Matt Sessions
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Matt is the director of our Missing Persons Investigation Unit. Matt has over 10 years of teaching experience and currently teaches across policing undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Matt has expertise in digital policing, cyber security, and ethical hacking. Matt supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students in cyber-related subjects.
Matt is currently working on his PhD, looking at developing a framework surrounding the use of digital technologies in missing persons investigations. Matt also works on projects with missing persons charities Locate International and MPIH (Missing Persons Information Hub).
Over the last ten years, Matt has taught Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking at various academic institutions. As well as lecturing, Matt has been involved in writing several degree programmes in the field of Cyber Security. Matt has contributed to the development of several pioneering courses, including developing the curriculum for the UK's first Career College (Career College North East) and co-writing one of the country’s first government-approved Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQ).
In 2019 Matt was a guest speaker at Dynamo North-East, discussing the latest trends in Cyber and the gender gap in STEM subjects.
- MSc, Cybercrime Investigation, UCLan, 2020
- Post Graduate Certificate Educational Training, University of Sunderland, 2013
- BSc, Ethical Hacking and Secure System Design, Sunderland University, 2012
- Missing Persons
- Cyber Security
- Ethical Hacking
- Digital Policing
- Criminal Law
- Digital Forensics
- FHEA
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Email: Email:Matt Sessions