Five-year grant funding the training of highly qualified personnel (2011-2016)

Ontario Early Researcher Award

University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts Award for Distinguished Service to the faculty (2015)

Distinguished Service Award

Research Network on the Study of Terrorism, Security and Society Award

Study of Terrorism, Security and Society Award

Women In International Security

International Studies Association

Canadian Network on Terrorism, Security, and Society

Canadian Political Science Association

The Ethics of Mega-Event Security When the World Comes toVisit

Privatizing Security, Securitizing Policing: The Case of the G20 in Toronto, Canada

Counter‐Terrorism and Institutional Design

Paradiplomatic policing and relocating Canadian foreign policy

Veterans and military masculinity in popular romance fiction

Veronica M. Kitchen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her research on security governance across the global/local divide combines a self-consciously critical approach that acknowledges the contingency of knowledge and the importance of reflexivity with a commitment to translating that perspective into policy relevant analysis. She researches co-operation in national security policing, integration in counter-terrorism bureaucracies, and North American security governance (with Kim Rygiel at the Balsillie School). Kitchen is co-lead (with Jenny Mathers) of a project on heroism in world politics, within which her interest is in portrayals of heroic military masculinity in popular culture. Kitchen also conducts research and outreach activities on the use of simulation in teaching world politics.
 
Kitchen provides frequent media commentary on subjects related to national security, counter-terrorism and international security. She is an executive member of the Canadian Network on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS). She has also recently been chair of the Professional Development Committee of the ISA-Canada, and co-lead of the conflict and security research cluster at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

International Security

Counter-Terrorism

National Security

Foreign Policy

Canada-United States relations

 international relations

 mega-event security

Critical Security Studies

Gender and security

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Justin Trudeau makes first visit to Washington

Hunt Continues for Berlin Suspect

Security in Public Spaces

Seeing things differently...

‘You’re not RCMP anymore’: Security experts blast Kevin Vickers for overreacting in tackling Irish protester

Six-Year-Old Ontario Boy Named 'High Profile' Flight Risk

Canadian who volunteered to fight with Kurds against ISIS says it's the ‘right thing to do’

B.C. terror plot: How seriously should we be taking terrorism in Canada?

How big is Canada’s terrorism threat?

Associate Professor of Political Science

Veronica Kitchen is an associate professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo, and at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her research evaluates and analyzes the counter-terrorism institutions that have proliferated post-9/11, asking whether or not society has been well-served by the policies and practices of these institutions. Dr. Kitchen explores political, ethical and societal implications of heightened security, with the goal to provide evidence for more informed decisions about security policy.

Veronica Kitchen - Post-9/11 security and counter-terrorism

The Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto held a one-day conference on threats and preparedness in Canada on April 27, 2016. Panel Three on the theme "Do we Learn from the Day After?", was moderated by Stewart Bell of The National Post, and featured panelists Calvin Barry (former Crown Prosecutor), Colin Freeze of the Globe and Mail, and Prof. Veronica Kitchen  of University of Waterloo.

RCMI Conference on Threat and Preparedness April 27 2016: Panel Three

Dr. Veronica Kitchen, from the Department of Political Science, is interviewed by Mark Morton about her use of simulations in her courses.

Interview Dr. Veronica Kitchen on Using Simulations in the Classroom

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