I am Associate Professor of International Relations and Security Studies within the School for People, Environment and Planning at Massey University’s Albany Campus in Auckland, New Zealand.
I hold a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Australian National University and a PhD in Law from the University of Waikato. I also hold Masters degrees from the University of Canterbury and Victoria University of Wellington.
My teaching and research interests are mostly concerned with the ways in which political actors – from groups of intelligence and security professionals, governments and the wider international community – respond to various forms of political violence, including armed conflict, terrorism and mass atrocity. Other areas of interest include: surveillance, intelligence, policing, arms control, and diplomacy.
I am keen to collaborate with other researchers using critical or novel approaches to security and/or intelligence as a means of better understanding and explaining such phenomena as articulations of the politics of contemporary world affairs.
Before entering the academy, I spent nearly a decade working within New Zealand’s intelligence community, including at the Government Communications Security Bureau, Ministry of Defence, New Zealand Defence Force, and the Border Security Group of Immigration New Zealand.
