Welcome to Volume 12, Issue 9 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. UPCOMING VOX-Pol PUBLICATION A new VOX-Pol report will be launched in a few weeks time, titled Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints by Antonia Vaughan. The launch date and online event will be announced soon! Dr. Antonia Vaughan recently completed a PhD in Politics, Languages ...

Is your research related to online extremism and/or terrorism? Would you like to share some of your findings or reflections with an audience, including other researchers, policymakers, law enforcement, social media company representatives, and others, with similar interests? If so, how about contributing to the VOX-Pol Blog? We will publish your contribution and communicate it to ...

The VOX-Pol Blog publishes weekly on a Wednesday, and takes a break in August, when we share the most-read post of the year. This year, VOX-Pol has published a total of 48 posts. Over ten of these articles were on the topic of ‘incels’ and ‘online misogyny’. ‘Young people’ were the primary focus of five ...

Welcome to Volume 12, Issue 8 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. NEW PUBLICATION We are pleased to share a new report from Human Digital and VOX-Pol, titled, ‘Gore & Violent Extremism: An explorative analysis of the use of gore websites for hosting and sharing extremist and terrorist content’.  The report was launched at an online event. ...

VOX-Pol published a new report titled ‘Gore and Violent Extremism: An explorative analysis of the use of gore websites for hosting and sharing extremist and terrorist content‘ on 9 July 2025, and launched at an online event with its authors on the same day. The report is written by Human Digital, with Dr Ali Fisher ...

Welcome to Volume 12, Issue 7 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. UPCOMING EVENTS You are invited to a VOX-Pol webinar taking place on Wednesday 9 July 2025, starting at 17:00 UK time. (16:00 UTC / 12:00 midday EDT). Register to attend by emailing info@voxpol.eu. This event is to launch a new report from Human Digital and VOX-Pol, titled, ‘Gore & Violent ...

The recent VOX-Pol webinar ‘Right- and left-wing violent extremist abuse of digital technologies in South America, Africa and Asia‘ is now available to watch on YouTube. This webinar, held on Wednesday 18 June 2025, accompanies the report of the same name, which is available to read online and for free on the VOX-Pol Publications page. ...

The 2025 AVERT International Research Symposium is an in-person event taking place on 24-26 November 2025 at Deakin University’s Deakin Downtown Campus, Melbourne, Australia. Overseas presenters can register to present online via Zoom. This year, AVERT is collaborating with VOX-Pol and the Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) Conference to deliver this year’s Symposium: Signal or noise? Navigating the changing nature of violent ...

Welcome to Volume 12, Issue 6 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. UPCOMING EVENTS You are invited to a VOX-Pol webinar taking place on Wednesday 18 June 2025, starting at 15:00 (UK time). Register to attend by emailing info@voxpol.eu. This webinar accompanies the recently published United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and VOX-Pol joint report: Right- and left-wing ...

VOX-Pol Next Generation Network Conference 2025 Hosted by Charles University, Prague September 25-26th, 2025 We are pleased to announce the VOX-Pol Next Generation Network Conference, a community of early-career researchers (ECRs) working on issues related to violent online extremism in its many forms. The conference will be held September 25-26th, 2025 at Charles University in ...