Adjunct Professor, Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham
Candyce is currently a member of the Intelligence Analysis and Tactical Criminal Analysis Program Advisory Committee for the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Canada. She is the president of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies in Vancouver, BC. and the Vice Chair of the Canadian Intelligence Network. Candyce Kelshall has extensive experience as a diplomat, instructor, lecturer, entrepreneur, police advisor, reservist and academic. Candyce has trained military and law enforcement units in over 17 different countries, her teaching record demonstrates a passion for student success, and she captained multiple successful enterprises.
TEACHING
Candyce Kelshall recently completed a Simon Fraser University’s Big Data Key initiative research grant on “Predicting the Escalation to Violence using Social Media Postings of an Active Hate Group” with co-lead investigator with Dr. Ahmed Al Rawi and Professor Maite Taboada.
She currently teaches Information Technology Concepts for Forensics Investigations and serves as an industry subject matter expert and supervising graduate projects with the School of Computing and Academic Studies at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and Advanced Analytic techniques at Justice Institute of British Columbia. She has been teaching and writing academic programs for the last 14 years at the University of Buckingham, UK; the University of Sussex, UK; Rabdan Academy, UAE; Simon Fraser University, Canada; and the British Columbia Institute for Technology, Canada.
She has taught academic, professional, undergraduate, graduate, and vocational (police, law enforcement, military and intelligence programs in over 17 countries. Her current research interests lie in the application of Structured Analytic Models, Approaches, and Techniques, Violent Transnational Social Movements and their role in the evolving nature of contemporary conflict, the normalization of extremist sentiment, and community and online based social and soft violence in contemporary social conflict.
She has written extensively for DefenceIQ (UK) and the UK Defence Academy on the changing nature of military and defence policy priorities given the emergence of identity based, state threats; The evolution of Fifth Generation Warfare and its implications on defence and police training; doctrine; policy and strategy, are also major areas of her academic focus. She has previously spoken at the Women in Data Science Conference, Vancouver 2020 on “The Dangers of Predictive Policing and the Need for Proactive Data.”
Experience
2019–present
Chief Executive, AQ-IQ Proactive Analytics
2009–present
Fellow, Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham
2019–present
Undergraduate Lecturer, Forensic Science, British Columbia Institute of Technology
2020–present
Adjunct Professor, Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham
2020–present
Lecturer, Master of International Security, University of Buckingham
2006–present
Director: Training & Evaluation Design, DA-UK
2006–present
Director: Training & Evaluation Design, DA-IC
2018–present
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare
2017–present
President & Instructor, Assessor, and Creator of Executive Training Syllabus and Content, Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies Vancouver
2014–present
Chair, Centre for 5th Generation Warfare Studies
2019–present
Lead Investigator and Director of Training Delivery, Canadian Centre for Identity-Based Conflict
2016–2020
Adjunct Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
2018–2019
Syllabus and Academic Content Creator, Policing Program, Rabdan Academy
2011–2016
Lecturer, International Relations, University of Sussex
2007–2016
Independent Critical Incident Advisor, British Transport Police
2010–2016
Independent Advisor, Metropolitan Police Service
2011–2016
Pathway Leader and Lecturer, International Study Center, University of Sussex
2009–2016
Faculty Lecturer, Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham
2005–2015
Sea Cadet Corps, Royal Navy Reserve
2003–2009
Ship and Port Security Officer Trainer, Blue Water Defence and Security
2003–2006
Director, TASK International Ltd.
2000–2003
Consultant to Government of Trinidad and Tobago & Diplomatic and Commercial Attaché to Court of St. James, High Commission for Trinidad and Tobago to UK
1997–2000
Diplomat - Head of Trade and Investment for Europe, High Commission for Trinidad and Tobago to UK
1996–1997
Lecturer, Trade & Development and Business Internationalism, London South Bank University Business School
Education
1995
London Southbank University, M.Sc. International Business
1990
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, B.Sc Hons. Government and Political Science
Publications
2020
Re/Generation: Perspectives on COVID-19 from the African Continent,
2020
Decoded: Understanding the Post-COVID-19 Security Landscape using Structured Models, Approaches, and Techniques,
2019
A Constructivist Enquiry into the Problem of Piracy, Defense Security Brief
2019
A Program to Educate on the Prevention and Reduction of Extremist Discourse Volume 1: Youth Educator Manual,
2019
Structured Analytical Techniques for Law Enforcement: Tradecraft Coursework and Table Top Exercises,
2019
Violent Transnational Social Movements and their Impact on Contemporary Social Conflict, Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare
2018
Accidental Power: How Non-State Actors Hijacked Legitimacy and Re-Shaped the International System,
2018
Accountability and the Juxtaposition of Civil Society and Policing in a Period of Changing Norms: Using Independent Police Advisors, Journal of Intelligence Conflict and Warfare.
2018
Introduction to Structured Analytical Techniques for National Security Analysts: Tradecraft Coursework and Table top Exercises,
2016
The Military and the Post-Colonial State,
2013
Mutiny or Revolution,
2011
Armed Forces and Government,
2004
Radical Islam and LNG in Trinidad and Tobago, Energy Security
1993
The Spanish naval incursion on Trinidad, The Book of Trinidad
1993
History of the military in Trinidad and Tobago, The Book of Trinidad
Grants and Contracts
2019
Predicting the Escalation to Violence using Social Media Postings of an Active Hate Group
Role:
Lead Investigator
Funding Source:
Simon Fraser University
Professional Memberships
Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies
International Association for Intelligence Education
Institute of Training and Occupational Learning
Royal Canadian Navy Canadian Leaders at Sea
Oxford Intelligence Group, Nuffield College
Honours
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Chevening Scholar, National Police Commendation, National Complementary Policing Award