
Dr Julia Slupska
BSc, MSc, DPhil
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Research Associate
School of Computer Science
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I work on improving digital security and privacy for marginalised and vulnerable groups.
I’m currently a Research Associate in Equitable Privacy at the University of Bristol, where I help organise privacy clinics for marginalised and vulnerable groups. My work brings together cybersecurity and feminist participatory methods to challenge whose security counts — and to redesign systems around care, safety, and equity.
I have also worked in policy and advocacy: at Ofcom, where I worked on preventing violence against women and girls in digital environments, and as Head of Policy, Campaigns and Research at Glitch, where I co-wrote a report on digital misogynoir across five platforms.
I completed a PhD in Cybersecurity at the University of Oxford, based at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity. My doctoral research examined cybersecurity in the context of intimate partner violence — an ethically complex, high-risk space where traditional threat models often fail. Through
participatory action research and interviews with frontline advocates, I developed feminist approaches to threat modelling that centre survivors of tech abuse.
Across all my work, I am interested in shifting cybersecurity from a paradigm of control and militarisation toward one grounded in safety, relationality, and justice.
You can explore my publications, reports, and talks to learn more about my work — or get in touch to collaborate.