Matt Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3748003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5146-6201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical interdisciplinary cybersecurity
Insecure systems are systems that call for a fix. Vulnerabilities attract attention, motivate a response, and evoke futures of risk and repair. But determining what exactly is wrong with a system and what would count as an adequate fix are complex matters that cybersecurity practice must grapple with. How fixes pan out – as ‘quick fixes’ or obstinate problems, as temporary sticking-plasters or permanent solutions – depends on a wide range of fact…
The volatility of trust
This paper examines how trust has been reconfigured in cybersecurity over the past 30 years, arguing that a ‘post-trust’ logic is increasingly shaping both technical architectures and organisational practices. Drawing on a critical historical analysis informed by the Social Construction of Technology, we juxtapose two prominent security models – Zero Trust (as developed at Google) and Distributed Trust (pioneered by the Tor Project) – and contend…
Reliability and criterion validity of the concept 2 SkiErgTM to assess 1,000-m on-snow, time trial performance—a case study
Objectives This study investigated the reliability and criterion validity of the Concept 2 SkiErgTM to assess 1,000-m on-snow, time trial performance using the classical double poling technique. Methods Ten athletes (5 males and females) from a National cross-country ski team participated in the study and completed a 1,000-m time trial on snow, as well as two 1,000-m time trials on the Concept 2 SkiErgTM in a temperature-controlled room during a …
Assessing the individual relationships between physical test improvements and external load match parameters in male professional football players—a brief report
Purpose This study aimed to explore whether a meaningful improvement in physical performance following an in-season strength training intervention can be related to external load match parameters at an individual level in professional male football players. Methods Eight male professional football players (25.4 ± 3.1 years, 184.1 ± 3.4 cm, 79.3 ± 2.2 kg) completed a 10-week strength intervention period in addition to football-specific training an…
Characterising assurance
This paper presents an analysis of recent transformations in cyber security assurance, a field of evaluation that aims to establish whether technical products are secure. I work from a set of narratives about problems with assurance, drawn from interviews with practitioners based in the UK. I focus on characterisation: the stories practitioners tell, the cast of characters that populate them, and how such stories act to problematise the domain. M…
The de-perimeterisation of information security
This article analyses the transformation of information security induced by the Jericho Forum, a group of security professionals who argued for a new 'de-perimeterised' security model. Having focused on defensive perimeters around networks, early 2000s information security faced a growing set of pressures: the maintainability of firewalls given increasing traffic volume and variety, the vulnerability of interior network domains, and the need to c…
Simulated Game-Based Ice Hockey Match Design (Scrimmage) Elicits Greater Intensity in External Load Parameters Compared With Official Matches
Objective A limited number of studies have explored the external load experienced in indoor sports such as ice hockey, and few the link between training and match performance. As a paucity exists within this topic, this study explored whether a simulated match design (i.e., scrimmage) could be representative of official match demands and elicit similar external loads as in official matches in a group of elite youth male ice hockey players. Method…
Pali Grammar
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The difference a method makes
Computational science is intrinsically interdisciplinary; the methods of one scientist may be the objects of study for another. This essay is an attempt to develop an interdisciplinary framework that can analyse research into methods as a distinctive kind of epistemic orientation in science, drawing on two examples from fieldwork with a group of specialists in computer modelling. Where methods for simulation are objects of research in their own r…
Image and Practice
In this study I examine the use of visualization within everyday research practices in computational physics. In doing so, I attempt to move from the well documented representational issues elicited by the concept of the image, to more microscale issues of the habitual structuring of the everyday that emerge when a specific example of science in the making is analysed. To this end, I focus on one specific example, of tracing a computational error…
Doctor Faustus with the English Faust Book
Image and Practice
In this study I examine the use of visualization within everyday research practices in computational physics. In doing so, I attempt to move from the well documented representational issues elicited by the concept of the image, to more microscale issues of the habitual structuring of the everyday that emerge when a specific example of science in the making is analysed. To this end, I focus on one specific example, of tracing a computational error…
The difference a method makes
Computational science is intrinsically interdisciplinary; the methods of one scientist may be the objects of study for another. This essay is an attempt to develop an interdisciplinary framework that can analyse research into methods as a distinctive kind of epistemic orientation in science, drawing on two examples from fieldwork with a group of specialists in computer modelling. Where methods for simulation are objects of research in their own r…
Characterising assurance
This paper presents an analysis of recent transformations in cyber security assurance, a field of evaluation that aims to establish whether technical products are secure. I work from a set of narratives about problems with assurance, drawn from interviews with practitioners based in the UK. I focus on characterisation: the stories practitioners tell, the cast of characters that populate them, and how such stories act to problematise the domain. M…
The de-perimeterisation of information security
This article analyses the transformation of information security induced by the Jericho Forum, a group of security professionals who argued for a new 'de-perimeterised' security model. Having focused on defensive perimeters around networks, early 2000s information security faced a growing set of pressures: the maintainability of firewalls given increasing traffic volume and variety, the vulnerability of interior network domains, and the need to c…
Pali Grammar
.
