Particularly enjoy applying scientific rigour and academic analysis to real-world situations to obtain evidence-based solutions.  

Externally funded projects:

• Security Conference Presentation Event. Funder: QinetiQ. £7,000 (PI)
• Innovation Concept Event. Funder: QinetiQ. £10,000 (PI)
• Brands on the Darknet 2.0. Funder: Crowe UK. £5,000 (PI)
• Victims of Computer Misuse Crime. Funder: Home Office. £60,950 (CoI)
• ASC Task 0175 IMMT: Identification of Innovation Models, Methods and Tools. Funder: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory [dstl]. Portsmouth received: £23,957 (Academic PI)
• Data Release: Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security. Funder: ERSRC (Joint PI). EP/N027825/1 (£360k; Portsmouth); EP/N028139/1 (£1.24M; Swansea)
• Understanding the UK Cyber Skills Labour Market. Funder: DCMS, UK Government. Portsmouth received: £8,250 (CoI)
•  The UK government's annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey  (2016; 2017; 2018; 2019). Funder: DCMS, UK Government. Portsmouth received: £12,749 (CoI)
• Brands on the Darknet (PI) & The Real Cost of Application Fraud (CoI). Funder: Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP. £10,000
• One of the four members of the panel of academic experts of an IPSOS/Mori-led project – Understanding the UK Cyber Skills Labour Market 2.0. Funder: DCMS, UK Government.

Victoria's future research interests include: developing her Phatic Technology Theory for applications in marginalised urban societies, and developing cybersecurity solutions for critical infrastructure.

Her current research ranges over cyber/information security, surveillance studies, social theory, technological developments and online research methods. 

Her latest research projects involve:

1. data release and its related issues of trust, privacy and security;
2. security threats and management measures in organisations;
3. formal methods for monitoring, data collection and interventions;
4. a general formal theory of digital identity and surveillance;
5. developing new techno-social theories such as ‘Phatic Technologies’ as conceptual tools to understand cyberspace and its security issues;
6. cybercrime and threats in various countries, e.g., Nigeria, and various networks, e.g., the Darknet; and
7. cyberbullying. 

Victoria has published many peer-reviewed journal papers with plentiful in progress, and currently manages 9 doctoral students: including 4 professional doctorate students in their research phase as their 1^st supervisor, as well as 5 professional doctorate students in their taught phase as their tutor. To date, 5 of her previous PhD students successfully defended their theses. Previous and current doctoral supervision areas include:

• UK police operational decision-making model
• Cyber security for Critical National Infrastructures (CPNI)
• Cybercrime in Nigeria - Perception and reality 
• Cybercrime in Nigeria - Techno-social governance
• Human factors and their impacts on crisis resilience
• The roles, skills, and practices of the Chief Security Officer (CSO)
• Cybercrime and its governance in Vietnam (sponsored by the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security)
• Cybersecurity management within South Korean business - risks and cybercrime involving industrial security (partially sponsored by the Korean National Police)

Her latest publications include:

• People watching: Abstractions and orthodoxies of monitoring (Technology in Society)

• ‘I am not a number': Conceptualising identity in digital surveillance (Technology in Society)

• Industrial espionage – A systematic literature review (SLR) (Computers & Security)

• Fraud against businesses both online and offline: crime scripts, business characteristics, efforts, and benefits (Crime Science)

• Exploring the extent of openness of open government data – A critique of open government datasets in the UK (Government Information Quarterly)

• The barriers to the opening of government data in the UK: A view from the bottom (Information Polity)

• Surveillance and Identity: Conceptual Framework and Formal Models (Journal of Cybersecurity)