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Dr. Alta Grobbelaar is a lecturer and researcher in Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa where she also serves as Programme Director in the Social Science Programme. Her work focuses on terrorism and its various manifestations in Africa, she utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis in her research ...

Dr Jade Hutchinson is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Security Studies at Charles University in the Czech Republic and an internationally recognised expert on far-right extremism and online youth radicalisation serving as a grant researcher at Macquarie University. Dr Hutchinson’s research focuses on the intersections of online extremism, sociotechnical systems, and socioemotional harm. ...

Brenna Helm is a Research Associate and doctoral candidate (ABD) in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on extremists’ use of the Internet and online subcultural communities, with a particular emphasis on the far-right and male supremacism. In her research, Brenna examines radicalization and mobilization pathways, subcultural engagement among ...

Dr. Kamil Yilmaz works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CyTREC), Swansea University. He holds a PhD in applied (political) anthropology from Columbia University and multiple master’s degrees in criminal justice, international affairs, and anthropology. He has taught undergraduate and graduate students in counterterrorism, international politics, discourse analysis and research methods, ...

Shahed Warreth is a PhD candidate at Swansea University. Her research looks at applying digital forensics and machine learning to the automatic detection of modified terrorist propaganda. She also works in the trust and safety field. Shahed has an International Master’s in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS), awarded by the University of Glasgow, Dublin ...

Michael Waltman is Associate Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on texts that are important to hate groups in the United States and right wing extremist globally. This discourse is sometimes recognized as hate speech, propaganda, and disinformation. Regardless of the moniker, he is interested in how these ...

Christi Van der Westhuizen is an Associate Professor heading up the Research Programme at the Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She was a Visiting Professor at the Institute of African Studies and the Research Centre Global Dynamics at Leipzig University, Germany, in 2022-3. Previously she worked ...

Dr Gina Vale is a Lecturer of Criminology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology at the University of Southampton. She is also an Associate Fellow of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT). Gina’s research takes a feminist, intersectional approach to studying terrorism and extremist violence. She primarily focuses on terrorist governance, genocide, ...

Vít Střítecký is Associate Professor of Security Studies and Head of the Department of Security Studies at Charles University, Prague. He is also Founding Director of the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS). In his research he focuses on the interplay between security and technology, currently with an interdisciplinary focus on ...

Dr Keith Spiller is Lecturer in Criminology at University of Southampton and his research focuses on the social consequences of surveillance and monitoring. He has a particular interest in the tacit knowledges employed by organisations and individuals when performing security roles. Recent work has reviewed the impacts of UK Counter Terrorism and Security Act (2019), ...