Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Arts with Honours (UNSW-RMC 1982) – Thesis: Soviet Satellites and the MX ICBM – Awarded the Chief of the General Staff Medallion.

• Post Graduate Diploma in Information Management and Analysis.

• Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel and Resource Management.

• Master of Arts in Defence Studies (UNSW-ADFA 1995) – Awarded the UNSW Prize for Outstanding Performance in Defence Studies.

• Doctor of Philosophy (UNSW 2003) – Thesis: The Australian Defence Force in Transition: Responding to New Security Challenges.

 

Academic Appointments

• Chief of the Defence Force Scholarship Fellow (appointed for two years in a row in 1998 and 1999), Australian Defence Studies Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales.

• Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre.

• Director, Land Warfare Studies Centre. 

• Adjunct Professor in Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism, Centre for Policing Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism, Macquarie University.

• Associate Professor in Counter-Terrorism, Australian Graduate School of Policing, Charles Sturt University.

• Visiting Fellow in Intelligence, Australian Defence Studies Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy.

• UNSW Visiting Fellow, Australian Defence Force Academy.