Henrietta is a PhD candidate at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies. Her PhD research focusses on “Open Source Research and Weapons of Mass Destruction Treaty Verification in the Age of Google: Reassessing Verification Possibilities and Constraints for the Biological Weapons Convention”. Her PhD supervisor is Dr Filippa Lentzos.

Henrietta has a background as a portfolio worker, spanning freelance research, writing and teaching. Her research focusses on arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation, with a particular focus on the global regulation of weapons of mass destruction. She writes for and makes presentations to specialist and popular audiences, and has taught politics and international relations modules to undergraduates and postgraduates at UK universities. She has served on the Board of Governors for several non-governmental research groups in the UK.

 

Research

Henrietta's current work is focused on:

• Strengthening global prohibitions against bioweapons
• Weapons of mass destruction arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation
• International treaty verification
• The role of open source investigations in strengthening human security, enhancing global justice and accountability, and improving global governance

 

Publications

Books and journals

• Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google (lead editor; co-editors Olamide Samuel and Dan Plesch), World Scientific Press, 2024
• ZeFKo Special Issue, Gender and Disarmament: Feminist Approaches to Arms, Arms Control, Disarmament and their Role in Peace and Conflict, (with Nancy Ehrenberg-Peters, Jannis Kappelmann, and Daniel Plesch, with a foreword by Carol Cohn), 2024
• Science and Peace: A Celebration and Remembrance of the Life and Work of Julian Perry Robinson (with Mary Kaldor, Josh Kaldor-Robinson, and Peter Pringle), Springer Nature, forthcoming (due 2025)

Book chapters

• ‘The Heterogeneity of UK Military Views on Nuclear Weapons’, Andrew Futter (ed), The United Kingdom and The Future of Nuclear Weapons: The Trident Debate Renewed, Rowman & Littlefield, June 2016
• ‘The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’, in Nigel Young (ed), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace, OUP USA: New York, UK, March 2010

Research articles

• 'Introduction: UNSCOM and the future of WMD verification’ (with Filippa Lentzos), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol 77 No 4, 21 July 2021
• ‘UNSCOM’s work to uncover Iraq’s illicit biological weapons program: A primer’ (with Stephen Black and Filippa Lentzos), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol 77 No 4, 21 July 2021
• ‘Disarmament and Non-proliferation Verification: What We’ve Got, What’s Needed, and Can Open Source Research Help?’, (with Dan Plesch and Olamide Samuel), RUSI PONI Nuclear Reactions, Autumn 2020
• ‘Arms Control 2.0? With Open Source Tools, Desktop Sleuths Can Go Where Governments won’t’, (with Olamide Samuel and Dan Plesch), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 27 July 2020
• ‘Renewing Trident: Can the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment Cope?’, Disarmament Diplomacy, No 88, Spring 2008, pp. 32-39

Policy papers and reports

• British Military Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament, Nuclear Information Service, June 2015
• Defence Select Committee Inquiry, Toward the Next Defence and Security Review: Part Two: Evidence from the Nuclear Education Trust (NET), 2014
• Verifying the Biological Weapons Convention: The Competing Needs of Politics, Science and Industry, VERTIC: London, 2000
• Verifying Nuclear Disarmament, A Role for Aldermaston (with Tom Milne), British Pugwash Group: London, May 1999

Media articles

• ‘Apocalypse soon’, (review of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen and Countdown: The blinding future of nuclear weapons by Sarah Scoles), Times Literary Supplement, 3 May 2024
• ‘The Disarming of Iraq: What Went Wrong and What Went Right’, New Lines, March 2023
• ‘Dismantling the bomb’, (review of Mariana Budjeryn’s Inheriting the Bomb, Times Literary Supplement, 12 May 2023
• ‘Hiders vs hedgers: How to identify – and prevent – nuclear proliferation’, (review of Vipin Narang’s Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation), Times Literary Supplement, 29 April 2022
• ‘Hunting for the truth behind important world events with We Are Bellingcat’, (review of Eliot Higgins’ We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People), The New Arab, 24 March 2021