Dr Barney Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in Security, Leadership and Development Education at the African Leadership Centre (ALC). He is programme convenor of the MSc Global Leadership and Peacebuilding and Managing Editor of the ALC Journal of Leadership and Developing Societies. He is also a mentor on the various ALC Fellowship programmes.

Barney holds a BA degree in History and Sociology (international) from Leeds University and MA in International Relations from King's. In 2016 he was the first ever graduate of the PhD Leadership Studies with reference to Security and Development programme at ALC-King’s, where he has worked as Faculty since.

Barney has published several peer-reviewed articles in accredited journals, on topics such as Regional Security Complex Theory in Africa, Human Security in East Africa, African Agency and Security issues within China-Africa relations. He has also organised and overseen numerous academic conferences and symposiums. Barney has lived, travelled and worked across Africa, and undertaken field work research in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and South Africa.

Research

• Leadership Studies
• Middle Powers in Africa
• East African Security
• Indigenous Peacebuilding

Barney's current research interests include the role of so-called emerging and middle powers in Africa; regional security dynamics in the Horn of Africa; and indigenous transformative practices and their role in peacebuilding in the Global South.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• 7YYFN037 Leadership and Society
• 7YYFSGA3 Global Leadership, Peace and Society
• 7YYFSGA4 Practising Leadership

PhD Supervision

Barney supervises PhD students in the following areas:

• East African Security
• Leadership issues in Global South
• Indigenous Peacebuiding Practices
• Education and social transformation

Further details 

See Barney's research profile