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Module Leaders and Academic Staff

Module Leaders

Ann Fitz-Gerald

Security Sector Environment, Governance and Oversight

Ann Fitz-Gerald is a Senior Reader in Cranfield University 's Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis and the Associate Dean (Research). She holds degrees in Commerce, International Relations, Security Studies and Defence Management and Security Analysis (DMSA). Her PhD examined the impact national disparities with multinational military forces could have on sustainable development programmes running simultaneously with peace support operations in post-conflict states. Following an initial career in the financial sector, she held posts at the Pearson International Peacekeeping Training Centre and NATO Headquarters in Brussels . After leaving policy for academia, she joined King's College, London University as a research programme manager in the Centre for Defence Studies with a move two years later to the academic staff within DMSA at Cranfield University .

She is currently a Board member for the Institute for Research on Public Policy and Special Adviser for Foreign Policy for the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies (CISS). Ann has worked on national security and security sector management issues for 14 years and is widely published in this field. Her most recent book is an edited volume entitled From Conflict to Community: A Combatant's Return to Citizenship . Ann has worked in both research and practitioner capacities in Africa, Asia, South-East Europe and the Caribbean . She led the Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) between 2002-2006 and has project-managed a number of other UK Government projects including Securing Humanitarian Space, the Development of Performance-based-metrics for evaluating humanitarian and development programmes , Evaluating the impact of defence education programmes on joined-up government conflict prevention objectives and a FCO-funded project on Failed and Collapsed States .

Guest Speakers

  • Rt Hon Clare Short – MP
  • David Chuter - UK MoD seconded to French MoD
  • Brigadier Dennis Blease - Senior SSR Adviser, NATO
  • Sharath Srinivasan - Oxford University

Professor Derrick Neal

Strategic Planning for Security and Development

Derrick has a background in Engineering, a PhD in fluid mechanics and a MBA from Cranfield University . He has worked in the defence industry with Vickers and Small and Medium Enterprises both in technical roles and as a Marketing Director. After a brief period overseas where he taught at MBA level he returned to the UK in 1998 and jointed Cranfield University . He is Professor of Defence Strategic Change and Dean of Faculty at the Defence College of Management and Technology. Derrick has a particular interest in Strategy and Change management issues generally and has a specific interest in the public sector. He is an active researcher and publishes in these areas. Professor Neal also teaches widely in developing countries on a range of management topics in the context of developing governance structures, management structures and systems and in the process of democratisation. He runs a Masters course in Indonesia and regularly travels to teach in Ghana .

Professor Neal is also a Non-Executive Director of the DCSA and Chair of an External Reference group working with a 2* group in the DLO. He is the UK representative of an international group that meets in the USA to advise on Transformational Change in Defence. He also consults on a range of topics to commercial organisations and to not-for-profit organisations.

Guest Speakers

  • Charlie Edwards – DEMOS
  • Ivar Hellberg - Cranfield University
  • Jonathan Hargreaves - UK Governments Stabilisation Unit
  • Rob Parker – Saferworld
  • Gordon Hughes - Director, CSSM (Currently seconded to the UN as Senior SSR Adviser)
  • Brigadier Robert Rusoke – Chief of Staff, Government of Uganda

Dr Roger Darby

Managing Security Sector Resources

Dr Darby, a specialist in international human resource management and organisational behaviour, holds a DPhil from the University of Sussex , a MEd from the University of Birmingham and a BA (Hons) from the University of Warwick . Prior to joining Cranfield University he has held a number of academic appointments including at the University of Birmingham Business School, the European Business School (London), Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and Oxford Brookes University. In addition, internationally he has continued to hold visiting professorships in the former Czechoslovakia , Bulgaria , Hungary , Germany , South Africa , Singapore and China . More recently he has held appointments at the Higher Colleges of Technology and the American University in Dubai in the Middle East .

His professional expertise includes consultancy and training work with a wide variety of firms in Europe and other parts of the world.

