Dr Sal Rohan is a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies. Since joining the new UK Joint Staff College in 1997, she has been instrumental in the development of Joint Military Education. Having served as Deputy Dean and Deputy Head of the Defence Studies Department, she also has wide experience in senior course management, as Academic Director of the postgraduate joint and international Advanced Command and Staff Course and of the Intermediate Command and Staff course Land. Her responsibilities have included the translation of military objectives into educational outcomes through curriculum design, course development and support, and the negotiation of multi-stakeholder buy-in. She has had responsibility for Quality Assurance of all Departmental teaching and assessment and is currently engaged in the development of a new Masters Programme for the British Army.

A specialist in European security, (The Western European Union. International Politics Between alliance and Integration, Routledge, 2014), she has served as faculty member of the European Union’s European Security and Defence College, and is an academician at the Central European Academy of Science and Art.

Sal’s current research on service, national and international Professional Military Ethics Education (PMEE) has taken her as far a-field as South America and the Balkans, where she has had unprecedented access to military establishments. She has contributed to the work of the UK Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre as a member of the Tri-Service Military Ethics Working Group, conducting a review of the current Moral Leadership training gap and developing an ethics education and training curriculum. She has also worked with the UK single services on their provision of through-career ethics education, alongside chaplains, military trainers, recruiters and personnel planners. Her work on the Professional Military Ethic as a vehicle for Military Ethical Education is due for publication imminently (Ashgate), and she is co-author (with David Whetham) of a commissioned manuscript on comparative professional military ethics education (Manchester University Press), to be published in 2017. She is also an active member of the European International Society for Military Ethics.