The Space Security Research Group is a multidisciplinary research group designed to promote research in a wide variety of aspects of security that pertain to or derive from space.
As a global commons, space presents a number of unique security issues, covering military and civilian aspects, with both national and international relevance. The Space Security Research Group cuts across a variety of disciplines, such as international relations, strategic studies, geography and environmental studies.
The Research Group provides an environment to enable scholarly enquiry into the field of all aspects of space security. It helps stimulate debate and advance dialogue on space-related issues between academics and relevant government bodies, thus strengthening the intellectual foundations for assessing the future of space security.
Researchers are involved in a range of projects that relate to space security, such as, the formulation of space policy, weaponisation of space, arms control, identification of proliferation activity and disaster monitoring.
People
Visiting Research Fellow
Senior Lecturer in the School of Security Studies
PhD Student
PhD Candidate
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Laughton-Corbett Research Fellow
Projects
New space race risks conflict between China and the West
Miscommunication and miscalculations between the US and China in the ‘Space Race’ could have grave consequences for the world, a new policy paper from the Lau China Institute at King's College London warns.
Space gets the recognition it deserves in the Integrated Review
In this blog, Dr Mark Hillborne discusses how space was recognised alongside land, air, maritime and cyber as a key domain of operations in the UK government's Integrated Review.
Towards a UK space surveillance policy
This report analyses the current state of space policy in the UK and engages with key space stakeholders and experts from across all sectors. It includes unbiased, achievable recommendations on a space surveillance policy position for the UK.
People
Visiting Research Fellow
Senior Lecturer in the School of Security Studies
PhD Student
PhD Candidate
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Laughton-Corbett Research Fellow
Projects
New space race risks conflict between China and the West
Miscommunication and miscalculations between the US and China in the ‘Space Race’ could have grave consequences for the world, a new policy paper from the Lau China Institute at King's College London warns.
Space gets the recognition it deserves in the Integrated Review
In this blog, Dr Mark Hillborne discusses how space was recognised alongside land, air, maritime and cyber as a key domain of operations in the UK government's Integrated Review.
Towards a UK space surveillance policy
This report analyses the current state of space policy in the UK and engages with key space stakeholders and experts from across all sectors. It includes unbiased, achievable recommendations on a space surveillance policy position for the UK.