Many of our teaching academics are also “research active” and participate in industry-renowned research and publication outside of the University’s specialist centres. This may be in the form of collaborations with partner institutions or fellow academics, independent works, or particpating in large research groups.
Our academics are known for their contributions to the various canons of their specialisms, and are often invited to be key notes speakers at conferences around the world.
To read more about the research activities of Buckingham’s staff, please visit our Staff Directory to view our academics and their work.
The University of Buckingham Press publishes authoritative, independent research and academic works by Buckingham staff and others in both journals and books.
A Guide to National Security offers an analysis of the threats and policy responses facing the UK, presented within the framework of the Government’s National Security Strategy and the Strategic Defence and Security Review. Read more
Dr Julian Richards examines the question of resurgent Far Right militancy and politics in the UK in the contemporary era, with a particular focus on the English Defence League (EDL), which emerged in 2009. Read more
Professor Anthony Glees and Dr Julian Richards evaluate the twin-track strategy within best-practice counter-terrorism policy that couples domestic with external security issues. Read more
This report highlights a serious market failure around the process of recruiting workers for security cleared Government roles.
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This article argues that the concept of ‘international terrorism” provides a useful means of understanding one of the major security threats now facing the global community. Read more
Review of GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency by Richard J. Aldrich
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Basic practices such as vetting are as important to security as the armed forces but the UK government is not taking it seriously enough. Read more
This handbook presents policy-makers and practitioners with a final opportunity to make critical changes to optimise national security, months before the Opening Ceremony of the biggest peacetime event to take place in the UK. Read more
On 11 September 2001, the Al Qaeda-sponsored attacks in New York and Washington DC marked a turning point in global security. The worldwide impact demonstrated not only that no country is an island, but also raised questions about the way the intelligence community gather its data, analysed it, and disseminated it up to the policymakers. Some of these questions concerned the very tradecraft of intelligence – the process of analysis itself. This book deconstructs the profession of intelligence analysis in the contemporary, globalised world, and asks: is it an art, a science, or both? Read more