Joe Devanny is a Senior Lecturer in National Security Studies in the Department of War Studies. He is a 2023–25 Project Fellow of the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS) and was a 2022–23 British Academy Innovation Fellow at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO).

Before joining the Department of War Studies, Joe served as programme director for security at Ridgeway Information and was previously a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA) at the Policy Institute, King’s College London (KCL).

His postdoctoral research was conducted at the Institute for Government and the Policy Institute at King’s as part of the AHRC-funded Contemporary History of Whitehall project. Prior to his academic research roles, Joe worked briefly in academic publishing and earlier for the UK Government.

He holds a PhD in political theory from the University of Cambridge, as well as degrees in European Studies and Political Science.

Research Interests

• National Security Strategy
• Cyber Statecraft

Teaching

Current:

• National Security Studies
• Cyber Diplomacy

Past:

• Cyber Power and Cyber Strategy
• Cyber Security: Privacy, Ethics & Human Rights
• Cybersecurity: Politics, Policy and Practice
• Intelligence in Peace and War
• Political Violence, Counterterrorism and Human Rights

Publications

For a complete list of publications, check Dr Devanny's Pure Profile.