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  • Dr Nunan completed his PhD at the University of Portsmouth, funded by the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST). His thesis developed an evidence-base for the elicitation of intelligence from Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS). He has published numerous peer reviewed academic articles on topics including the elicitation of intelligence, CHIS, rapport building, effective questioning, and interviewing methods. He has presented his work at international conferences and continues to work with numerous law enforcement agencies on research projects and policy development.

    Dr Nunan is the National Coordinator for the National Police Chief’s Council’s (NPCC) Intelligence Practice Research Consortium (IPRC), a body which seeks to encourage staff and students to undertake academic research in the area of intelligence policy and practice. In this role, he has organised conferences of up to 200 hundred law enforcement practitioners, ensuring that continuous professional development is underpinned by both academic and practitioner knowledge. Additionally, Dr Nunan is an academic advisor on the National Crime Agency’s HUMINT Academic Hub.

    Alongside his academic profile, Dr Nunan has served as a police officer for Hampshire Constabulary, the Metropolitan Police Service and Cambridgeshire Constabulary. In his time as a police officer, Dr Nunan was a part of London’s West End Proactive Team and a Detective in Domestic Abuse cases and Serious Crime.

  • Dr Jordan Nunan is the module leader for Covert Investigations (CJS2023) and The Management of Major Investigations (CJS2021). He also delivers teaching across the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA).

  • Dr Nunan’s research interests include law enforcement investigations, the psychology of intelligence elicitation, covert policing and HUMINT, investigative interviewing and the disclosure of evidence.

  • For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view Jordan Nunan’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.

    • Nunan, J., & Stanier. I. (in press). The Intelligence Mindset: A Framework for Gathering ACTIONABLE Intelligence in an Interviewing Context. In Bull, R., Milne R. Investigative Interviewing: Psychology and Practice (2nd Ed.).
    • Stanier, I., & Nunan. J. (in press). The motivation of UK Domestic Extremist Covert Human Intelligence Sources. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
    • Stanier, I., & Nunan, J. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on UK informant use and management. Policing and society, 31(5), 512-529.
    • Dalton, G., Milne, R., Hope, L., Vernham, Z., & Nunan, J. (2021). ‘He was just your typical average guy’: Examining how person descriptions are elicited by frontline police officers. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(2), 517-525.
    • Milne R., Shawyer A., Dalton G., May B., Nunan J., Bull R. (2020) Interviewing Adults: Communication at the Front Line. In: Shapiro L., Maras MH. (eds) Encyclopaedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham.
    • Nunan, J., Stanier, I., Milne, R., Shawyer, A., & Walsh, D. (2020). Source Handler perceptions of the interviewing processes employed with informants. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 15(3), 244-262.
    • Nunan, J., Stanier, I., Milne, R., Shawyer, A., & Walsh, D. (2020). Eliciting human intelligence: police source handlers’ perceptions and experiences of rapport during covert human intelligence sources (CHIS) interactions, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 1-27. doi:10.1080/13218719.2020.1734978
    • Nunan, J., Stanier, I., Milne, R., Shawyer, A., Walsh, D., & May, B. (2020). The impact of rapport on intelligence yield: Police source handler telephone interactions with covert human intelligence sources. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2020.1784807
    • Nunan, J., Stanier, I., Milne, R., Shawyer, A., & Walsh, D. (2020). Source handler telephone interactions with covert human intelligence sources: an exploration of question types and intelligence yield. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1-12. doi:10.1002/acp.3726  
    • Nunan, J. H., Palfreyman-Jones, S., Milne, B. & Wakefield, A. (2019). The timeline of information exchange: An evaluation of London Ambulance Service NHS Trust’s front-line communication and emergency response to Exercise Unified Response.
    • Nunan, J. (2019). Increasing Accurate Recall in Human Sources. Crest Security Review, 10, 38-39. 
    • Stanier, I. P., & Nunan, J. (2018). Reframing Intelligence Interviews: The Applicability of Psychological Research to HUMINT Elicitation.  In A. Griffiths, & R. Milne (Eds.), The Psychology of Criminal Investigation: From Theory to Practice (pp. 226-248). London: Routledge.