Our advisory work has taken the form of study days, lectures, and professional education in Oxford and beyond, including the United States, the Netherlands, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Poland, Finland, Romania, Turkey, UAE, Afghanistan, Singapore, Australia, and Japan. Our advisory services are in keeping with the Centre's mandate to make research relevant and to engage critically with those charged with making decisions or executing change.

The CCW Director has personally been called upon to act as a specialist advisor on security, defence and future developments to the:

• UK Cabinet Office

• UK Ministry of Defence

• The Foreign and Commonwealth Office

• Parliamentary Select Committees

• All Party Parliamentary Groups

• GCHQ

• UK, US, and NATO Armed Forces

• US Department of Defense and State Department

• NATO Headquarters

• Japan’s Ministry of Defence

‘‘A note of sincere thanks for conducting a number of highly successful ‘viva’ session yesterday at Pembroke College. It was just what I was after and my students enjoyed the experience enormously. Thank you for making it such a rich and rewarding experience. I am also extremely grateful for supper thereafter. Fantastic food and great company: what a wonderful way to end a thoroughly rewarding, insightful, and gratifying afternoon.’’

- General Andrew Roe, Defence Academy, 4 April 2019

Bespoke CCW events include lectures and study days, advice, committee support and connections to subject specialists.

CCW's collaborations have taken the form of both long-term relationships and individual events. 

Although our staff are able to travel to clients, most of our events are hosted in Oxford. The University is replete with conference and seminar facilities, while the city’s location, with easy access to central London and the airports as well as excellent links to both the North and the West make it a popular venue. Delegates have often spoken about the inspirational surroundings and of feeling refreshed and energised at the university.

Many of our events take place in Pembroke College, the Centre's home college. The original seventeenth and eighteenth century quads have been supplemented by the elegant Rokos Quad which comprises state-of-the-art conference facilities, finished to the highest standard and with full disabled access. As a result, Pembroke is able to offer meeting spaces varying from the high-spec Auditorium with seating for 170 to traditional, wood-panelled boardrooms.