Project Selborne welcomes Dr Anna Brinkman as new Director of Academic Studies at BRNC Dartmouth
The start of the new year brings a significant change in leadership for the University of Lincoln’s Maritime Studies Centre at BRNC Dartmouth with the arrival of new Director of Academic Studies, Dr Anna Brinkman.
Dr Brinkman joins Project Selborne from the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London (Shrivenham, Wiltshire), where she taught on the Advanced Command and Staff Course (ACSC), Intermediate Command and Staff Course (Land), and was Co-Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies. She is a historian of maritime strategic thinking and international maritime law and her first book Balancing Strategy examines the relationship between seapower, law, and strategic thinking during the Seven Years’ War. Her position brings with it the University position of Associate Professor in the History of Strategy and International Law.
Dr Brinkman said: “I am delighted to be joining the Maritime Studies Centre and the University of Lincoln at such an interesting time in the Selborne Project. The modernisation of our academic delivery at BRNC provides the opportunity to develop new collaborative teaching and research driven by the expertise of our academic and project colleagues. I look forward to delving into this new leadership role at what is truly a unique and inter-disciplinary department.
Teaching and working in Professional Military Education has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of my academic career and I cannot think of a better place to be a maritime strategy historian than with the Maritime Studies Centre at BRNC working with the Royal Navy.”
University of Lincoln Selborne Programme Director, Heber Ackland, said:
“I am really excited to announce the full-time arrival of Dr Anna Brinkman as the University’s new Director of Academic Studies at BRNC Dartmouth. Anna is a maritime expert, with experience transforming professional military education, and is just the right person to lead the Maritime Studies Centre through modernisation and the expansion of its external engagement.”
Story submitted by Lucy Prescott
lprescott@lincoln.ac.uk