Venture across Britain and you’ll hear a new accent for every mile you go, with some 40 identifiable accents across the nation. Turn on your TV or radio, however, and you’ll be hard-pressed to hear a prominent regional accent.

Megan Ioannides spoke to the founders of CAPSLOCK, a leading cyber security re-skilling boot camp, to further understand the gendered gap in engagement with cyber.

With over 30 years of combined experience under their belts, including within academia, private consultancy and of course CAPSLOCK, they shared their take-aways, experiences and understandings of why the cyber industry, particularly in the UK, continues to be dominated by men.

Every year when a new academic term begins and students rush back to their university cities, we prepare to return to cheap living and a busy social calendar. However, since the cost-of-living crisis was announced in 2022, the student experience has dramatically changed.