Doctor Faustus with the English Faust Book
Image and Practice
In this study I examine the use of visualization within everyday research practices in computational physics. In doing so, I attempt to move from the well documented representational issues elicited by the concept of the image, to more microscale issues of the habitual structuring of the everyday that emerge when a specific example of science in the making is analysed. To this end, I focus on one specific example, of tracing a computational error…
The difference a method makes
Computational science is intrinsically interdisciplinary; the methods of one scientist may be the objects of study for another. This essay is an attempt to develop an interdisciplinary framework that can analyse research into methods as a distinctive kind of epistemic orientation in science, drawing on two examples from fieldwork with a group of specialists in computer modelling. Where methods for simulation are objects of research in their own r…
Pali Grammar
.
Simulated Game-Based Ice Hockey Match Design (Scrimmage) Elicits Greater Intensity in External Load Parameters Compared With Official Matches
Objective A limited number of studies have explored the external load experienced in indoor sports such as ice hockey, and few the link between training and match performance. As a paucity exists within this topic, this study explored whether a simulated match design (i.e., scrimmage) could be representative of official match demands and elicit similar external loads as in official matches in a group of elite youth male ice hockey players. Method…
The de-perimeterisation of information security
This article analyses the transformation of information security induced by the Jericho Forum, a group of security professionals who argued for a new 'de-perimeterised' security model. Having focused on defensive perimeters around networks, early 2000s information security faced a growing set of pressures: the maintainability of firewalls given increasing traffic volume and variety, the vulnerability of interior network domains, and the need to c…
Assessing the individual relationships between physical test improvements and external load match parameters in male professional football players—a brief report
Purpose This study aimed to explore whether a meaningful improvement in physical performance following an in-season strength training intervention can be related to external load match parameters at an individual level in professional male football players. Methods Eight male professional football players (25.4 ± 3.1 years, 184.1 ± 3.4 cm, 79.3 ± 2.2 kg) completed a 10-week strength intervention period in addition to football-specific training an…
Characterising assurance
This paper presents an analysis of recent transformations in cyber security assurance, a field of evaluation that aims to establish whether technical products are secure. I work from a set of narratives about problems with assurance, drawn from interviews with practitioners based in the UK. I focus on characterisation: the stories practitioners tell, the cast of characters that populate them, and how such stories act to problematise the domain. M…
The volatility of trust
This paper examines how trust has been reconfigured in cybersecurity over the past 30 years, arguing that a ‘post-trust’ logic is increasingly shaping both technical architectures and organisational practices. Drawing on a critical historical analysis informed by the Social Construction of Technology, we juxtapose two prominent security models – Zero Trust (as developed at Google) and Distributed Trust (pioneered by the Tor Project) – and contend…
Reliability and criterion validity of the concept 2 SkiErgTM to assess 1,000-m on-snow, time trial performance—a case study
Objectives This study investigated the reliability and criterion validity of the Concept 2 SkiErgTM to assess 1,000-m on-snow, time trial performance using the classical double poling technique. Methods Ten athletes (5 males and females) from a National cross-country ski team participated in the study and completed a 1,000-m time trial on snow, as well as two 1,000-m time trials on the Concept 2 SkiErgTM in a temperature-controlled room during a …
Critical interdisciplinary cybersecurity
Insecure systems are systems that call for a fix. Vulnerabilities attract attention, motivate a response, and evoke futures of risk and repair. But determining what exactly is wrong with a system and what would count as an adequate fix are complex matters that cybersecurity practice must grapple with. How fixes pan out – as ‘quick fixes’ or obstinate problems, as temporary sticking-plasters or permanent solutions – depends on a wide range of fact…
Computer Science (6 works) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Global Security and Public Health (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)