The Hunt Lab’s research and training focusses on security, intelligence analysis and related areas, including strategic thinking and decision making.
We work with Australian and international organisations in the National Intelligence, Diplomatic and Defense communities, as well as with the business community.
In 2025, we will be teaching “Grand Strategy and Analysis” an undergraduate subject in the Faculty of Science. This subject is a core component of the new AUKUS related BSc in Nuclear Powered Submarines, but will be offered as an elective in the Faculty. We are also excited to announce that we are developing a Graduate Certificate in Intelligence and Security Studies.
Our team has expertise in epistemology, analytics, intelligence studies, disinformation, strategic thinking, risk analysis and futures thinking, expert elicitation, and software development.
Research
The Hunt Lab is currently engaged in research in the following areas:
- Strategy, futures thinking and risk analysis
- Evaluation of analytic quality
- Building resilience to, and combatting disinformation, misinformation and malign influence (DMMI)
- Strategies for improving analytic thinking and communication
- Narrative abduction and structured analytic techniques
- Expert elicitation and ‘group sourcing’
- Methods and tools for enhancing collaboration
- Crowdsourcing intelligence
- Augmenting human analysis with Artificial Intelligence
Example: Analytic Rigour in Intelligence
Analytic rigour is often spoken about in intelligence, but has been poorly defined and understood. The Hunt Lab’s major report on Analytic Rigour in Intelligence sought to change this.
The Hunt Lab convened an expert panel of intelligence analysts, academics and specialists as a key part of this research project, using a modified, online version of the well-known Delphi method. The public version of the report is now available.
More about our Research & Publications
Training
The Hunt Lab provides a range of professional development training and services to the intelligence community, government organisations and private industry. We currently deliver advanced training courses focused on improving analytic reasoning to a number of Australian organisations with intelligence functions. We also deliver graduate level training in Recognising and Managing Disinformation to the national intelligence community through the National Center for Intelligence Training.
We are also currently developing a suite of advanced-level short courses covering the central analytic concepts and skills possessed by top-quality analysts.
Services
The Hunt Lab provides a range of bespoke services in expert elicitation and group sourcing for complex projects including report writing involving numerous experts.
Example: Mapping our Covid-19 Recovery
On April 27, 2020 an expert taskforce of more than 100 researchers drawn from across the Group of Eight (Go8) Universities presented the Australian Government with a “Roadmap to Recovery”, a report aimed at helping Government plot the best path through COVID-19.
The Hunt Lab developed and implemented a ‘group sourcing’ methodology to meet the challenge of articulating the collective wisdom of this large and diverse group of experts on a complex set of questions in a short period (the report was written in under three weeks). This Pursuit magazine piece describes how the Hunt Lab used its SWARM Platform to do this.
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