Education

There has never been a more urgent need for strategists; those able to make sense of an increasingly complex and volatile world. We are responding to this challenge with a set of unique educational programmes to develop the leaders of the future; those who are determined not only to understand but to shape events.

Masters in Applied Security Strategy

Our MA Applied Security Strategy will be taught from October 2013 to meet the needs of current and future strategic practitioners and anyone who wishes to understand strategy in action. This interdisciplinary programme is designed to develop confident, critical thinkers with the potential to lead on the development and execution of policy and strategy in an uncertain, culturally-diverse and resource-constrained world.

The programme, which takes a sharp, highly-relevant and practitioner-targeted focus, employs simulations and fieldtrips alongside lectures, seminars and conferences with leading academics and practitioners to create and train experts in the fusion of strategic communications and intelligence to craft policy and strategy in the contemporary security arena.

Executive education and short courses

Alongside the Masters in Applied Security Strategy the Institute has developed a range of short courses and simulations for external partners and organisations. We are working with individuals and organisations to deliver applied innovative education, based on cutting-edge academic theory mixed with relevant practitioner experience. Among those courses on offer are the Armed Forces Joint Services Programme. Current courses on this programme include:

• Behaviour of Organisations  
• Leadership and Change
• Counter-Insurgency: Conventional War of the 21st Century
• Foreign Policy: Leadership, Power and Responsibility
• Leadership Matters: Contemporary Debates

Research degrees

Our research degrees provide opportunities to study with leading academics and practitioners who are specialists in strategy and security. We offer MPhil/PhD study and a one-year Masters by Research. We particularly welcome enquiries from students seeking to undertake research in our key impact areas. Funding is currently available for PhD students starting in 2013/14.