PACCS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Leadership Fellow in February 2015 and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

Professor David Galbreath was appointed as the Conflict Theme Leadership Fellow in February 2015 and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Bath in September 2016. David is also Professor of International Security David is Professor of International Security in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at the University of Bath. His research interests lie in the field of are in comparative national security and defence policy, as well as how science and technology affect war, conflict and violence. Professor Galbreath is also Director of the Centre for War and Technology and Editor-in-Chief of both European Security and Defence Studies. Since finishing his PhD in 2004 at the University of Leeds, he has been consistently working on foreign and security policy, including contributing to the international and European security components of the MSc in Strategic Studies at the University of Aberdeen until 2010. While he has often worked on the social inquiry around minority politics in Europe, he has been predominantly a security scholar since 2006 with his first work on conventional forces in Europe. Research interests Military and strategic theory Emergent Warfare Science and Technology advances Arms Control

At the time of his fellowship, which ran from January 2013 to January 2016, David Miller was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Bath. His research interests at the time included the role of communication in the constitution and reproduction of power relations. During this period, he also sat on the editorial board of the BSA Journal Sociology, and was a director of the non-profit company Public Interest Investigations (which runs the campaigning website Spinwatch.org and the wiki-based Powerbase.info).

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• Research Integrator - Transnational Organised Crime Theme
• TNOC Research Integrator

Dr Riley-Smith oversees the activities of PaCCS, and works to connect researchers and advocate for the dissemination of research findings in the areas of conflict, crime, and security research. From April 2013 to December 2016, Dr. Riley-Smith also served as the External Champion to the Partnership. As the External Champion, Tristram worked as a high-profile ambassador for the partnership, seeking to enhance opportunities for knowledge exchange by connecting researchers to government, industry and the third sector. He facilitated an Enhanced Impact Scheme for researchers, holds policy seminars and fellowship schemes and facilitates placements for researchers within government agencies. In his current role as Research Integrator, Tristram focuses on enhancing the economic and societal impact of the ‘Trans-National Organised Crime' (TNOC) initiative. Tristram invites researchers to contact him for support in delivering impact. Comments, ideas or insights about the partnership are also welcome. Before commencing his role as External Champion, Tristram spent over 25 years working as a specialist in defence, security and infrastructure protection in Whitehall. He was posted as a Counsellor to the British Embassy in Washington DC in 2002 and in recent years has established and run a Centre for Science, Knowledge & Innovation. Tristram studied Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He conducted doctoral research in the Kathmandu Valley, working among the Newari artists who create images of Buddhist and Hindu gods, and post-doctoral research in Thailand. He has recently drawn on this training as a social scientist in writing his portrait of the USA in the opening decade of the 21st Century, The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions of Liberty, which was published in 2010.

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• Communications Officer

Kate joined the Partnership as Communications Officer in September 2019. She works to enhance opportunities for knowledge exchange and impact through the implementation of the Partnership's communication strategy. In this capacity, she works closely with researchers and stakeholders in government, industry and the third sector to establish the Partnership as the leading source of research on current and future security challenges. She is responsible for guiding the Partnership's engagement online, handles media outreach, and coordinates the Partnership's programme of events. She regularly conducts interviews with academics which feature on the PaCCS blog. While working for the Partnership, Kate is also pursuing a PhD in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, where her work focuses on the politics of evidence and decision-making during health crises. Prior to joining the Partnership, Kate worked in Canadian politics. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons. with Distinction) in Political Studies and History from Queen's University at Kingston, and an MSc (Distinction) in Health and International Development from the London School of Economics. She wrote her dissertation on humanitarian decision-making at the end of emergency. She has also previously worked for the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and an alumnus of the European Forum Alpbach.

At the time of her appointment as a Fellow, Kim Knott was a Professor of Religious and Secular Studies at Lancaster University. Her work has focused on the study of religions, using sociological and geographical approaches to research relationships between the religious and the secular, and the location of religion in ostensibly secular institutions, bodies and discourses. She has researched religion in relation to diasporas and migration, ethnicity, terrorism, gender, identity and public life. She developed a spatial approach for studying religion in secular contexts, for examining its engagement with other social and cultural institutions and issues and for understanding secularist and other non-religious ideologies and beliefs.

At the time of his appointment as a Fellow, Robert Gleave was Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include Hermeneutics and Scriptural Exegesis in Islam; Islamic Law, in particular works of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh); Violence and its justification in Islamic thought; and Shi'ism, in particular Shi'i legal and political theory. At the time of his appointment, Robert was Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies and President of the British Institute of Persian Studies. He also held the position of Chair of the Advisory Board for the Higher Education Academy's Islamic Studies Network. In 2013, Robert was a Visiting Mellon Scholar at the University of Chicago. He has also been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem and a Visiting Scholar at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society.

At the time of his appointment as a Fellow, Professor Tom Sorell was Professor of Politics and Philosophy and Head of the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group at the University of Warwick. His research interests included moral and political philosophy and he has published extensively on the subject. His research at the time of his fellowship focused on the moral and political issues raised by emergencies, including terrorist emergencies.