The Seventh Quarterly Newsletter is live!

The seventh Quarterly Newsletter by the International Biosecurity Education Network (IBSEN) examines implementation of education initiatives from the broader CBRN education field to identify and inform best practices in pedagogical methodologies for effective biosecurity education with a particular focus on “active learning”. This issue also reports on the successful activities undertaken by LMU Biological Security Research Centre … Read more

BSRC workshop report: The Impact of Emerging and Converging Technologies on Biosecurity and its Education

In October 2025, a policy workshop titled ‘The Impact of Emerging and Converging Technologies on Biosecurity and its Education: a scoping workshop’ held by the London Metropolitan University Biological Security Research Centre (LMU BSRC) brought together international experts from academic institutions, civil society, coalitions and industry as well as members of the BSRC Staff. The … Read more

BSRC Director highlights the importance of biosecurity education and the IBSEN in new Nature correspondence

This week, the IBSEN’s Professor Lijun Shang and Professor Malcolm Dando published a clear call to action to States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention to establish an International Biological Security Education Network (IBSEN) in the highly esteemed journal Nature. The short correspondence article draws attention to the recent meeting of the Working … Read more