Dr Marina Miron

Dr Marina Miron is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the War Studies Department and an honorary researcher at the Centre for Military Ethics and the Department of Defence Studies. She completed a BA in Politics and American Studies (Joint Honours) and an MA in War and Contemporary Conflict, both at the University of Nottingham. Dr Miron was then awarded a PhD scholarship at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australia. In February 2019, she successfully completed her PhD studies in the area of military strategy (with a focus on counter-insurgency campaigns in Peru, Turkey, and Sri Lanka).

Since 2012, she has been working as a volunteer assistant editor at the Military Strategy Magazine (formerly Infinity Journal). Dr Miron has also taught short courses related to strategic studies, intelligence, and counterinsurgency/counterterrorism at various establishments, most notably at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany and the Colombian War College in Bogota. She also gives annual counterterrorism and crisis management lectures at the NATO Centre for Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT) in Ankara, Turkey.

Presently, Dr Miron is working on Russia’s and China’s approaches to information war and how the West can develop effective countermeasures as a part of a British Academy-funded project together with Prof. David V. Gioe. This includes research into both the theory of information war and its practical applications, especially in space, cyberspace, and the electromagnetic spectrum. Further, in her current role at the Centre for Military Ethics, she is working on topics related to military and military medical ethics, focusing on delivering military ethical education to the Colombian Armed Forces that is country-specific. She is also an honorary researcher in military science at the Colombian War College (Escuela Superior de Guerra “General Rafael Reyes Prieto”).

In addition to her research, Dr Miron has been giving interviews about the war in Ukraine, appearing on the BBC, Deutsche Welle, LBC, Sky News, ABC, CBC, Channel 4, and Channel 5.

Dr Miron is fluent in Spanish, German, and Russian, nearly fluent in Ukrainian, and reads Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish. She is also proficient in teaching Quantitative Methods, cyber issues, and artificial intelligence (AI), and is comfortable with coding using TurboPascal and Fortran, and using IMB SPSS (with Python) and NVIVO. 

Projects

Her past projects include a UK-MoD-funded project related to integrating human augmentation in a defence environment, conducted at the Defence Studies Department under the guidance of Prof. David Whetham. Further, she conducted a study of UK homeland resilience in light of Covid-19 (with Dr Rod Thornton, DSD) funded by a British Academy Covid-19 Small Grant. She is also conducting her post-doctoral research on using drones by the private sector and their impact on emergency response by civil authorities. In addition, Marina has participated in a project on military medical ethics education and its methods of delivery (with Professor David Whetham, DSD, Professor Martin Bricknell, and Dr Peter Mahoney, both King’s College London Department of War Studies).

Latest Publications

• & Whetham, D., Auzanneau, M., & Hill, A. (2023), ‘Public Drone Perception’, Technology in Society, vol. 27, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102246.
• & Fernandez-Osorio, A.E., & Villalba-Garcia, L. F. (2023), ‘Conflict Resolution Through Force: The Case of Peru, 1980-1993’, Ibero-Americana, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 26-37.
• & Thornton, R. (2023), ‘Learning the Lessons of Covid-19: Homeland Resilience in the United Kingdom – Is It Now Time for Both a Dedicated Civil Defense Organization and a Paramilitary Force?’, Defence Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 105-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2022.2110481
• & Thornton, R. (2022), ‘The Russian Military Utilisation of Artificial Intelligence to Enhance its Strategic Offensive Cyber Operations: The Current State of Play,’ in The Russian Concept of War, Management and Use of Military Power: Conceptual Change, Pentti Forsström (ed.) National Defense University, Department of Warfare Series 2: Research Reports No. 19, August 2022. Available here.
• & Thornton, R. (2022), ‘Winning future wars: Russian offensive cyber and its vital importance in Moscow’s Strategic Thinking’, The Cyber Defense Review Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, 8, pp. 117-135. Available here.