HIVE is an interdisciplinary group of academics that was first established at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) in 2018. Since then we have expanded our network. Our members have backgrounds in law, information security, neuroscience, forensic and developmental psychology.
HIVE members are conducting interdisciplinary research into a) improving security awareness and responses to financial elder abuse, and b) online security and safety risks for adolescents with regard to cyberbullying and cyberstalking.
Our team is looking to address questions in the above areas using their expertise in:
- Decision making and risk taking
- Regulatory frameworks, expressive rights and privacy
- Information Security and privacy risk, and cybercrime
- Elder Abuse; cyberstalking
- Self-disclosure and adolescents’ understanding of social media risks
Founding members
Dr Jane Marriott (Department of Law and Criminology, RHUL)
Dr Marriott is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Law and Criminology at RHUL. Her primary research expertise is focussed around regulatory frameworks, expressive rights and privacy. You can find out more about her work here.
Dr Konstantinos Mersinas (Department of Information Security, RHUL)
Dr Mersinas is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Information Security at RHUL. His primary research expertise focuses on information security and privacy behaviours, risk attitudes, and cybercrime. You can find out more about his work here.
Prof Dawn Watling (Department of Psychology, RHUL)
Professor Watling is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at RHUL. Her expertise is within developmental psychology, with one of her primary areas of research expertise being focussed around self-disclosure and adolescents’ understanding of social media risks. You can find out more about her work here.
Dr Jennifer Storey (School of Psychology, University of Kent)
Dr Storey is a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology within the School of Psychology at the University of Kent. Her primary research expertise is focussed around older adult abuse and cyberstalking. You can find out more about her work here.
Dr Joshua Balsters (Department of Psychology, RHUL)
Dr Balsters is an Honorary Researcher Fellow with the Department of Psychology at RHUL. Dr Balsters is employed as a Client Liaison at Gorilla by Cauldron Science. His primary research expertise is on decision making and risk taking. You can find out more about his research work here.
Associated members
Dr Matt Apps
Matt is head of the Motivation and Social Neuroscience (MSN) and a BBSRC senior research fellow (=Associate Professor) at the Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham and Christ Church College, University of Oxford. The MSN lab aims to understand the biology and psychology behind motivation and decision-making, how they vary between people, and across the lifespan. MSN uses a combination of computational models of psychological processes, novel behavioural tasks and measures of brain function to ask questions about how people decide whether to engage in behaviours or not, particularly when they are interacting with others, and how this impacts their lives outside of the lab. You can find out more about the labs work here: www.MSN-lab.com
Dr Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham
Dr Patricia Lockwood is an Senior Research Fellow/Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham and Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Patricia leads the Social Decision Neuroscience Lab. Her lab investigates social learning and decision-making across the lifespan and in neurological and psychiatric disorders using a mixture of computational modelling, behavioural measures, self report, patient studies and neuroimaging. You can read more about the work in the lab here: www.sdn-lab.org.