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Dalene Duvenage, D.SyRM

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

OFFICE: CAE 310A
PHONE: 814-824-3336

Education

  • D.SyRM, Security Risk Management, Portsmouth University (UK)
  • M.Phil., Information and Knowledge Management, Stellenbosch University (ZA)
  • BAdmin Hons, International Relations, Pretoria University (ZA) 

Dr. Duvenage has three decades of experience in the intelligence and security risk environment in South Africa before joining Mercyhurst to help the intelligence professionals of tomorrow discover their passion and professional identity. She spent 20 years in the national security sector before moving to the private sector. Her international experience and network expose students to the multitude of career possibilities in the intelligence field.  

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About Dr. Duvenage
    • Intelligence analysis techniques in complex environments
    • Crime intelligence
    • Managing intelligence
    • RIAP 178: Intelligence Methods & Analysis
    • RIAP 276: Law Enforcement Intelligence
    • RIAP 320: Advanced Law Enforcement Intelligence
    • INT 510: Intelligence Theories and Applications
    • INT 615: Contemporary Intelligence Leadership 
    • Professional identity (PI) of intelligence analysts: The role of universities in constructing PI
    • Private sector intelligence and risk management 
    • Topics in law enforcement, crime intelligence and national security
    • Private sector intelligence and risk management
    • Professionalism in intelligence careers 
    • International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE)
    • Association or International Risk Intelligence Professionals (AIRIP)
    • International Studies Association (ISA)
    • Security Institute (UK)
    • Women in Intelligence (WIN) 
    • The professionalization of intelligence practitioners in African chapter in forthcoming book “Contemporary Intelligence and Tradecraft in Africa” by Routledge ed T Ghatiwa. (2024)
    • Bringing intelligence education’s hidden curriculum out of the shadows: an intentional professional identity formation program for the Intelligence Professionals of tomorrow. International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) conference, Charleston, SC, October 2022
    • The professional identity of security risk intelligence analysts in the private sector: an international perspective. (2021). DSyRM Thesis, University of Portsmouth, UK.
    • The professional Identity of Security Risk Intelligence Analysts in the private sector. (2020). Australian Institute for Professional Intelligence Officers Annual conference. Online.
    • Professional identity of intelligence analysts: the missing dimension in the professionalization debate. (2019). International Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.
    • The professional development needs of security risk and intelligence analysts in sub-Sahara Africa. (2019). International Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.
    • A strategic foresight model for Central Bank Security Risk Analysis. (2015). International Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, US
    • Moderator: "Academia & National Security Agencies in Africa: Independence, Integrity and Self-censorship, 1 October 2021.
    • Podcast for the African Intel Affairs Podcast on “Intelligence analysis across domains – Government and the private sector in Africa”: April 2021  
    • Podcast for the African Intel Affairs Podcast on “Intelligence Tradecraft in Africa”: February 2021.
    • Panel member “Defining and Examining Private Sector Security/Risk Intelligence” 4th Annual Association for International Risk Intelligence Professionals (AIRIP) Global Intelligence Forum webinar; September 2021 
    • Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Buckingham University Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS)
    • Commendation by Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIU) for contribution to Law Enforcement education (2011)