Cyber security grant for Royal Holloway to increase PhD students

A £3.8m grant to host a new cyber security training centre has been awarded to a university in Surrey.

The Royal Holloway, in Egham, will use the money for its Centre for Doctoral Training, which will boost the number of PhD cyber security graduates.

Last year the Royal Holloway's Information Security Group was commended by the UK intelligence agency GCHQ.

The grant will fund ten PhD scholarships in three annual intakes.

The money was provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Professor Keith Martin, who is the director of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, said: "We are delighted to have received this funding which recognises the strength of our research and teaching.

"While Royal Holloway has operated an excellent graduate school in cyber security for many years, a Centre for Doctoral Training represents a significantly different approach to research training."