Rate My Professor Miranda Bruce

Dr Miranda Bruce is a Lecturer in Cyber Security at the UNSW Canberra School of Professional Studies, University of New South Wales. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from The Australian National University in 2022. Her doctoral thesis, titled 'The Internet of Individuation', explored the Internet of Things through post-structuralist theory, drawing on thinkers such as Deleuze and Simondon. Following her PhD, Bruce held a Postgraduate Fellowship position in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford, where she worked on the CRIMGOV project, focusing on the geography of cybercrime and factors influencing cybercrime production in different countries. She lectures in postgraduate programs on cybersecurity leadership, covering the history of cyber security, ethics of data governance and privacy measures, and the politics of the Australian cybercrime landscape. Bruce is affiliated with the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security and maintains research interests in cybercrime, human geography, and expert surveys.

Bruce's key publications include the highly cited article 'Mapping the global geography of cybercrime with the World Cybercrime Index' (PLOS ONE, 2024, co-authored with J. Lusthaus, R. Kashyap, N. Phair, and F. Varese), which ranks countries by cybercrime threat level based on expert assessments and has advanced understanding of global cyber threats. She co-edited the book 'Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social' (Routledge, 2019, with A. Tsalapatanis, D. Bissell, and H. Keane), contributing the introduction 'Belonging unbound' and the chapter 'Beyond Human (Un)Belonging: Intimacies and the impersonal in Black Mirror' (with C. Southerton). Other notable works are 'Mapping the Geography of Cybercrime: A Review of Indices of Digital Offending by Country' (2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, with J. Lusthaus and N. Phair) and the 'World Cybercrime Index (2021 survey)' (2024). Her research has informed public discourse through UNSW media and events.