in Education: Positive Pedagogies versus Problematic Practicalities”, London International Conference on Education (LICE-2017), Cambridge, UK, 11-14 December 2017 (accepted)
• Vasileiou, I. (2011), “What is to be a Teacher in Higher Education: The relationship between Teaching and Research”, 6thInternational Conference on Open and Distance Learning, Loutraki, Greece 6-9 November 2011.
• Vasileiou, I. (2009), Integrating PDP (Personal Development Planning) and the e-portfolios in Accelerated Learning coursesemphasising on employability, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Open and Distance Learning, Athens, Greece, 27-29 November 2009.
• Vasileiou, I. (2007), Can ICT support learning and teaching in Computing courses? How do we choose and use? Proceedingsof the 4th International Conference on Open and Distance Learning, Athens, Greece, 23 -25 November 2007

Other published outputs

• Dowland, P. and Vasileiou, I. (2020), “Cyber Threats at Home: How to keep kids safe while they are learning online”, The Conversation
• Vasileiou, I. (2017) Data Normalisation: A Systematic Approach to Data Structuring and Organisation, Computing Review Magazine 

We welcome PhD applications on the below topics. For more information please email Dr Vasileiou

Social Engineering

Security Education, Training and Compliance

Learning Analytics

Technology Supported Delivery

1. BSc(Hons) Computing Informatics, University of Plymouth UK
2. PGCE post 16, University of Plymouth UK
3. EdD - Doctor of Education, University of Sheffield UK  “Flexible Learning for Computing Degrees in Higher Education”

2016           Go4SET School Bronze Award

2014           Shortlisted for the WISE Advisor Award

2012           Recipient of ‘Most Dedicated Project Supervisor” SSTAR Award, University of Plymouth

2012           Shortlisted for the WISE Advisor Award

• 2021   Consultant/Advisor for the SFIAv8 Review/Update
• 2020 – Present WHEN (Women’s Network in Higher Education) Core Team Researcher
• 2020 – Present Trustee Brookvale Groby Learning Campus, Leicester, UK
• 2020  ESRC New Investigator Award Reviewer
• 2018 BCS Skills Editor for Competency and Capability L&D Specialism during the SFIAv7 Upgrade
• 2017 BCS Education Portfolio Reviewer
• 2017-2019 Chair of BCS South West Branch
• 2017-present NTFS and Global Teaching Excellence Award Reviewer 
• 2016-2019 Chair School Governor for Learning Standards
• 2017-2019 Vice-Chair School Governor
• 2016-2017 BCS Level 1/2 Apprenticeships Subject Matter Expert
• 2016-present Member, IFIP TCP WG 11.8 Information Security Education 
• 2016-present Membership Secretary and EDI Officer, BCS Learning and Development SG
• 2015-2019 EDI Committee Member, BCSWomen
• 2015-2018 Chair of STEM SIG International Academic Peer Learning Leadership group 
• 2015-2017 Secretary, BCS South West Branch 
• 2013-2015 Barefoot Computing Workshop Curriculum Leader for Teachers
• 2013-2015 Barefoot Computing Workshop Curriculum Leader for Teachers

1. FBCS - Fellow of the Chartered Institute of IT (BCS)
2. SFHEA - Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy

1. GCHQ Certified Social Engineering Awareness Course
2. PASS/SI Supplemental Instruction Supervisor 
3. mySAP ERP Instructor E-Business Software Integration

1. KTP Lead Academic: To develop a tool that manages medical device standard compliance for agile-style software development
2. KTP Lead Academic: To develop a dynamic software analysis tool using large data to predict the impact of new chemicals and compounds upon the environment and to enable certification testing to be optimized
3. Vasileiou, I. 2017. Peer Assisted Learning for Mature students in STEM, Plymouth University
4. Vasileiou, I. 2011. Peer Assisted Learning Scheme (PALS), Plymouth University

1. Ms Eirini Kalaitzopoulou, Leanring Analytics in Higher Education
2. Mr Craig Banyard, Learning Analytics: A Student perspective
3. Mr Zinnar Ghasm “A framework for tailored cyber security reaining.“
4. Mr Ganesh Manikandan “An ontology based framework for measuring business value of smart data by considering impact of uncertainty on supply chain processes.”

Editorial Board

1.     Consultant Editor: International Journal for e-Learning Society

Journal Reviewer

1. Journal of Cybersecurity Education, research and Practice 
2. Elsevier Heliyon
3. Elsevier Computers and Security
4. Emerald Information and Computer Security
5. Neural Computing and Applications Journal
6. Horizon Computer Science and Information Technology
7. Journal of Computer Science in Higher Education (JCHE)
8. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education

