Imbert Award 2023

 

 

The ASC are pleased to announce the finalists in this year’s Imbert Award.


The ASC Imbert Award is awarded annually to the best master’s degree dissertation on a security-related subject. It is fiercely competed for by students from universities across the UK. The overall winner is announced at the ASC Awards Dinner held at the House of Lords in December.

Gary Thomas, ASC Chair said “The high level of the entries this year leaves me speechless. It is so exciting that there are people of such great calibre, considering such a wide range of issues, within the security industry. I thank my fellow judges, Nigel Cook, Lee Doddridge and Michael McDonagh for their diligence in the judging stages and I hope they enjoyed the experience as much as I did - it is so exciting to see such talent coming through the academic system. I thank everyone who has submitted dissertations and the support of the universities in this process that allows us to celebrate new talent. I look forward to meeting all the finalists and the representatives of the universities at the Awards Dinner in December.”
 
The finalists this year are:
 
Rosannagh Nicholson
Cranfield University – School of Defence and Security
The ‘Golden Thread’: An Exploration of the Relationship between Climate Change, Conflict and Terrorism.
 
Dennis Roe
University of Portsmouth
How ‘Risky’ are the surveyors who design security and surveillance solutions?
(A critical evaluation of the competency of UK Security Sector personnel relating to the design proposal and supply of risk aware and risk based electronic security systems).
 
Marie Zeimetz
University of St Andrews
(Don’t) Let Them Return
A Qualitative Analysis of French and British Media and Political Framings of Female Jihadists Detained in Syria since 2019
 
The Imbert Prize is awarded in memory of the ASC’s former patron, Lord Imbert of New Romney CVO QPM JP, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service and Lord Lieutenant of Greater London.

We thank Total Security Protection [TSP], Genetec and CIE-Group for sponsoring this annual event.