Tom Maguire is a Teaching Fellow working with the King's Intelligence and Security Group.

Prior to joining the department, Tom was a Junior Research Fellowship at Darwin College and Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge. His PhD thesis completed at POLIS, awarded the Lisa Smirl Prize for best thesis in his year in 2015, conceptually explored interactions between the practices of intelligence and propaganda, with an empirical focus on British and American state use of these tools in Cold War Southeast Asia.

Tom's concurrent ongoing research is interrogating the aims, nature and impacts of interactions between the security sectors of states in the Global South and Western states like the UK since 1945, in particular focusing on security assistance and security sector reform.

Outside of academia, Tom was formerly the John Garnett Visiting Fellow within the National Security & Resilience Studies programme at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), a defence and security think tank on Whitehall, focusing on conflict, violent extremism and organised crime in East Africa.

Tom is also a co-convenor of the UK Study Group on Intelligence and the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar.