This program provides participants with an understanding of the key principles of futures thinking.

This program explores the distinct challenges and opportunities women face while leading, or aspiring to lead, in critical sectors.

In this program, participants will get a basic understanding of both, intelligence and policy, and will delve into the role that intelligence plays to support policymaking.

This program introduces participants to the issues, challenges, and opportunities that shape Australia’s national security landscape.

This course has been postponed to Q1/Q2 2027. Please email epd.nsc@anu.edu.au to stay up to date once dates are confirmed.

This program explores structured methods for helping policy developers and analysts move from identifying problems to delivering recommendations.

This program will provide a strategic overview of information manipulation, global actors’ strategies and tactics and the implications for Australia's national security. 

This program explores Southeast Asia as a nexus of strategic rivalry in the Indo-Pacific.

AUKUS is reshaping Australia's workforce, industrial base, regulation and infrastructure, and represents the largest deterrence investment in Australia's history. 

This program critically analyses the implications of military, commercial and security activities in space and the challenges to global space governance.

Australia’s national security agencies operate under a complex set of laws. It is essential that those who work in the sector can navigate through the complexity.

This program exposes participants to wide-ranging perspectives on Transnational serious and organised crime (TSOC) and its increasingly pervasive impact across the national security environment.

As the world becomes more interconnected through people, businesses, and infrastructure, it is essential for Australia to safeguard its assets in cyberspace from a variety of threat actors.

Workshop with Prof Stephan Fruehling, LtCol James Groves, staff from the Army’s Research Centre and your fellow ANU researchers, for a light lunch and a brainstorming workshop focusing on the resea