DPhil, Political Science, Department of Government, LSE, 2005.             

MSc in European Politics and Policy, Department of Government, LSE, 2000.             

BA in War Studies, Department of War Studies, King’s College, University of London,1999.

Professor Dyson joined the Department in 2012. He was previously employed as Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Politics, University of Surrey and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, LSE. He has held visiting positions at several institutions including the Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, the Department of Government, LSE, the Chair of German and European Politics, Potsdam University, the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and the Social Sciences, and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.

His current research interests are military learning and the sources of military adaptation, innovation and emulation. Professor Dyson has also published scholarship on European defence cooperation and the defence reforms of several NATO member-states/partner-states including Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Ukraine, and the United States. His research has been funded by the Alexander von Humbdolt Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Gerda Henkel Foundation and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Between 2021-25 he was PI for an ESRC grant (ES/V004190/1) examining organisational learning during military operations and training exercises which involved close cooperation with the Estonian Defence Forces, Portuguese Army, and Royal Netherlands Army.

During the last decade Professor Dyson has undertaken regular advisory work and research partnerships with the armed forces of multiple NATO member states and partner states, including Estonia, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Ukraine. He has also advised NATO organisations, such as the Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC) and several NATO Centres of Excellence. Professor Dyson's advisory activity in the UK includes work with the British Army's Lessons Exploitation Centre, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Cyber and Specialist Operations Command, and the Prime Minister's Office. In 2023 he was appointed to the NATO Independent Scientific Evaluation Group.

Professor Dyson is the author of several books, including The Politics of German Defence and Security (2007), Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in post-Cold War Europe (2010), European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory (2013, with Professor Theodore Konstadinides) and Organisational Learning and the Modern Army (2019). He is also the co-editor of Precision-strike Warfare and International Intervention (2014). Professor Dyson has published articles in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Contemporary British History, Contemporary Security Policy, Defence Studies, European Law Review, European Security, German Politics, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and Security Studies.

Undergraduate

PR 3430 Defence and Security Governance

Postgraduate

PR5908 US Foreign Policy

PR5937 Understanding Defence