Dr Irina Goldenberg | Centre for International and Defence Policy

Irina Goldenberg

Director Research Operational and Organizational Dynamics

Department of National Defence

Affiliation

Irina Goldenberg is a director of personnel research in the Canadian Department of National Defence. Her main areas of expertise include military recruitment and retention, military culture and identity, and topics related to Total Defence Forces personnel management (including integration and collaboration amongst regular forces, reservists, defence civilians). She is an internationally recognized researcher and plays an active role in a number of scholarly organizations, including the Canadian Defence and Security Network (CDSN), the NATO Science and Technology Organization, and the European Research Group on Military and Society (ERGOMAS). Dr. Goldenberg has published extensively in scholarly journals and (co)edited 4 books, including The Defence Team: Military and Civilian Partnership (with Angela Febbraro), Information Sharing in Military Operations (with Joseph Soeters), Military Behavioural Sciences in the Handbook of Military Sciences, and Total Defence Forces in the 21st Century (with Joakim Berndtsson and Stéfanie von Hlatky). She is series editor of the Springer Military and Society book series (with Rene Moelker).

BERNDTSSON, J., GOLDENBERG, I., and VON HLATKY, S. (2023). Total Defence Forces in the 21st Century (Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press). 023.
GOLDENBERG, I. (2025). NATO Science and Technology HFM-390 Research Workshop on Reserve Forces: Challenges and relevance to NATO and national security – Technical Report. NATO Science and Technology Organization. HFM-390-TER.
GOLDENBERG, I., & Otis, N., (2023). Canadian Armed Forces Reconstitution: The Critical Role of Personnel Retention in Thomas Juneau and Philippe Lagassé (eds.), Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice, Volume 2, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 29-50.
GOLDENBERG, I., (2022). Military Behavioural Sciences Series. In the Handbook of Military Sciences. Springer.
VON HLATKY, S., GOLDENBERG, I., and Hughes, T., (eds .), (2023). Many Faces of Diversity in Military Employment. Journal of Military, Veteran, and Family Health 8, Special Issue 1.