Before entering academia I worked for seven years within the security industry. My PhD in Politics and International Relations was conferred by Newcastle University. Now employed at Northumbria University, I lecture in modules on Terrorism, Genocide, and Governance. I have also written various articles and a monograph on the issues of foreign and defence policy post 9/11.
Newcastle University, PhD Politics and International Relations
2002
Newcastle University, MA Politics (Research)
2001
Northumbria University, BA (Hons) European Studies with German
Publications
2013
The challenges of information and communications technologies for transnational efforts at Homeland Security education, Journal of Applied Security Research
2012
The Precautionary Principle in International Relations: Constructing Foreign and Defense Policy in an Age of Uncertainty,
2012
Exploring Homeland Security Education across the Atlantic, Journal of Homeland Security Education
2010
Misleading and dangerous: the use of the precautionary principle in foreign policy debates, Medicine, Conflict and Survival
2009
Risk assessment, policy-making and the limits of knowledge: the precautionary principle and international relations, International Relations
2008
The management of risk in foreign and defence policy: the precautionary principle and decisions on war, Medicine, Conflict and Survival
2006
A precautionary approach to foreign policy? A preliminary analysis of Tony Blair’s speeches on Iraq, British Journal of Politics and International Relations
Grants and Contracts
2009
Policy project in benchmarking international homeland security education