ICST.Fall2012

New Center Fellow
Samuel Hunter
Dr. Hunter is an Assistant
Professor of Psychology
in the Industrial and
Organizational program area
at The Pennsylvania State
University. He received his
Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from
the University of Oklahoma in
2007. Dr. Hunter has published
more than 50 publications in outlets such as the Journal
of Applied Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly,
Journal of Business Ethics, and the Creativity Research
Journal. He currently serves on the editorial board for
the Leadership Quarterly and the Journal of Creative
Behavior. He has received funding from a range of
sponsors, including the National Science Foundation
and the Office of Naval Research.
Dr. Hunter’s research interests include leadership and
innovation management. Within the area of leadership,
his interests include understanding darker leader
behaviors, including leader error and leader deviance.
Within the area of innovation, his interests focus on the
enhancement and development of innovation in the
workplace with a particular emphasis on the innovation
context.
Dr. Hunter has already been an active ICST collaborator;
he has played an instrumental role in the Bomb to
Bombmaker project funded by the Office of Naval
Research and will also be a co-Principal Investigator in
a new project focusing on identifying and undermining
leaders.
AT THE CENTER
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New Research Associate
Neil Shortland
Neil Shortland is a Research
Associate at ICST and
researcher on several
ICST projects, including
investigating typologies
of terrorist behavior and
the implications of this for
sentencing decisions. Neil’s
current research interests
include adversarial creativity and the interaction of
security counter-measures and terrorist organization’s
strategic and tactical decision-making. He is also
interested in problems facing UK and US Armed Forces
during transition and withdrawal from Afghanistan,
as well as in emerging regions of conflict. Previously,
Neil worked for the Defence Science and Technology
Laboratory, an agency that conducts science and
technology research for the UK Ministry of Defence.
Here, Neil worked on operationally relevant research
to assist Government and the UK Armed Forces. He
has predominantly published reports around terrorist
behavior and provided social science support to
training. Neil holds an MSc with Distinction from the
University of Liverpool in Forensic and Investigative
Psychology, and a BSc from the University of Bristol.
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