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Helping to revive wargaming in the Royal Navy – an update: Games in a COVID world

22/04/2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Lieutenant Commander Ed Oates, recent PhD graduate at Cranfield Defence and Security and helicopter simulator instructor at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall, previously shared his experiences in using knowledge learnt at Cranfield to drive a wargaming ...

Submarine hunter by day, PhD student by night – an update: What I wish I’d known at the start…

21/04/2021|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Lieutenant Commander Ed Oates wrote about his experiences while completing a PhD part-time at Cranfield Defence and Security in 2017. After recently successfully defending his thesis, Crowdsourcing with serious games for defence procurement, Dr Oates ...

Helping to revive wargaming in the Royal Navy

17/12/2019|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Wargaming played a vital role during World War Two in helping Royal Navy ship and submarine commanders to outthink their opponents in the Battle for the Atlantic and keep convoy supply routes to the UK ...

Submarine hunter by day, PhD student by night

12/10/2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Completing a PhD part-time at Cranfield Defence and Security is allowing me to earn an income while studying and means that I’ve not lost sight of the ‘real world’, which has helped to ground my ...

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