Paula Macphee
Teaching Fellow
Security Sector Management
Cranfield University
United Kingdom
Biography
Following five years working within the financial sector, Paula joined Cranfield University’s Security Sector Management (SSM) Programme as the Programme Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Bogota, Colombia. Paula’s work with Cranfield involved a number of regional initiatives related to security sector management, including work in Guatemala, Guyana, Bolivia and Colombia. Between 2007 and 2010, Paula worked for the UK Border Agency, based out of the British Embassy in Bogota and the British Consulate in Chicago. In 2010, she returned to the UK and recommenced work with Cranfield University. Paula holds a postgraduate degree in International Relations and a BA (Hons) in Languages and International Trade. She is currently a Doctoral candidate (EdD, Learning, Leadership and Policy) at Bristol University where she is researching the role of higher education in the professionalisation of Armed Forces in developing states.
Research Interest
Paula's research focuses on Security sector management.
Publications
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MacPhee PJ, Fitz-Gerald & AM (2017) Promoting Peace and Stability through Exported Postgraduate Education in Ethiopia. In: Higher Education in Africa: Challenges for development, Mobility and Cooperation. Goujon, A, Haller M, Muller Kmet, B (ed.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, p. 236-257.
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Macphee PL & Fitz-Gerald AM (2014) Multiplying a Force for Good: Evaluating the impact of security sector management postgraduate education in Ethiopia, Journal of Peace Education, 11 (1) 208-224.