Conference Committees and Reviewing

1. Conference Co-Chair CSTE 2021: The 3^rd International Conference on Computer Science And Technologies in Education, Beijing, China,  MAY 28-30, 2021
2. Programme Committee, ICIS2021: Association for Information Systems, June 2021
3. Programme Committee, WISE 14: The 14^th World Conference on Information Security Education, Online, June 2021
4. Programme Committee, CybET20021: Cybersecurity Issues in Emerging Technologies Edited Book
5. Programme Committee, LICE 2020: London international Conference on Education, London, UK, 23-25 November 2020
6. Reviewer, Societal Impact of IS Track in the International Conference on Information Systems, 2020
7.  Programme Committee, HAISA: 14th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, Greece 8-10 July 2020
8. Technical Programme Committee, The 12^th International Conference in Education Technology and Computers (ICETC 2020), London, UK, October 23-26, 2020
9. Technical Programmed Committee, The Ninth International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2020, Linz, Germany, Slovakia, September 14-17, 2020
10. Technical Programmed Committee, The Ninth International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2019, Linz, Germany, Austria, August 26-29, 2019 
11. Programme Committee, The 12^th World Conference in Information Security Education WISE 2019, Lisbon, Portugal, June 25-27, 2019
12. Technical Programmed Committee, The Ninth International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2018, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-6, 2018 
13. Associate Editor, ECIS: European Conference on Information Systems, Portsmouth, UK, 23-28 June 2018
14. Reviewer, HAISA: 11th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, Adelaide, Australia, 28-30 November 2017
15. Programme Committee, 28^th International Conference on Database Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Lyon France, 28-31 August 2017
16. Technical Programmed Committee, The 8th International Conference on Information Technology in Education (CITE 2017) February 26 to 28, 2017 in Guilin, China
17. Programme Committee, 10th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE 10), Rome Italy, 28-31 May 2017
18. Technical Programme Committee, The Ninth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications DBKDA 2017, Barcelona, Spain, May 21 - 25, 2017

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• “Digital Transformation in Higher Education: Revolution or Evolution?”, Innovating Higher Education: The Digital Education Virtual Conference, May 18 2021
• “TBA”, Keynote Speaker, Ireland International Conference on Education, Ireland, 27-29 April 2021
• “BAME Professors” Panel Discussion, Decolonising DMU, De Montfort University, February 2021
• “Digital Transformation in Higher Education”, University of Ioannina, January 2021
• “Managing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” University of Nottingham, November 2020
• “The Gender gap in Research”, Early Career Research Group at University of Birmingham, November 2020
• “Digital Transformation in Higher Education: National and International Education from the Living Room”, OEB: Shaping the Future of Learning, Germany, December 2020
• “A Global crisis transforming Teaching from didactic to Online overnight”, LICE 2020, London 23-25 November 2020
• “Women in Leadership”, Digital Women, Institute of Coding, August 2020
• Round Table Facilitator at “If Not Now, When” Conference, WHEN, July 2020
• “Challenging EDI Governance”, De Montfort University, March 2020
• "Social Engineering and the importance for IT Professionals”, University of Wolverhampton, October 2019
• “diversITy – Promoting e-skills training for a diverse tech workforce”, Expert Panelist, London October 2018
• “Social Engineering”, Workshop, Secure South West, Plymouth February 2018
• “Peer Learning in STEM”, Workshop, RAISE Conference, Manchester September 2017
• “Diversity in Tech: Recruitment, Resilience, Retention”, Invited Panelist Bristol July 2017
• “Peer Learning in STEM”, Workshop, European Forum of Peer Learning, Lund June 2017
• “Unconscious Bias: Confronting the Stereotypes”, TEDx Plymouth, March 2017
• Unconscious Bias Training for ICE South West, December 2016
• “The Geek culture, social interaction and flipped classroom”, VC’s Teaching and Learning Conference, Plymouth, June 2016
• “People Like Me: Confronting Stereotypes”, VC’s Teaching and Learning Conference, Plymouth, June 2016
• ‘Pink or Blue: Confronting the Stereotypes’ Invited talk for Go4SET Awards event, Plymouth UK, May 2016
• ‘Empowering STEM’ Invited talk for Go4SET Launch event, Plymouth UK, February 2016
• “The Geek Culture and Peer Learning”, VC’s Teaching and Learning Conference, Plymouth, June 2015
• Invited Keynote Speaker, STEM Awards, Plymouth UK, 21 May 2015.
• “Women in STEM: Career Progression”, Women in STEM event part of the British Science Week at Plymouth University, 20 March2015
• “Women in IT”, invited talk, Bedfordshire BCS Student Chapter, Luton UK, February 2015.
• Invited Keynote Speaker, Women in STEM, Plymouth UTC UK, December 2014.

1. Industrial Cadets STEM Week, Cyber Day, 25^th November 2020
2. Women in STEM: Inspiring the next generations, 23^rd March 2017, Plymouth, UK.
3. Women in STEM: Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering, 10^th March 2016, Plymouth University 
4. ‘Celebrating International Women’s Day’, Plymouth, UK, 8^th March 2016.
5. BCSWomen, App-A-Thon Guinness World Record Attempt Coding Event, Plymouth, UK, 13^th June 2015.
6. BCS South West Branch, “Women in IT”, 19^th March 2015.
7. Workshop on “Requirements Analysis” for Plymouth UTC students, Plymouth, UK, 23^rd January 2015.