MSc Security Management student, Richard Waight, was runner up for the Association of Security Consultants Imbert Prize.

Richard 2Richard said:

“The dissertation explores some key academic theoretical assumptions about the human complexities of making effective decisions in pressured environments along with feedback from experienced practitioners. In doing so it exposes components that may help produce effective crisis decision makers.  It finds important academic psychological and cognitive theory sparingly understood and poorly integrated with crisis management; consequently, practitioners tend to think of crisis decision effectiveness in terms of process, procedures, and action rather than the behaviours and characteristics which enable them. However, preferred individual traits, and more discrete trait behaviours, are found alongside other core attributes. Some are learned, others are probably innate, however aspects of both may well be overlooked in training and in selection processes.”