Annual Informatics Schools Lecture
Cybersecurity and privacy: it’s everyone’s business – 10 December 2025

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Are you a GCSE or A-Level student interested in computing? Join us here at King’s for our annual informatics schools lecture! Dr Kovila Coopamootoo will deliver the 2025 lecture, exploring the vital topics of cybersecurity and privacy, highlight research helping to keep us all safe online.

This event is aimed at those aged 16+. Younger attendees are welcome, but please note that attendees under the age of 14 must be accompanied by a responsible adult. For school groups, tickets are limited to 20 students per booking, to ensure a larger number of schools can attend. If you are aged 14–18 and booking for yourself, please check with a parent or guardian before booking your place.

For in-person events we operate a policy of overbooking, to help manage on the day drop-out rates. Please ensure you arrive in good time to avoid disappointment on the day.

Full details and contact information: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/annual-informatics-schools-2025

About the talk

The internet is present in almost every corner of our modern lives, with mobile technology giving us access almost anywhere at any time. Whilst this has made our lives better in many ways, it has also made us potentially more exposed to harms, for example from bad actors or from other online platform users.

Thankfully, computer scientists across the world are working against these bad actors, helping to enhance the safety of all internet users, and keep digital spaces safe and welcoming.

Join Dr Kovila Coopamootoo to explore the world of cybersecurity, privacy and online safety, to see how researchers at King’s are working to keep the internet safe. Kovila will explore the challenges in ensuring users’ security and privacy online, in particular for at-risk users like children or migrants, and risky situations such as sharing your personal information and content online.

When, and schedule

Wednesday 10 December 2025, 4.30pm – 6pm.

15:15 – Event opens; registration, refreshments and computing activities
16:15 – Theatre doors open
16:30-16:40 – Theatre event starts; welcome and housekeeping
16:40-17:00 – Research talk from King’s Informatics PhD student
17:00-18:00 – Dr Kovila Coopamootoo talk and Q&A
 18:00 – Event finishes

Where?

In-person at King’s College London’s Strand Campus.
Room: Edmond J Safra Lecture TheatreStrand, London, WC2R 2LS

About the speaker

Dr Kovila Coopamootoo is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science within the Cyber Security Group at King’s College London. Her research is at the intersection of privacy, security, AI and human-computer interaction, with a keen interest in disadvantaged, vulnerable and marginalised user communities. Her research has been published at top-tier venues.

Prior to joining King’s, Kovila was an Academic Track Research Fellow at the Secure & Resilient Systems Group at Newcastle University. She obtained her PhD in the area of usable privacy at Cranfield University (Defence & Security campus in Shrivenham), her MSc Information Security with distinction, at Royal Holloway University of London and her BEng Computer Science & Engineering with first class honours, at the University of Mauritius.

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