Chevening India Cyber Security Fellowship 2025/2026 for mid-career professionals (Fully Funded)

Application Deadline: 10 October 2024

Applications are now open for the 2025/2026 Chevening India Cyber Security Fellowship. The Chevening India Cyber Security Fellowship is aimed at mid-career professionals with demonstrable leadership potential in the field of cyber security or cyber policy in India. The fellowship is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.

The fellowship is hosted by Cranfield University, at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Shrivenham Campus).

Eligibility 

To be eligible for a Chevening Cyber Security Fellowship, you must:

• Be a citizen of India and currently live in the country.
• Return to your country of citizenship at the end of the period of the fellowship.
• Not hold British or dual-British citizenship.
• Have at least seven years’ relevant work experience prior to applying.
• Have a postgraduate level qualification and an excellent academic background in science, engineering, or technology, or equivalent professional training, or experience in a relevant area at the time of application.
• Have significant relevant work experience in cyber security or cyber policy issues. Relevant experience could come from policy organisations, academia, corporate law, law enforcement, or journalism.
• Have an excellent academic background in science, engineering or technology, or considerable experience of working in such fields.
• Have a good working knowledge of English to be assessed in your application form and if you are invited to interview.
• Have a demonstrable record of leadership and/or innovation.
• Agree to adhere to all relevant guidelines and expectations of the fellowship
• Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, a sponsoring UK university, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Benefits

• Full programme fees.
• Living expenses for the duration of the fellowship.
• Return economy airfare from India to the UK.

Programme structure

This ten-week fellowship provides fellows with an understanding of policy and legislative approaches in cyber security and its implications for national security, commercial opportunity, crime prevention, and the right to privacy.

Throughout the programme, fellows will work on an individual research paper which will be presented at the end of the course. The fellowship runs from mid March through end of May.

The fellowship will focus on:

• Cyber threats, including: the threat landscape, threat and risk assessment, the implications for national security, and the relevance of internet governance structures; and the protection of critical national infrastructure.
• The economics of online business, cyber-security consumer awareness and consumer protection, technology adoption challenges, the relevance of open source, and effective technology adoption by consumers.
• Cyber-crime and internet law, including the economic impact of cyber-crime, domestic and international approaches to countering cyber-crime, internet law, law enforcement concerns, privacy concerns, the use and abuse of social media, and accountability in cyberspace.
• Relevant issues and challenges particular to the UK and India.

Alumni from this fellowship include individuals working in cyber security, law enforcement, policy organisations, corporate lawyers and practicing advocates, and technology journalists.

Application Timeline:

Please note this timeline is subject to change.

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