Dr Zac Rogers

Research Fellow

College of Business, Government and Law

place Social Science South (102)
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Zac Rogers PhD is a Research Lead at the newly established Jeff Bleich Centre for the US Alliance in Digital Technology, Security, and Governance at Flinders University of South Australia.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy International Relations 2019

Bachelor of International Studies (Honours) 2013

Honours, awards and grants

University Medal 2013

Bill Brugger Prize 2013

Key responsibilities

Currently lead researcher in a defence/academic collaborative project exploring the impact of digital transformation from infrastructure to the human/computer interface on Australia’s internal and external security, national interests, defence planning, and strategy.

Teaching interests

International relations

Security Studies

Strategic/military affairs

Cyber security

Digital disruption

Further information

Online engagement

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/if-5g-takes-little-longer-australia-all-better

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/paradigm-shift-understanding-propaganda-digital-age

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2019/1/28/targeting-our-blind-spot-of-trust-five-impossibilities-of-liberal-democracy-in-a-dangerous-digital-age

https://www.cove.org.au/adaptation/article-cognitive-warfare-the-fight-weve-got/

https://www.cove.org.au/war-room/article-trust-as-a-strategic-resource-for-the-defence-of-australia/

https://voegelinview.com/in-defense-of-gray-reply-to-sean-haylocks-review-of-john-grays-seven-types-of-atheism/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-burial-kantianism-zac-rogers/

Conference papers

'Risk Mitigation Machines? Blockchain implications in cyber, defence, and strategy,' Current Directions Blockchain Conference, 3 July 2017, Flinders New Venture Institute, Tonsley.

'Innovation and Organisational Culture: Opportunities for China and Australia,' Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Cooperation and New Vision of China and Australia, June 17-22 2016 Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

'The ontology of regional order: Resilience in the Western Pacific,' Seventh Oceanic Conference on International Studies, 4-6 July 2016 University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.

Co-authored with David Willis & Jesse Barker Gale, 'Regional Maritime Security in East Asia,' CUSAPS Discussion Paper No.1/2014, Centre for United States and Asia Policy Studies.