Dr Andrew Whiting

Senior Lecturer in Security Studies and Criminology

School of Social Sciences

Email:: andrew.whiting@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: +44 (0)121 300 4448

Andrew’s research currently spans two main areas. The first concerns the constitutive effects of various different security discourses and their impact upon wider collective understandings and security practices. This work has included investigating constructions of terrorism and cyber‑security within political, media and expert discourses.

Andrew’s research has also focused on the enactment of the Prevent Duty within UK Higher Education. His work in this area is currently being funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust under the project title "Desecuritising Higher Education".

Andrew’s teaching explores critical questions about the study of security and he currently teaches a number of modules within the School of Social Sciences covering topics such as contemporary conflict, terrorism and international relations theory.

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Publications

Books

Whiting, A. (2020) Constructing cybersecurity: Power, expertise and the internet security industry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526123329

Awan, I., Spiller, K. and Whiting, A. (2019) Terrorism in the classroom: Security, surveillance and a public duty to act. London: Palgrave Pivot, https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030017095

Articles

Whiting, A., Campbell B., Spiller, K. and Awan, I. (2020) ‘The Prevent Duty in UK higher education: Insights from freedom of information requests’, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, available via Online First, doi.org/10.1177/1369148120968520.

Awan, I., Spiller, K. and Whiting, A. (2018) ‘“What does terrorism look like?”: Fighting extremism and its chilling effect on UK Universities’, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 11(1), pp. 130-150, doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2017.1396954.

Jarvis, L., Macdonald, S and Whiting, A. (2017) ‘Unpacking cyberterrorism discourse: Specificity, status and scale in news media constructions of threat’, The European Journal of International Security, 2(1), pp. 64-87, https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2016.14.

Jarvis, L., Macdonald, S and Whiting, A. (2016) ‘Analogy and authority in cyberterrorism discourse: An analysis of global news media coverage’, Global Society, 30(4), pp. 605-623, doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2016.1158699.

Jarvis, L., Macdonald, S. and Whiting, A. (2015) 'Constructing cyberterrorism as a security threat: A study of international news media coverage', Perspectives on Terrorism, 9(1), pp. 60-75,

Highlighted book chapters

Jarvis, L., MacDonald, S., Whiting, A. (2020) ‘Cyberterrorism’, in C. Dietza and C. Verhoeven (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858569.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199858569-e-38

Spiller, K. and Whiting, A. (2019) ‘UK experience of freedom of information as a method of enquiry’, in K. Walby and A. Luscombe (eds.) Freedom of information and social science research design. Abingdon: Routledge.