Celia has been a PhD candidate at King’s in the Department of War Studies since 2019. She completed her MA in Intelligence and Security at the University of Leicester. She previously worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Cabinet Office.

Her publications include a chapter in the first French language intelligence studies compendium. She has also published in the leading journal in the field, Intelligence and National Security.

Celia is an occasional lecturer at King’s and has extensive experience as a trainer for the UK government. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) blog, Insights.

 

Research Interests

• Analysis of leadership and management of the UK's intelligence community
• Interdisciplinary approach to applying frameworks from organisational studies to intelligence studies

Celia’s research examines the central leadership and management of the UK's intelligence community, including making suggestions for reform.

 

Publications

The UK National Security Council and misuses of intelligence by policy makers: reducing the risk?, Intelligence and National Security (Vol. 35 No. 7, 2020), pp. 990-1006

“La communaute britannique du renseignement”, Les mondes du renseignement: Approches, acteurs, enjeux (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2024), pp. 155-167

National Security Council: why it would be unwise for Johnson to reduce its role, LSE British Politics and Policy blog, 2020

 

Pure Profile

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/celia-parker-vincent

 

Research Centres & Groups

King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI)