In November, VOX-Pol launches the new Work in Progress Seminar Series. These seminars are open to members of the VOX-Pol Network only. The objective of the series is to provide a space for researchers within the network to share projects and papers which they currently working on but are not finished. The aim is for peers to provide members ...

Welcome to Volume 12, Issue 10 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. NEW VOX-Pol PUBLICATION VOX-Pol has published a new report titled, Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints authored by Dr Antonia Vaughan. The report was launched with an online event hosted by Dr. Elizabeth Pearson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. ...

VOX-Pol has published a new report ‘Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints‘ by Dr Antonia Vaughan. Read the new report in full and for free at this link. All VOX-Pol reports are open access and can be found on the Publications page. About the author Dr. Antonia Vaughan recently completed a ...

The first VOX-Pol Next Generation Network Conference took place on 25 and 26 September 2025 Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. The next Gen Network is a community of early-career researchers (ECRs) working on issues related to violent online extremism in its many forms. The conference included a huge diversity of topics and close to ...

The VOX-Pol Blog publishes weekly on Wednesdays on the topic of online extremism and online terrorism. It began in 2014 and now has over 500 entries. Each Blog post is added into the VOX-Pol Online Library so it’s searchable by title, topic and author. The Blog publishes original research, article summaries, book reviews, editorials, and ...

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 ...