Dr Kris Stoddart

• Establishing the facts of tragedy: Open-source intelligence and Humanitarian Intervention (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Yvonne Mcdermott Rees

• Regulation of the Voluntary Sector: A Comparative Analysis – India and the United Kingdom. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Christala Sophocleous

  Other supervisor: Dr Gerard Clarke

• Crypto-Asset Related Crimes: Exploiting Opportunities and Exercising Control in Fraud, Ransomware Attacks, and Money Laundering (awarded 2025)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Victoria Silverwood

• ASCM58 Cyber Security

  Across the developed and developing worlds, cyber security is a growing concern as interconnectivity grows and technologies develop. This is embodied by the growth of the Internet and platforms which rely on the Internet. This is an enabler for governments, businesses, financial transactions, and one-to-one and one-to-many communications. The resulting explosion in communications and connectivity is also enabling dis/mis and mal information to be seeded and grow to virality. Whether and how social media platforms and the Internet should be regulated and policed is a vexing question for national governments and societies. In tandem is the growth in cyber crime. This embraces everything from scams which target individuals to large scale corporate theft to the sharing of illegal materials. Large scale corporate theft can also involve national intelligence agencies which adds a layer of complexity to any national or international resolution. Of still greater concern is the capacity of states to engage in cyber espionage, hybrid warfare and cyber warfare.

• PO-118 War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

  In this module you will examine the history of the international system from the end of the Second World War to the present day. It will provide an examination of the origins of the Cold War, how the two superpowers managed their relationship during the Cold War and an analysis of some of the key features of the post-Cold War world. We begin by assessing the rise of the USA and USSR and the emergence of deterrence. The failure of the US policy of containment in Vietnam and the emergence of tripolarity and detente in the 1970s then follows. By the beginning of the 1980s the superpowers relations had worsened and it was the time of the Second Cold War. Yet within ten years the Cold War that had dominated international relations since 1945 would be over. Why did it end, and who won will be questions for you to answer. The module will then examine the challenges facing the international system in the aftermath of the Cold War. Challenges ranging from failed states and military intervention to the rise of China and the re-emergence of Russia, and we conclude by asking, in the post 9/11 era, are we facing a clash of civilisations?

• PO-118A War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

  In this module you will examine the history of the international system from the end of the Second World War to the present day. It will provide an examination of the origins of the Cold War, how the two superpowers managed their relationship during the Cold War and an analysis of some of the key features of the post-Cold War world. We begin by assessing the rise of the USA and USSR and the emergence of deterrence. The failure of the US policy of containment in Vietnam and the emergence of tripolarity and detente in the 1970s then follows. By the beginning of the 1980s the superpowers relations had worsened and it was the time of the Second Cold War. Yet within ten years the Cold War that had dominated international relations since 1945 would be over. Why did it end, and who won will be questions for you to answer. The module will then examine the challenges facing the international system in the aftermath of the Cold War. Challenges ranging from failed states and military intervention to the rise of China and the re-emergence of Russia, and we conclude by asking, in the post 9/11 era, are we facing a clash of civilisations?

• PO-M64 Violence, Conflict and Development

  Violence and conflict have been enduring and widespread obstacles to the promotion of sustainable development throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, and the 21st century looks set to continue this pattern. This module examines the roots and causes of conflict and violence in developing nations and explores how and why such conflict emerge even between hitherto seemingly peacefully co-existing communities. The module asks what impact protracted and violent conflict can have upon development prospects and democratisation processes, and examines national and international responses to violence and conflict mediation processes and systems. The module also explores soome of the arguments surrounding the use of aid in conflict situations, and examines the extent to which development aid and emergency relief can assist in perpetuating a state of conflict.

• PO-M98 Cyber Warfare and Cyber Espionage: War and Spycraft in the Modern World

  Without cyber espionage there could be no cyber warfare. Cyber warfare to its fullest extent could target critical infrastructure and societies but cyber espionage is the enabler for cyber warfare and much else besides. This includes political influence campaigns and election interference, and information warfare ¿ part of what many believe are ongoing and active campaigns of hybrid warfare. Cyber espionage and hybrid warfare are aided by traditional espionage and intelligence gathering. This is the world of spycraft, corporate espionage, proxy and front organisations, hackers, criminals and organised crime gangs. This virtual battlefield is defined as the fifth domain of warfare by NATO and can directly affect the other domains of land, sea, air, and space.

• EU Resilience Against Hybrid Warfare 2021

  Funded by the EU’s Jean Monnet fund/Erasmus+, grant number 620427-EPP-1-2020-1-UK-EPPJMO-MODULE, €30,000

• SCADA Systems and Cyber Security Lifecycles 2014 - 2017

  Principal Investigator, with Kevin Jones, Hugh Soulsby, Andrew Blyth., Peter Eden, Peter Burnap, and Yulia Cherdantseva, £1.2million

‘Edward Snowden and You: Negotiating the Post 9/11 Surveillance State’. Hancock Symposium Westminster College, Missouri (Keynote lecture broadcast on the U.S. television channel C-Span) (2015) https://www.c-span.org/video/?328003-3/kristan-stoddart-government-surveillance-versus-privacy.

‘Winter Exercise’, BBC Radio 4 (2013) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lkmpy.

Information and advice given to BBC Horizon documentary ‘Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe’, broadcast 14 September 2011.

‘The Bomb, the Chancellor and Britain's Nuclear Secrets’, BBC Radio 4 (2011) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zdj01.

‘Post Nuclear Broadcasting’, BBC Radio 4 (2008) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20080128.shtml, and interview given to The Independent, ‘BBC’s dilemma over who would announce a nuclear attack’, 3 October 2008.

Kristan Stoddart was a board member of the Independent Digital Ethics in Policing Panel (IDEPP) - http://idepp.org/ - composed of senior figures from UK policing, UK intelligence agencies, the law, and civil society. IDEPP was an important hub for ethical issues arising from policing in the information age.

Kristan has given many invited talks over many years. In 2018 he was a keynote speaker at the Infrastructure Investors Forum Europe at Price Waterhouse Coopers in the City of London in January 2018 and at the Nordic Baltic Security Summit in March 2018. In November 2017 he was invited to the Cabinet Office to speak at the seminar ‘European security challenges in 2030’ and in February 2018 he submitted written evidence to the House of Lords International Relations Committee inquiry on ‘Foreign policy in changed world conditions’. In May-June 2018 he was a moderator and speaker at NATO’s premier cyber security conference, CyCon X in Tallinn.