Programme Leader, MA Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Salford
I have been a Lecturer in International History at Salford since January 2014. Before this I completed my AHRC funded doctoral research on intelligence and security during the post-war Attlee government, 1945-1951. My research looks at the post-war interface between intelligence and policy in Britain.
I teach on Britain's Cold War, post-1945 domestic security, the UK's foreign intelligence agencies and Twentieth Century international history. I am willing to supervise dissertations on a range of topics including Britain and the Cold War, British intelligence and security, and contemporary intelligence and security issues. Recent subjects include British policy towards the Soviet Union, 1945-1949, the impact of the Suez crisis on British decolonisation, the development of British counter-insurgency in Malaya and Kenya, and post-war strategic deception.
Russia report: intelligence expert explains how UK ignored growing threat
Jul 22, 2020 12:12 pm UTC| Politics
The new report from parliaments Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) on Russia is damning. The document certainly isnt a page-turner, and nor does it provide all the answers some had expected. But contrary to most ISC...
UK ambassador leaks: Donald Trump's reaction to Kim Darroch's criticism reeks of double standards
Jul 14, 2019 13:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Donald Trump has hit out again at the British ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch, following the leak of highly critical diplomatic cables about the White House and the president. In another Twitter outburst, Trump...
Trump accuses the UK of spying again – but intelligence agencies have learnt to ignore him
Apr 27, 2019 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trump has repeated unverified claims that Britains intelligence agencies spied on his 2016 presidential campaign, a day after Buckingham Palace confirmed he would make a three-day state visit to the UK in...
The Skripal case: a sense of déjà vu that poses problems for Britain
Sep 10, 2018 14:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Two Russian nationals have been named as suspects by the British government in the attempted murder of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in March 2018. The attack in the English town of Salisbury bears...
Trump versus the intelligence agencies – we've seen it all before
Mar 08, 2017 05:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trumps remarkable attacks on his own intelligence community may seem shocking to the casual observer but they are not without precedent. History is littered with the debris of this delicate and all too often...
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