At Cranfield University he was recently responsible for the development and has become the Academic Leader for the first MSc IHRM (Defence) course run at Shrivenham in conjunction with the School of Management . He is also is heavily involved in research and teaching on the MDD courses run at Shrivenham and many regions across the world including Africa, South East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Dr Darby's research has been presented at international conferences and published in academic and professional journals such as the European Business Review, Journal of European Industrial Training, Asian Pacific Business Review, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management. His most recent research is on the cross-cultural effects on Knowledge Management.

Professor Ron Matthews

The Economics of Security

Ron Matthews is Professor of Defence Economics in the Department of Defence Management & Security Analysis, Cranfield University , Shrivenham. He holds an MBA from Warwick University and a PhD in Development Economics from Glasgow University . Professor Matthews' research interests focus on defence industrialisation (particularly in relation to Asia-Pacific), countertrade, technology transfer and civil-military integration. He has been awarded Research Fellowships from NATO and the World Bank, has been a visiting Researcher at the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace (Stanford University), Capetown University, the National University of Singapore and the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, and is visiting Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and also at the Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia. Professor Matthews has lectured at Harvard University and numerous other universities and institutions in North America,Europe and the Far East . He has also written and edited several books and numerous articles on defence industrialisation. The most recent publication (co-edited with Jack Treddenick) is entitled Managing the Revolution in Military Affairs. In 2006, Professor Matthews provided evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on the UK Defence Industrial Strategy.

Guest Speakers

  • Dr Anke Hoeffler - Oxford University
  • Panel chaired by the Rt Hon Clare Short, including the following panel members:
    • Professor Laurence Whitehead, University of Oxford
    • Joan Link, Head of Conflict Issues Group, FCO
    • Wendy Gilmour, Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada
    • Rob Wilkinson, Deputy Director for Policy and Research, Department for International Development
    • Eric Westropp CBE, Director, Control Risks Group

Mr Aidan Turner

Managing Security Sector Programmes and Projects

Aidan recently joined Cranfield University as a Lecturer in Project Management, based at Shrivenham. He has a history in Project and Programme management working in both the Defence and Financial Service Industries.

Whilst working within the Defence Sector he ran programmes readying Agencies for privatisation and taking them through the privatisation process itself. Within the Financial sector Aidan has managed a number of cutting edge IT based projects, implemented a number of 3rd party sales partnerships and managed the delivery of new products and IT system for UK based multi national companies.

Having graduated from Reading University in Economics and completing his MBA, Aidan is now APMP and Prince 2 qualified.

Guest Speakers

  • Wendy Gilmour – Director of International Security and Peace Operations, Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada
  • Stephen Anderton – Head of Project Services, Armour Group
  • Daniel O’Donoghue – ATOS Consulting
  • Andy Garnham – Project Management, UK MoD
  • Simon Springett – OXFAM
  • Jonathan Moss – Coffey International, Baghdad

Mr Steve Gibson

Managing Risk

Steve is a Research Fellow within the Resilience Centre, Cranfield University, the defence Academy of the United Kingdom, where he lectures on risk management and security, as well as researching a PhD into the exploitation of open source intelligence and its effect upon the intelligence function. He leads the bi-annual Risk and Security Management course for risk and security managers and consultants. He spent 10 years in the Armed Forces, 6 years running a private limited company, and latterly 3 years helping establish a private information brokerage. Steve has published on risk awareness, risk theory and intelligence. He is the author of “The Last Mission” and is on the steering committee of the UK Oxford Intelligence Group.

Guest Speakers

  • Prof Ed Borodzicz - University of Portsmouth

Ms Annie Maddison

Information Management and the Role of Intelligence

Annie Maddison previously worked at the Joint Services Command and Staff College and at Oxford University . She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Post-Compulsory Education from Oxford Brookes University , a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Science from City University , London and a Cranfield Masters degree in Corporate Management. She has taught on a range of full, part time and distance learning undergraduate, postgraduate and short courses. She is currently studying for a PhD looking at the value of information to defence. Her primary research at present is her PhD, which concerns systems failure, organisational learning and knowledge management, but she is also interested in defence information and e-business.

