Ethics
Sécurité des chercheurs et traumatisme vicariant : revue de la littérature et recommandations à l’intention des universités, des superviseurs et des chercheurs
May 7, 2026Ce rapport passe en revue la littérature existante sur la sécurité des chercheurs et le traumatisme vicariant afin de répertorier les dangers auxquels les chercheurs sont confrontés lorsqu’ils étudient des domaines de recherche sensibles. Il examine également les pratiques et stratégies prometteuses visant à atténuer ces risques. Il commence par une discussion sur les circonstances ...
The Ghost in the Machine: Counterterrorism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
May 7, 2026In the aftermath of 9/11 security agencies augmented their counterterrorism (CT) apparatuses with advanced analytics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their ability to identify and neutralize terrorists. Under this regime, humans remained the central actors, tasked with understanding information and crafting a response. The advent of Generative AI (GenAI) changes this ...
“Catch 22”: Navigating Institutional Ethics and Researcher Welfare in Online Extremism and Terrorism Research
April 29, 2025VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Catch 22: Institutional ethics and researcher welfare within online extremism and terrorism research
March 4, 2025Drawing from interviews with 39 online extremism and terrorism researchers, this article provides an empirical analysis of these researchers’ experiences with institutional ethics processes. Discussed are the harms that these researchers face in the course of their work, including trolling, doxing, and mental and emotional trauma arising from exposure to terrorist content, which highlight the ...
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right
December 3, 2024Institutional ethics review procedures aim – in principle – to minimise harm and evaluate risks, providing an important space to consider the safety of participants and researchers. However, literature has questioned the effectiveness of the process, particularly for reviewing ‘risky’ topics in a risk-averse environment. This article reports the findings of interviews with 21 researchers ...
Facebook Data: Why Ethical Reviews Matter in Academic Research
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Ethics is Method, Method is Ethics: What Terrorism Researchers Should Know
August 21, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Trolling and doxxing: Graduate students sharing their research online speak out about hate
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
‘Terrorism Informatics’ Part IV: Predicting Extremist Behaviour
August 8, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...