Dr Samantha Newbery

Lecturer in Contemporary Intelligence Studies

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• E: s.l.newbery@salford.ac.uk
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Semester two, 2012/13: Mondays, 12.30pm – 1.30pm

Dr Samantha Newbery joined the University of Salford as Lecturer in Contemporary Intelligence Studies in January 2010, shortly after submitting her PhD at Trinity College Dublin.

Modules Convened:

• Intelligence Ethics (MA level, distance learning)
• Security Networks, Intelligence and Internal Security (MA level, attendance and distance learning)
• British Counter-Insurgency since 1945 (level 6)
• Introduction to Intelligence and Security Studies (level 4)

Other Modules Contributed to:

• Issues in Intelligence (MA level, distance learning)
• Terrorism, Threat and Response (MA level, attendance and distance learning)
• Introduction to Contemporary Military History II (level 4)

I am willing to supervise undergraduate and Masters dissertations in intelligence ethics, contemporary intelligence issues, counter-insurgency and the contemporary history and politics of Northern Ireland.  I also welcome expressions of interest from potential PhD students.

My current research addresses the ethical issues raised by intelligence practices used in counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency contexts, and therefore the dilemmas faced by security practitioners and policymakers.

2011, PGCert Higher Education Practice and Research (University of Salford).

PhD History, 2010 (Trinity College Dublin).

MScEcon Intelligence Studies with Research Training, Distinction, 2004 (University of Wales, Aberystwyth).

BScEcon International Politics and Strategic Studies, 1^st class honours, 2003 (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Member of the Centre for European Security, University of Salford (since January 2010)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (since September 2011)

Samantha Newbery, Interrogation, Intelligence and Security: The Origins and Effects of Controversial British Techniques, 1964-2003, Manchester University Press, expected 2014.

Brian T.W. Stewart CMG and Samantha Newbery, Why Spy? Reflections on the Art of Intelligence, in progress, expected 2013/14.

Samantha Newbery, ‘The torture debate and the neglect of intelligence’, International Politics, forthcoming, 2013.

Samantha Newbery, ‘The contribution of interrogation during ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland, 1971-5’, in Simona Tobia and Christopher Andrew (eds), Interrogation in War and Conflict (forthcoming, June 2013), Routledge.

Samantha Newbery, ‘The study of interrogation: A focus on torture, but what about intelligence?’, in Christopher J Murphy and Christopher Moran (eds), Framing Intelligence History: The Historiography of British and American Secret Services since 1945 (forthcoming, March 2013), Edinburgh University Press & Columbia University Press.

Samantha Newbery, ‘Intelligence and controversial British interrogation techniques: The Northern Ireland case, 1971-2’, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 20, Nov. 2009, pp.103-119.

Samantha Newbery, Bob Brecher, Philippe Sands & Brian Stewart, ‘Interrogation, intelligence and the issue of human rights’, Intelligence and National Security, 24(5), Oct. 2009, pp.631-643.