Research & Articles

Knowledge that drives better security culture

Research insights and practical articles on behavioural science, security culture, and human cyber risk - from the CyBehave research programme.

Research Insights are findings from the CyBehave research programme - data, evidence and what it means for practice. Articles are practical guidance - how to apply behavioural science to your security programme day to day. The Signals and Ripples weekly briefings round up what matters each week.

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Behavioural Change 9 Oct 2026 14 min
Volunteer, voluntold or chosen: how to recruit champions who change behaviour
Volunteers bring motivation without reach. Appointment brings reach without motivation. Neither starts from wh...
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Behavioural Change 2 Oct 2026 13 min
Where to start: the first ninety days of a champions programme
The hardest part of a champions programme is the first three months, when the idea is agreed and nothing exist...
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Behavioural Change 25 Sep 2026 13 min
Making the business case for security champions
Most champions programmes never get properly funded. They start as a side project, survive on goodwill, and fa...
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Behavioural Change 23 Sep 2026 18 min
Simple and Complex Contagion
Information spreads on a single contact. Behaviour does not. Reporting a suspicious email, challenging a senio...
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Behavioural Change 18 Sep 2026 12 min
Why now is the right time to start a champions programme
Security champions are not a new idea, so what has changed? Five things, and they have converged at once: AI-g...
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Multi Agent Systems 4 Sep 2026 15 min
Multi-Agent AI Is Replicating Social Psychology
Multi-agent AI research has quietly become a replication project for social psychology. Independent teams keep...
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Ai Alignment 1 Aug 2026 15 min
John in Sales built an app this afternoon
Polish used to be an honest signal that somebody had thought carefully about how a thing was built. It is now ...
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Ai Alignment 28 Jul 2026 18 min
Give Your Agents Something to Read: Building a Normative Repository for Agentic AI
Your agents will never see a poster or absorb culture in a corridor. But they will read a file, take it litera...
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Ai Alignment 24 Jul 2026 8 min
Fighting fire with fire, when only one side is allowed to burn
Everyone's answer to the frontier AI threat is fight fire with fire. But the attacking agent has no guardrails...
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