"Security Risk and Management for Live Events"
Sole author in creating a 100,000-word peer-reviewed academic textbook on security risk management principles and case studies at live events. The target audience of the textbook is events management post-secondary students as well as practitioners.
To be published by Taylor & Francis Group: Routledge, early 2026.
"The need for live event security risk management practices in a post-COVID-19 world"
Sole author of chapter in peer-reviewed book Events and Society: Bridging Theory and Practice edited by Mike Duignan, published by Routledge.
"Preventing Drug and Alcohol Related Harms at Music Festivals in Canada"
Summarizes approaches to preventing drug-related and alcohol-related harms at Canadian music festivals. The report highlights the importance of event organization and design, promotion of health, reduction of harms, mass gathering medicine, enforcement, and event security.
Published by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, June 2015.
"Canada could have its own Fyre Festival fiasco if it doesn't amp up event regulations"
Examining the need for increased regulation and professionalism within the live events industry.
Published by The Conversation, August 2022.
"Canada's Trucker Protest: An Epic Security Failure or Triumph of Democratic Freedoms?"
Examining the security failure of the convergence of protesters in Ottawa.
Published by The Conversation, February 2022.
"Coronavirus, rail blockades: Crisis management plans protect companies"
Organizations need crisis management and business continuity plans to ensure operational resiliency when critical infrastructure systems are stressed or unavailable during national distruptions.
Published by The Conversation, March 2020.
"Right-wing extremism: The new wave of global terrorism"
"Right-wing extremism: The new wave of global terrorism"
"Right-wing extremism: The new wave of global terrorism"
The rise of right-wing extremism begs the question on whether we are entering a new phase of global terrorism.
Published by The Conversation, October 2020.