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Elizabeth Pearson
Position: Consulting Fellow
Elizabeth Pearson produces the RUSI Analysis Podcast, and is a freelance journalist with more than fifteen years experience in radio reporting, production and feature-making, much of it for the BBC. Her background is in news journalism, where she started out in local radio, before moving to the BBC's Radio Newsroom, producing bulletins for Radios Two, Three, Four and Five Live, and then specialising in international news as a Five Live producer.
She is a regular contributor of short features to BBC Radio Four programmes Woman's Hour and Making History, and an occasional producer at Saturday Live.
Elizabeth has produced five half hour-documentaries for the BBC, including a report on the harassment of schoolgirls in Tanzania for the BBC World Service, and a programme on the problem of abuse in teenage relationships in the UK, (Teenage Kicks for BBC Radio Four).
With bases in both London and Bristol, Elizabeth also works in media training and web audio, and is currently studying a part-time MA in International Conflict Studies at King's College London.
RUSI articles and analysis by this author
Recovering Stolen Assets
8 May 2012This week, the RUSI Analysis Podcast examines corruption, and how money lost to it can be reclaimed. The issue's the subject of a paper called Plundering the Treasure Chest, published recently by RUSI. It highlights the relevance of corruption to global security, and the success of Western interventions.
RUSI Analysis Podcast: Cyber-Weapons
23 Apr 2012Elizabeth Pearson speaks to Thomas Rid, a Reader in War Studies at King's College, London, and he and colleague Peter McBurney who recently wrote about cyberweapons for the RUSI Journal, setting out some pioneering new ideas about their use.
ANALYSIS PODCAST: Counter-Terrorism in an Olympic Year
12 Feb 2012Security for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will include the deployment of more than thirteen thousand military personnel joining police and private security teams. The Government revised the Games' security budget up from £282m to £553m in December last year. So what is the terror threat likely to look like? And will the operation be a hindrance to long-term UK counter-terrorism?
ANALYSIS PODCAST: The Defence Pound
3 Feb 2012Defence spending cuts are rarely out of the news. One of the ways of economising is for the UK's Ministry of Defence to spend money on so-called, 'off the shelf' systems. But there could be problems with that. In this podcast, Elizabeth Pearson talks to Dr John Louth, Deputy Head of RUSI's Defence Industries and Society Programme. He's looked into the effects of buying off the shelf - and found it could be a false economy.
ANALYSIS PODCAST: Women in Defence
30 Nov 2011
Women from the highest ranks of defence forces from ten countries have been meeting at a conference to celebrate their achievement and discuss the issues they face. Lizz Pearson talks to the organisers of the conference and finds out that the issues are less about gender and more about sharing expertise.
Women from the highest ranks of defence forces from ten countries have been meeting at a conference to celebrate their achievement and discuss the issues they face. Lizz Pearson talks to the organisers of the conference and finds out that the issues are less about gender and more about sharing expertise.
ANALYSIS PODCAST: Chinese Power and the Eurozone Crisis
25 Nov 2011In this RUSI Analysis podcast, we turn East to China, lately the focus of European financial hopes.
ANALYSIS PODCAST: Assessing the Libya Campaign
16 Nov 2011RUSI Director Professor Michael Clarke assesses the Libya military campaign after the fall of Qadhafi and the transition to a new Libyan government. He talks to Lizz Pearson and outlines RUSI's research into this intervention.
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