Eric Grove
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Dr Eric Grove is director of the Centre for Security Studies in the Department of Politics at the University of Hull.
He was born in Lancashire in 1948 and studied history at the universities of Aberdeen and London (postgraduate MA War Studies 1971). He became a civilian lecturer at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1971 and stayed for thirteen years, leaving as Deputy Head of Strategic Studies. He then worked as a self employed strategic analyst and defence consultant, among other things acting as principal consultant to the Foundation for International Security's Common Security programme, starting the Russia-UK-US naval talks, helping design the Sea Power gallery at the National Maritime Museum and teaching strategic studies and international relations at The Royal Naval College Greenwich and the University of Cambridge.
His books include 'Vanguard to Trident' (the standard work on post-1945 British Naval policy), 'The Future of Sea Power', 'Sea Battles in Close-Up: World War Two', 'Fleet to Fleet Encounters' and 'The Price of Disobedience;' (a reassessment of the Battle of the River Plate). He was the co-author of the 1995 edition of the official publication BR1806 'The Fundamentals of British Maritime Doctrine'. A major new book, 'The Royal Navy 1815-2000' is due out in November.
His publications were the basis of a PhD in Security Studies awarded by the University of Hull in 1996.
Dr Grove has recently begun to appear frequently on television and radio as a contributor to programmes on modern naval history and other defence subjects. He spent a year teaching at the US Naval Academy in 1980-81 and six months in 1997 as a visiting research fellow at the University of Wollongong's Centre for Maritime Policy.
He is much in demand as a speaker at conferences all over the world, most recently Sea Power 2004 in Sydney in February this year. He is a Vice President of the Society for Nautical Research, Member of Council of the Navy Records Society and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
His mobile telephone number is: +44 (0)7 889 221 946.
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