Rate My Professor Tegg Westbrook

Tegg Westbrook is an Associate Professor in the Department of Safety, Economics and Planning at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, a position he has held since 2018. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Geography, a Master of Arts in International Relations, and a PhD in Globalisation Studies from Nottingham Trent University, UK. During his doctoral studies, he volunteered for two years with the Omega Research Foundation. From 2019 to 2020, he served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of St. Andrews' Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. Since 2021, he has been the study programme coordinator for the Bachelor's programmes in City and Regional Planning and Urban Planning and Societal Safety. Westbrook teaches courses in city planning, societal safety, risk management, media, and social sciences at bachelor and master levels, and has co-managed external education on resilient cities, smart cities, and climate change adaptation.

Westbrook's research specializations include security and safety technologies and their societal impacts, end-use of technologies affecting security at home, city, and global levels, resource efficiency of emergency services influenced by the built environment and ICT-enabled space-time compression, intentional radio-frequency interference targeting urban systems reliant on GNSS, proportionality in security measures for crime and terrorism prevention, coercive geospatial services via hostile architectures, electromagnetic spectrum implications for city planning, and GNSS jamming effects on Nordic-Baltic communities with escalation scenarios. Key publications encompass 'The geopolitics of satellite navigation: the jamming and spoofing threat' (2025), 'Lethal empowerment and electronic crime: A focus on radio-frequency interference capabilities' (2025), 'Cyber Security Of Autonomous Vehicles: The Implications For City Planning' (2025), 'Aircraft vulnerability to politically motivated Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) in Eastern Europe' (2024), 'Radiofrequency Interference Strategies Targeting Marine Navigation Systems: Political Motives and Consequences' (2023), 'A Taxonomy of Radiofrequency Jamming and Spoofing Strategies and Criminal Motives' (2023), and 'The Global Positioning System and Military Jamming' (year not specified in sources). He has delivered numerous public lectures, including keynotes on AI in cybersecurity, geopolitics of satellite navigation, and urban security topics at international symposia and workshops. Westbrook contributes to the university's Urban Planning Blog on topics such as anti-terrorist measures and autonomous vehicles.