Dr Celia Parker-Vincent is Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She completed her PhD in the department, focusing on leadership and management of the UK’s intelligence community. Her interests include intelligence analysis & assessment and the intelligence-policymaker dynamic. She is a core member of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) and is Editor-in-Chief of KCSI’s blog, Insights.

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 and has extensive experience as a lecturer/trainer for the UK government. 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 and in the RUSI Journal.

Research 

• 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 central leadership and management of the UK’s intelligence community, including the consideration of reforms.

Teaching

• 7SSWN336 Influence: Covert action, active measures, and deception (MA)
• 7SSWN135 Past and Present of British Intelligence (MA)

Publications

• Moving towards a secret intelligence joint capability?, RUSI Journal (Vol. 169 No 5, 2024), pp. 22-27
• 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

For more information on publications, please see Celia Parker-Vincent's PURE Profile.