Christopher J. Murphy

Chris Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the University of Salford, and Programme Leader for MA Intelligence and Security Studies.

He is interested in the history of the British intelligence community, from the origins of the Security Service (MI5) and Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or MI6) in 1909 to the present day. He has specific research interests in the work of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War and the historiography of intelligence studies.