King's College London - Dr Matthew Moran

Researchers

Dr Matthew Moran

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Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS)
Department of War Studies
King's College London
StrandBridge House
London WC2R 2LS
Email: matthew.moran@kcl.ac.uk

Research Interests

Nuclear non-proliferation with particular reference to France and Iran
French politics and society
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Biography

Matthew Moran is a Research Associate at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London (KCL). He is currently working on a MacArthur-funded postdoctoral project that explores the relationship between nuclear, nationalism and identity and how these issues impact on policy-making.

Before taking up his current fellowship, Matthew was based at the International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA) where he worked on issues relating to nuclear non-proliferation in South-East Asia and North Africa. In this position, he also gained expertise in open source intelligence methodology and eXstensible Markup Language (XML).

Matthew studied for a BA (Hons) and MA at the National University of Ireland, Galway before being awarded a doctorate at University College London. His doctoral project explored the nature and causes of the riots that occurred in French suburbs in 2005 and 2007. The project was based on qualitative field-work carried out in Paris and examined issues relating to identity as well as the links between national projections of unity and localized realities of disunity. Matthew has previously been employed as a Teaching Fellow at University College London and as a Lecturer at the University of Southampton.

Matthew was recently awarded an Innovation Fellowship by King's Business . The fellowship is aimed at promoting innovation through research.

Teaching

Open Source Intelligence: Theory, Collection, Analysis and Management
Proliferation and International Security
Contemporary French Politics

Publications

Christopher Hobbs and Matthew Moran, ‘Further proliferation in the Middle East is not inevitable’, Euro-Atlantic Quarterly, April 2012
Matthew Moran and Matthew Cottee, ‘Bound by History? Exploring the Challenges to French Nuclear Disarmament, Defence and Security Analysis (2011) Vol.27, No.4.
Matthew Moran, The Republic and the Riots: Exploring Urban Violence in French Suburbs (Peter Lang, 2012).
- The Republic and the Riots was reviewed in Modern and Contemporary France (Vol.20, Issue 2) by Professor David Waddington from Sheffield Hallam University. The review is available here

Matthew Moran and Carl Miller, 'The debate on the "nuclear renaissance" needs a bit more enlightenment', Prospect, 21 March 2011.
Matthew Moran,‘Opposing Exclusion: The Political Significance of the Riots in French Suburbs (2005-2007)', Modern and Contemporary France (2011) Vol.19, No.3.
Matthew Moran and Matthew Cottee, 'Nuclear terrorism: should the UK be concerned?’, OpenDemocracy, 9 November 2010
Averis, K., and Matthew Moran (eds.), Le mensonge: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in French Studies (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).
Kokoreff, M., and Matthew Moran, ‘Republic of Lies? Exploring the 2005 riots in French banlieues’, in Le mensonge: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in French Studies (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: CSP, 2010).
Review - Moran, M. Collective Terms: Race, Culture and Community in a State-Planned City in France, by Beth S. Epstein in Modern and Contemporary France (2012) Vol. 20, Issue 1.
Review - Moran, M. Sociologie des émeutes, by Michel Kokoreff in Modern and Contemporary France (2009) Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp.103-104.
Review - Moran, M. L’Etat et les quartiers. Genèse d’une catégorie de l’action publique, by Sylvie Tissot in Modern and Contemporary France (2009) Vol. 16, Issue 3, pp. 373-374.