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Mr Jeff Corkill

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5544
Email: j.corkill@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO18.320  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8390-0482

Jeff is a Lecturer in the School of Science.

Current Teaching

  • SCY1117 - Intelligence foundations
  • SCY3508 - Radicalism and political Extremism
  • SCY2120 - Applied intelligence
  • SCY2112 - Counterterrorism

Background

Jeff served in the Australian Army for 20 years. A graduate of the Royal Military College he served as an officer in the Australian Intelligence Corps. His post military career has included appointments in security management and security & intelligence consulting both in Australia and overseas.

Professional Associations

  • Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO) Member
  • International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) Board Member
  • International Studies Association (ISA) Member

Research Areas and Interests

  • Intelligence analysis, information and source evaluation, analyst attributes and intelligence education
  • Professional Intelligence Judgement Artistry, and resilience and security vetting

Qualifications

  • Master of Professional Studies (Transdisciplinary), University of Southern Queensland, 2007.
  • Graduate Diploma in Information Management and Analysis, Other WA higher ed institution, 1996.
  • Diploma in Applied Indonesian Language, Other WA higher ed institution, 1996.
  • Certificate in Human and Physical Resource Supervision, Other WA higher ed institution, 1993.
  • Associate Diploma in Personnel Administration, Other WA higher ed institution, 1993.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

  • Corkill, J., Brooks, D., Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., Harris, K., Ferguson, C., Harms, C. (2017). The use of resilience indicators to assist in the selection of personnel for employment in classified and covert environments. The Routledge International Handbook of Psychosocial Resilience (436-450). Routledge.

Journal Articles

  • Deering, T., Corkill, J. (2017). The intelligence analyst: Attributes, knowledge, skills and characteristics. The Journal of the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers, 25(1), 25-39.

Reports

  • Brooks, D., Corkill, J., Coole, M. (2017). A Literature Critique on The Efficacy of Pseudonyms: An investigation into Current Research and Application. Australia. Australian Taxation Office.

Book Chapters

  • Brooks, D., Corkill, J., Coole, M. (2016). The Australian Security Continuum: National and Corporate Security Gaps from a Surveillance Language Perspective. National Security, Surveillance and Terror: Canada and Australia in Comparative Perspective (133-154). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43243-4_6.

Conference Publications

  • Brooks, D., Coole, M., Johnson, C., Corkill, J., Jenkinson, M. (2015). Efficacy of property marking as situational crime prevention strategy. The Proceedings of 8th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (5-11). Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University.
  • Corkill, J., Deering, T., Ashton, E., East, A. (2015). Attributes of an analyst: What we can learn from the intelligence analysts job description. The Proceedings of [the] 8th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (36-42). Edith Cowan University. https://doi.org/10.4225/75/57a83ad2d2cf7.
  • Coole, M., Corkill, J. (2015). Does a weak security discourse provide opportunity for security deviance to flourish?. The Proceedings of [the] 8th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (43-49). Edith Cowan University. https://doi.org/10.4225/75/57a83c12d2cf8.

Book Chapters

  • Brooks, D., Corkill, J. (2014). Corporate security and the stratum of security management. Corporate Security in the 21st Century: Theory and Practice in International Perspective (216-234). Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

  • Corkill, J., Davies, A. (2013). The contemporary Australian intelligence domain. The AIPIO Journal, 21(2), 37-53.

Conference Publications

  • Davies, A., Corkill, J. (2013). The contemporary Australian intelligence domain: A multi dimension examination. The Proceedings of 6th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (9-17). Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.
  • Moss, S., Corkill, J., Gringart, E. (2013). An exploratory study of the lived experience of being an intelligence analyst. The Procecedings of the 6th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (40-47). Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.
  • Corkill, J., Coole, M. (2013). Security, control and deviance: Mapping the security domain and why it matters. Changing the way we think about change: Shifting boundaries, changing lives (142-149). University of Tasmania.

Conference Publications

  • Coole, M., Corkill, J., Woodward, A. (2012). Defence in depth, protection in depth and security in depth: A comparative analysis towards a common usage language. The Proceedings of the 5th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (27-35). Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.

Journal Articles

  • Corkill, J. (2011). Not art, not science, but artistry: Why Professional Artistry should matter to the intelligence community. The Journal of the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers, 19(1), 3-12.

Conference Publications

  • Joseph, J., Corkill, J. (2011). Information evaluation: How one group of intelligence analysts go about the task. Proceedings of the 4th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (97-103). Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.

Conference Publications

  • Griffiths, M., Brooks, D., Corkill, J. (2010). Defining the security professional: Definition through a body of knowledge. Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (44-52). Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.
  • Brooks, D., Corkill, J., Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., Ferguson, C., Harms, C. (2010). National security: A propositional study to develop resilience indicators as an aid to personnel vetting. Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (35-43). Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.

Conference Publications

  • Corkill, J. (2009). Intelligence Support to Law Enforcement: Untangling the Gordian Knot. Australian & New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings (60-68). Monash University.
  • Corkill, J. (2009). Professional Intelligence Judgement Artistry: Some early observations. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (28-32). Centre for Security Research, Edith Cowan University.

Journal Articles

  • Corkill, J. (2008). Evaluation a critical point on the path to intelligence. The Journal of the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers, 16(1), 3-11.

Conference Publications

  • Corkill, J. (2008). Professional Intelligence Judgement Artistry. Proceedings of the 1st Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (pp17 -25). Centre for Security Research, Edith Cowan University.

Research Projects

  • The Efficacy of Pseudonyms: An investigation into Current Research and Application, Australian Taxation Office, Grant, 2017, $20,000.

Research Student Supervision

Assistant Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Understanding Resilience in the Australian Security Vetting Process: Application of the Psycho-Social Resources for Resilience Scale - Vetting (PRRS-V)
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