Professor Keith Grint

Change Management and Leadership

Keith Grint is Professor of Defence Leadership at Cranfield University and Deputy Principal (Leadership and Management) at the Defence College of Management and Leadership within the Defence Academy in Shrivenham. Previously he was Professor of Leadership Studies and Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre at Lancaster University Management School . Before that he was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College , University of Oxford . Keith spent 10 years in industry before switching to an academic career.

He is a founding co-editor of the journal Leadership published by Sage http://lea.sagepub.com/ , and founding co-organizer of the International Conference in Leadership Research. He remains a Visiting Research Professor at Lancaster, a Fellow of the Saïd Business School, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, a research arm of the UK's National School of Government. He wrote the literature review for ‘Strengthening Leadership in the Public Sector' (2000) a project of the Performance and Innovation Unit (Cabinet Office), see http://www.number-10.gov.uk/su/leadership/08/default.htm . His books include The Sociology of Work 3 rd edition (2005); Management: A Sociological Introduction (1995); Leadership (ed.) (1997); Fuzzy Management (1997); The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Society, (with Steve Woolgar) (1997); The Arts of Leadership (2000); O rganizational Leadership (with John Bratton and Debra Nelson); and Leadership: Limits and Possibilities (2005).

Dr Peter Tatham

Building Operational Capacity

Peter Tatham joined the Royal Navy in 1970 and served in a variety of appointments both during his career of some 35 years. Highlights include Logistics Officer of the Aircraft Carrier HMS INVINCIBLE in 1994/5 during Operations in Bosnia against the Former Republic of Yugoslavia and Chief Staff Officer responsible for all high level Personnel and Logistics issues emanating from the 10,000 sailors and 30 surface ships in the Royal Navy (1999-2000). His final three years in the Service were spent in the Defence Logistics Organisation where he was responsible for key elements of the internal programme of Change Management (2000-2004). During this period, he also gained an MSc in Defence Logistic Management. Following his retirement from the RN, he joined the staff of Cranfield University where he lectures on Defence and Humanitarian Logistics. He is also carrying out his Doctoral research into the issues surrounding the role of shared values within military supply networks.

Dr Sylvie Jackson

Performance Management

Sylvie joined Cranfield University as a Senior Lecturer at the Defence Academy of the UK in 1999 after a period of consultancy work and a lengthy career in The Post Office where she started as a counter clerk and rose to Quality and Business Process Director for Purchasing and Logistics. Other roles included training counter clerks, sales, customer care and total quality management. Her qualifications include a PhD in Transformational Change, MBA and Postgraduate Diplomas in both Management Studies and Marketing, all achieved whilst working full time. She has a range of publications which include journal articles and chapters in books and has spoken at more than fifty conferences. Consultancy work has recently been undertaken with various departments in the MoD and with GCHQ. Sylvie teaches on a range of Masters Degrees and short courses and has developed a number of successful short courses.

Mrs Hilary Pearce

Managing Public Security and the Rule of Law

Hilary studied law at Newcastle -upon Tyne University before undertaking the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law in London . She is a member of Middle Temple and was admitted to the Bar in 2000. She has since worked in London and Amsterdam specialising in international arbitration and litigation. Keen to further develop the application of her legal skills to post-conflict and development contexts, Hilary went on to complete an MSc in Global Security at Cranfield University .

Hilary now works as a lecturer within Cranfield's DMSA. She manages her own subsection of the www.ssronline.org website, focusing on Justice and Public Security. She is also undertaking individual projects and research within the arena of justice and public security, including research into alternative methodologies for justice sector reform in post-conflict states. She is also investigating issues linked to methods and approaches to evaluating and monitoring justice sector reform and the impact of impunity on transitional justice programmes. Hilary also leads a number of consultancy projects run by the Centre for Security Sector management including the FCO's Knowledge Management System supporting International Policing and the Rule of Law.

