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Sean McCafferty is a Research Assistant in the School of Law at Dublin City University and a member of the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) at Swansea University. His research focuses on open-source intelligence (OSINT), terrorism, propaganda, and technology. He is a graduate from the Erasmus Mundus International Master’s in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies ...

Debbie Ging is Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities. She teaches and researches on gender, sexuality and digital media, with a focus on digital hate, online anti-feminist men’s rights politics, the incel subculture and radicalisation ...

David Wells is a global security consultant, an Honorary Research Associate at Swansea University’s Cyber Threat’s Research Centre, and a non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute. His work focuses on emerging terrorism and counter-terrorism challenges, including terrorism and technology, AI and the intersection between terrorism and climate change. Between 2017 and 2022, he was ...

Shaswati Das completed her PhD at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of York. Her research focussed on terrorist recruitment and counterterrorism in Kashmir, examining social movements, organisation and framing theories and prevalent political opportunities structures. Shaswati has studied the perpetuation of terrorist organisations and their clandestinity in regions of contestation, in ...

Anna Kruglova is Lecturer of Terrorism Studies at the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, an Associate fellow at the International Centre for Countering Terrorism in the Hague and a member of the AVERT Research Network. Anna is also an author of the book Terrorist Propaganda, Recruitment and Branding: Selling Terror Online. Anna has a ...

Dr. Alastair Reed is an Associate Professor at the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) at Swansea University. Previously, he was the Director of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in the Hague, and a Senior Researcher at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA). An expert in (Counter) Terrorism and Insurgency, he has ...

Dr Shannon Zimmerman is a Lecturer in Strategic Studies as Deakin University at the Australian War College. She is also a Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. She has two areas of research. The first is on peacekeeping, peace aoperations, and UN Stabilisation operations and looks at how these operations ...

Helen Young is a senior lecturer in literary and cultural studies in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, and from 2024-2028 will be an Australian Research Council Future Fellow leading the project “The Politics of Medievalism: Persuasive Narratives”. Helen has a PhD (2007) from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor ...

Meg Upton (B.Ed – Rusden/Deakin, M.Ed – UniMelb, PhD – UniMelb) is a lecturer and tutor in Education at Deakin University in both undergraduate and Masters courses (M.Teach). She teaches across several core units in the M.Teach including pedagogy curriculum, professional placement and wellbeing, and has taught in Education, Knowledge and Society (philosophy of education) ...

Dr Matteo Vergani is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Deakin University. Matteo’s research focuses on investigating the relationships between on- and offline discrimination, micro-aggressions, hate speech, hate crime, and politically motivated violence. Matteo uses mixed methods and interdisciplinary collaborations with data scientists and other STEM colleagues to look at the factors that cause and ...