Dr Miranda Booth is the program coordinator of the Bachelor of Humanitarian  Aid and Development and Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Society. Her research interests include strategic narratives in international relations;  strategic studies; foreign and defence policy; non-traditional security issues in the Indo-Pacific; and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief. She holds awards from the Coral Bell School of the Asia-Pacific, graduating with bachelor’s degree in International Relations with a specialisation in strategic studies from the Australian National University and a Master of Philosophy (Politics) from the University of New South Wales (Canberra), and completed a PhD in Australia's strategic narratives in the Pacific Islands. Miranda has extensive teaching experience and previously held positions at the University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales (Canberra). She specialisies in serious games play in higher education, and has high level experience across human rights and international law environments, spanning from Canberra to The Hague.