Academic Staff

Professor Trevor Taylor

Governance and Oversight

Professor Taylor is Head of the Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis at Cranfield University 's faculty at the Defence Academy of the UK . He was previously Professor of International Relations at Staffordshire University and between 1990 and 1993 was Head of the International Security Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (‘Chatham House’) in London . He is a past Chairman of the British International Studies Association and has been Visiting Professor at the National Defence Academy in Tokyo .

Professor Taylor takes a close interest in the UK Smart Acquisition initiative and teaches defence acquisition on his Department's Master in Defence Administration, Defence Logistics Management and Defence Acquisition Management degrees. He contributes also to the seven-week and two-week courses on the Management and Governance of Defence that support the UK 's Conflict Prevention initiatives.

In 1999 he facilitated the initial short courses in Smart Acquisition training for staff of the MoD's Equipment Capability Customer and he was appointed in the summer of 2000 as the leader of the Non-Advocate Review Team for Project Bowman, a peer review group supporting the IPT Leader and reporting to the (former) Equipment Approvals Committee. He was elected to the Council of the Defence Manufacturers' Association in 2001 and re-elected in 2004. He was appointed as a member of the Markets sub-group of the Department of Trade and Industry Aerospace Innovation & Growth team in September 2002. In 2006 he formed part of the industrial consultation panel for the MoD's Sustained Armoured Vehicle Capability Pathfinder group, which was set up as part of the British Defence Industrial Strategy document of 2005.

He has published extensively on European security and defence industrial issues. His article entitled “The Delineation of Defense Equipment Projects in the UK Ministry of Defense” was published in Defense and Security Analysis in June 2004 (Vol.20 No.2), his article “Governments and Industry” was published in RUSI Defense Systems , Summer 2004 (Vol.7 No.1) and his article “The Place of Management in Defence (and Defence Education)” was published in the RUSI Journal (Vol 150 No 2) pp 24-28, April 2005.

Other recent publications and presentations include chapters on ‘The Functions of a Defence Ministry' and ‘Defence Acquisition' in L.Cleary & T.McConville (eds), Managing Defence in a Democracy, Routledge, London, 2006; `Globalisation in the Defence Industry’ in Defence and Peace Economics (Vol.12 No 3/4); joint editorship of A Comparison of the Defense Acquisition Systems of France, Great Britain, Germany and the United States , (Virginia, Defense Systems Management College Press, 1999); ‘Europe's revolution in defence industrial affairs’ in R.Matthews (ed) Managing the Revolution in Military Affairs (London, Palgrave 2001); and ‘Arms Procurement ’ in J Howarth and A Menon The European Union and National Defence Policy (London, Routledge, 1997). His writing on Smart Procurement includes pieces in the RUSI Journal (April 98 and June 99) and an article “Smart Procurement and the aerospace sector” in the International Journal of Aerospace Management , June 2001 (Vol 1 No 2).

Dr Laura Cleary

Governance and Oversight

Dr Laura Cleary joined Cranfield University in July 2002 as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence Management & Security Analysis. Prior to taking up this appointment she was a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling (1994 - 2002).

Dr Cleary received her BA in Politics and History from Indiana University and her PhD from the University of Glasgow . The subject of her doctoral work was defence conversion in the former Soviet Union and Russia , with the focus principally on the political/economic rationale for and the social ramifications of the adoption of such a policy. This initial study formed the basis for a comparative study of defence conversion in Russia and the United States ( Security Systems in Transition, 1998). Subsequent works have focussed on the process of defence transformation throughout East Central Europe (ECE) and the application of democratic, civilian control of the military. She has conducted a number of parliamentary workshops on this subject throughout the region and in Asia and Africa, acted as a consultant for MoDs and Parliaments in both ECE and Africa, edited a training manual for the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence ( Civil-Military Relations: A Guide , 1999) and written a number of articles on defence reform and civil-military relations, as well as on NATO-Russian relations. She is the co-editor of Managing Defence in a Democracy (2006), which explores issues pertaining to the effective governance and management of defence in transitional democracies.

