BUCSIS has a vibrant programme of active research currently being undertaken in a range of security and intelligence issues, involving both the UK and overseas.
We are always looking for interesting new research proposals, and prospective candidates are welcome to approach Professor Richards with ideas in the first instance, by emailing julian.richards@buckingham.ac.uk.
Some of our current research projects include:
- Muhammad Tahir Mahmood is researching the judicial system, security and intelligence agencies and counter-terrorism in Pakistan under the question of “The Role of the Judicial System and Law Enforcement Agencies in Combating Terrorism”
- Bryony Norburn is working on intelligence history and Bletchley Park, researching the role that women played at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
- Richard Hallows is researching cybersecurity policy in the UK.
- Diva Patang Wardak is conducting an evaluation of Afghanistan’s new intelligence agency, the NDS.
- Andreja Bogdanovski is currently examining the reasons behind states’ involvement in the process of securing ecclesiastical independence in the Eastern Orthodox Church, with special reference to the churches in North Macedonia, Montenegro and Ukraine.
- Awwal Isa is investigating how academia could bolster professionalism in the Nigerian intelligence community
- Fidel Abowei is exploring the potency of soft power as a tool of statecraft in inter-African relations and how likely it is to yield tangible foreign policy outcomes
About BUCSIS
BUCSIS was established in 2008 as a world-class centre for research into the key Security and Intelligence issues facing the UK and the world in the 21st century. The Centre is headed by a leading academic in the field, Professor Anthony Glees, and is supported by a research and teaching team led by Dr Julian Richards, a Security Studies specialist with a long experience of working in the UK government on defence and security policy issues. More information about BUCSIS.
See also:
- Recent testimonials from BUCSIS students
- Read about what the BUCSIS teaching team has been working on (Summer 2017)
Successful graduates
2012
- Megan Munroe (PhD): A morphological analysis of sporting mega-even security policy
- Randy Wilson (PhD): Police intelligence in a counter-insurgency. Read more about Randy’s experiences.
2014
- Twana Bawa (PhD): The privatisation of security in the Kurdish region of Iraq
2016
- Eugene Eji (PhD): Terrorism in Nigeria: Threats, responses and strategy
- Tony Percy (PhD): Liberal Democracy under Stress: the Oxford Mind and the Threat of Totalitarianism
- Edmar Salem (PhD): Female Suicide Bombers: a Comparative Study of Public Attitudes within the Conflicts of Iraq, Israel/Palestine, and Sri Lanka
- Giles Wollenmann (PhD): Liberal Intolerance: Applying Borum’s phase model to help identify an in-group’s susceptibility towards ideological development
- Mohamed Salem (PhD): Iran and Threat Perception in the Arabian Gulf: A Case Study of the UAE
2019
- Olamide Samuel (PhD): Analysis of national security culture in Nigeria