• Ph.D. (Public Policy) Australian National University, 2011
• MA (Public Policy) Australian National University, 2000
• Graduate Diploma (Soviet Studies) University of Melbourne, 1991
• B.Eng. Monash University, 1986

• National security
• Internal security/homeland security
• Disaster management
• Comparative civil security
• UAE security history
• Thesis writing
• Public policy

• National security machinery of government
• Civil security organizations, arrangements and policy
• UAE security history
• UAE policy making

Peer-reviewed journals

• “Military Assistance as Political Gimmickry? The Case of Britain and the Newly Federated UAE,” Diplomacy & Statecraft (in press), with A Rossiter.
• “The Formation of Military Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates: 1965-1974,” Journal of Intelligence History (in press), with A Rossiter.
• “Intelligence Collection in Arabia: Britain’s Roaming Information-Gathers in the Trucial States, 1956-1971,” Intelligence and National Security (2020), with A Rossiter. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1741159
• “The British Military and the Anti-Locust Campaign across the Arabian Peninsula, Including the Emirates, 1942–1945,” Tribulus 27 (2019).
• “Explaining five decades of embedded western expatriates in the Armed Forces of the Emirates from 1965 to 2015.” Journal of Arabian Studies. (2016) December http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2016.1250388.
• “How civil aviation threatens national security.” Journal of Transportation Security (2014) 7: 227 (with N. Srinivasan), doi:10.1007/s12198-014-0141-7.
• ”A framework for studying mortality arising from critical infrastructure loss.” International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection(2014), 7: 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcip.2014.04.002.
• ”Death Modes from a Loss of Energy Infrastructure Continuity.” Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (2013) 10: 2, DOI: 10.1515/jhsem-2012-0048.

Book chapters

• “Building a Navy from Scratch in Just a Decade: The Abu Dhabi Sea Wing and Navy (1966-1976),” in Middle Eastern Naval History, ed. J. Dunn and D. Stoker (Solihull: Helion & Co, in press).
• “The Use of British Seconded and Contracted Military Personnel to Advance Britain’s Interests: A Case Study from the United Arab Emirates from 1965-2010,” in A History of Defense Engagement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, ed. G. Kennedy (Kansas: University Press of Kansas, in press).
• “The UAE’s National Security Machinery of Government,” in Handbook on UAE Security Studies, ed. W. Guéraiche and K. Alexander (UK: Routledge, in press).
• “Contracted Foreign Advisors in the Abu Dhabi Police Force: Explaining Their Enduring Presence from 2002 to 2015,” in Police Advising and Militarization, ed. D. Stoker and E.B. Westermann (Solihull: Helion & Co, 2018).

Books

• The Evolution of the UAE Armed Forces (Solihull: Helion & Co, in press).
• The Military and Polices Forces of the Gulf States: Trucial States & United Arab Emirates, 1951-1980 (Solihull: Helion & Co, 2019), with C. Lord.
• The Naval Force of Abu Dhabi 1967 – 1976 (Canberra: C-Pubs, 2019), with C. Lord.

Books edited

• Catastrophes, Crashes and Crimes in the UAE: Newspaper Articles from the 1980s (London: Medina Publications, in press).
• Catastrophes, Crashes and Crimes in the UAE: Newspaper Articles from the 1970s (London: Medina Publications, 2016)
• Western Isolation: The Perth Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic. (Canberra: Australian Security Research Centre, 2007).
• A Danger Greater Than War: NSW and the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic. (Canberra: Australian Security Research Centre, 2007).
• Lessons from the Past for Today’s Pandemic Planners and Officers. Proceedings of the First Australian Pandemic History Conference. (Canberra: Australian Security Research Centre, 2007).