Dr Cleary is currently the Academic Director for the UK MoD's sponsored Defence Diplomacy courses and is the Director of Research for DMSA.

Dr Teri McConville

Managing Security Sector Resources

Dr. Teri McConville gained practical management experience in the public sector. Following professional training and a commission in PMRAFNS, she moved into the NHS. There she worked as a Nursing Officer and Nurse Teacher, with responsibility for professional development of up to 1000 staff, and took her turn to manage a 500-bed hospital.

Teri went into higher education fairly late in life - which meant that she could get a Young Person's Railcard as a 40 th birthday gift! Her first degree was in Human Resource Management with Computer Science. She was awarded her PhD for a thesis analysing the rules of discursive formation governing managerial decisions. Additionally she holds a Teachers Certificate ( Manchester ) and a Post-graduate Diploma in Social Research. She is co-editor of Defence Management in Uncertain Times (Cass, 2003) , and Managing Defence in a Democracy (Routledge, 2006), and co-ordinator for the Cranfield Defence Management Conferences.

Dr. McConville lectures in organisational behaviour and is module manager for all input in her specialist subject. She is an active member of the Defence Diplomacy Scholarship Scheme teaching team and lectures in defence management on international courses. Within DMSA Teri is deputy director of research and, in the wider college, teaches research methods for PhD and other research students. Her current research interests concern the work and role of middle line managers; rhetoric and discourse concerning gendered roles in the military; the dynamics of human atrocities; and issues surrounding the recruitment and retention of Service personnel.

Mr Gordon Hughes

Building Operational Capacity

Gordon Hughes is a former UK Regional Conflict Adviser in Southern Africa . He has senior military experience in conflict prevention work, security sector transformation, post conflict reconstruction, diplomacy and nation-building in Africa and Bosnia . In his role as Regional Conflict Adviser, he advised governments and British Heads of Mission in Africa; supported FCO, DFID and MOD through the Africa Conflict Prevention Pool (ACPP) in Whitehall , London ; and also worked alongside the African security sector networks. His recent appointments include Commander British Forces (including the International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMATT)) in Sierra Leone , and Commander BMATT South Africa where he has led initiatives within the security sector on integration and training. Gordon is a Charted Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies in London .

Dr David Moore

Building Operational Capacity

David Moore worked in purchasing, logistics and supply chain management within public sector and commercial organisations before entering academia. With the University of Glamorgan , he developed and delivered Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) courses for organisations such as British Airways, London Underground and the Civil Service College.  These were followed by the development and leadership of the MBA full time and part time programmes, as well as the MBA ‘by Directed Learning in Bahrain'.  In 1996, he joined Cranfield University where he initiated the BSc (Hons) Management and Logistics course and then the MSc Defence Logistics Management.  Most recently he designed, developed and delivered the MSc Defence Acquisition Management course for which he is now Course Director.  He has undertaken extensive education, training, and consultancy assignments in the UK , USA , Europe, Middle East and Far East for organisations such as Shell, British Gas, NHS, Welsh Office, Coca Cola , Qatar Steel and the Arab Ship Repair Yard.  He has also spoken at conferences around the globe.   Particular interests include outsourcing, the use of contractors for service provision and developing effectiveness through professionalism.  He has written a number of books and book chapters plus conference and journal papers.  David served in the RLC (TA) until 1999 and held both staff and CO appointments as Lt Colonel.  His doctoral research was focused upon ‘Knowledge as the Basis of Professionalism in Procurement, Logistics and Supply Chain Management'.   He has been interested for some time in the commercialised approaches to logistics and their application in humanitarian aid scenarios and especially the use of military logistics solutions within such situations.

Mr Piet Biesheval

Managing Public Security and the Rule of Law