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Maik Fielitz is a social scientist and conflict researcher. He is currently head of the research unit on right-wing extremism and digitalisation at the Jena Institute for Democracy and Civil Society and co-head of research at the German Federal Working Group against Online Hate as well as co-editor of the online magazine Machine Against the ...

Sean McCafferty is a Marie Curie Doctoral Fellow at Metropolitan University Prague as part of the EU-GLOCTER project 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 (IMSISS) jointly ...

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 ...

Imogen Richards is a lecturer in criminology at Deakin University. Her research focuses on social, news, and alternative forms of online media. Additionally, she writes about the political economy of (counter-)terrorism and the performance of security in response to social crises. She has authored monographs with Manchester University Press and Routledge, exploring the political economy ...

Lydia Khalil is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, Convenor of the AVERT (Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism) Research Network and Project Director, Transnational Challenges Program, Lowy Institute. Lydia has spent her career focusing on the intersection between governance, technology and security. She has a broad range of policy, ...

Dr Michele Grossman is Professor and Research Chair in Cultural Diversity and Community Resilience at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia. She is Director of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS) and the founder and Convenor Emeritus of the AVERT Research Network.  Michele’s research focuses on engaging communities ...