MA in Law Enforcement, Security & Intelligence Studies

Postgraduate Diploma in Law Enforcement, Security and Intelligence (9 months, starting in September)

Postgraduate Certificate in Law Enforcement, Security and Intelligence (6 months, starting in September)

There is a national and international need for graduates to acquire the skills to analyse security and intelligence matters. Emphasis is placed on relating academic and historical analyses to contemporary problems and policy questions especially in the UK but also to western states in general. This course uniquely uses a degree of “practice” expertise within those delivering the programme.This MA is aimed at both those seeking professional skills and those requiring a more general grounding in this subject. Graduates will be able to demonstrate deep knowledge and understanding of security and intelligence issues. For the Law Enforcement intelligence community in particular, this programme offers one component of “professionalisation” within the growing and increasingly significant career pathway of intelligence within the overall arena of policing in the contemporary UK.The five modules and dissertation on an agreed topic fit together to deliver a strong contemporary security and intelligence focus for students by:

• providing a robust theoretical model, or argued thesis in which a student’s research, reading and writing may be placed;
• outlining and examining the key priority geopolitical threats facing the UK;
• exploring the context in which security and intelligence agencies and the law enforcement intelligence sector are required to operate.

Drawing on the extensive practitioner experience of some of the fellows of the University of Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS), it examines carefully and in detail the security and intelligence tradecraft and machinery which interface with these threats, paying due attention to a number of plans for reform both in the UK and beyond.Modules available on this course

MA (January, April & September entry – One Year)

• Law Enforcement Intelligence Practice and Policy
• Intelligence and International Security since 1939
• Intelligence Tradecraft and Machinery
• Security Threats and Challenges in the Law Enforcement Environment
• Case Studies in Intelligence Success and Failure
• Analytical Simulation Exercise
• Dissertation

Postgraduate Diploma (September entry – Nine Months)

• Law Enforcement Intelligence Practice and Policy
• Intelligence and International Security since 1939
• Intelligence Tradecraft and Machinery
• Security Threats and Challenges in the Law Enforcement Environment
• Analytical Simulation Exercise

Postgraduate Certificate (September entry – Six Months)

• Law Enforcement Intelligence Practice and Policy
• Security Threats and Challenges in the Law Enforcement Environment

Full course information in the University Handbook

Full course information in the University HandbookAbout BUCSISBUCSIS was established in 2008 as a world-class centre for research into the key Security and Intelligence issues facing the UK and the world in the 21st century. The Centre is headed by a leading academic in the field, Professor Anthony Glees, and is supported by a research and teaching team led by Dr Julian Richards, a Security Studies specialist with a long experience of working in the UK government on defence and security policy issues. More information about BUCSIS.See also:

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