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Dr Gavin Briggs

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: g.briggs@ecu.edu.au

Current Teaching

  • SCY1118 Security Foundations
  • SCY3506 Counter Intelligence
  • SCY2112 Counterterrorism

Background

Dr Briggs has substantial undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience in International Relations, Security and Strategic Studies. He has many years of professional experience in the public and private sectors, in defence, strategy and intelligence. In government, he’s worked for State Members of Parliament and two Cabinet Ministers, Department of the Premier & Cabinet (WA), Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, and Department of Health & Ageing (Pandemic Preparedness). Teaching experience first included being a sessional tutor in politics and sociology (UWA and Curtin University), then during 1998-2007, as a sessional tutor with the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme, Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University. While in senior roles in government, he was a part-time lecturer before articulating that into a full-time position as a Clinical Professional Fellow, and later as Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator with the Graduate Program in International Relations and National Security, Curtin University. More recently, he was a Strategic Intelligence Manager for a risk consultancy, while an Adjunct Senior Fellow at Curtin and later, as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at ECU.

Professional Memberships

  • 2008 – Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (Member)
  • 2026 – International Association for Intelligence Education (Member)
  • 2026 – ASIS International (Member)

National and International Research Positions

Defence Research and Student Community – Australia (Member)

Research Areas and Interests

  • Information Operations
  • Cognitive Warfare
  • Intelligence Studies
  • Defence and Strategic Studies

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Curtin University, 2023
  • Master of Arts (Strategy & Security), UNSW, 2017
  • Graduate Certificate in Criminal Intelligence, Charles Sturt University, 2009
  • Master of Strategic Affairs, Australian National University, 2006
  • Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (Politics), University of Western Australia, 1993
  • Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences), Curtin University of Technology, 1991

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Curtin University of Technology, 2023.
  • Master of Arts in Strategy and Security, The University of New South Wales, 2017.
  • Master of Strategic Affairs, The Australian National University, 2016.
  • Graduate Certificate in Criminal Intelligence, Charles Sturt University, 2009.
  • Postgraduate Diploma of Arts, The University of Western Australia, 1993.
  • Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences), Curtin University of Technology, 1991.
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