Teaching Academic Intelligence Research
Stacey Pollard
Half Day, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center, 410
This course provides an overview of how to teach academically rigorous intelligence research that fills a complex intelligence or national security gap. The course provides the basics of how the disciplines of political science and public administration can inform the conduct of valid academic intelligence research; discusses the 7 main research designs used in academic intelligence research, and lends insights as to how the research results can reach intelligence community end users and intelligence-adjacent academe to contribute to bodies of knowledge on topics critical to U.S. national security.