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The 2026 VOX-Pol Summer School is taking place at Swansea University, Singleton Campus, from Monday 22 to Friday 26 June 2026. Call for participants Swansea University is delighted to, once again, host the VOX-Pol Summer School in 2026. This week-long course will run from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th June 2026 (from 9am-5pm) and is ...

VOX-Pol has published a new report ‘Negotiating Responses to Online Terrorism Threats in the EU: State-Platform Diplomacy 2015 – 2019’, written by Marguerite Borelli.  The report was launched online on 17 November 2025 where Valère Ndior (Professor of Law at the Université de Bretagne occidentale in France) and Gavin Sullivan (Reader in International Human Rights Law at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recent VOX-Pol webinar to launch the new VOX-Pol report, ‘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, accompanying the report of the same name, is available to read online and for free ...