Philip Davies (sociologist)

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Philip HJ Davies (born before 1984) is a British sociologist and political scientist .

Life

Davies studied sociology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario (BA (Hons) 1984). After receiving his MA in Social and Political Thought in 1987 from York University in Toronto, Ontario, he completed his PhD (Thesis: Organizational Development of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1979 ) in Sociology at the University of Reading with Ken Robertson in 1997 .

He then taught at the University of London External Degree Program in Singapore and was an editorial consultant for Asian Defense and Diplomacy magazine . In 1999 he returned to Reading as a lecturer in sociology. From 2001 to 2003 he was Associate Professor of International and Strategic Studies at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He received a postgraduate certificate as a university lecturer in 2006 from Brunel University in London. He became a Senior Lecturer and then Full Professor of Politics and History at the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University. Since 2008 he has been head of the Brunel Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS). He co-founded this in 2003 and initiated a master's degree.

From 2010 to 2012 Davies was a member of the MoD Steering Committee on Intelligence Doctrine and from 2010 to 2014 External Examiner at the University of Salford . He has been a member of the Oxford Intelligence Group Steering Committee since 2004 and of the Peer Review College since 2010 . He is also a member of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (in 1994 he co-founded the Security and Intelligence Studies Group there) and the International Studies Association . He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Intelligence and National Security and the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda in Toronto, Ontario.

Fonts (selection)

  • The British secret services (1996)
  • MI6 and the machinery of spying (2004)
  • Intelligence and Government in Britain and the United States (2012)
  • Intelligence Elsewhere (with Kristian Gustafson, 2013)

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personal data
SURNAME Davies, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davies, Philip HJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1984