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Lee Jarvis is Professor of International Politics at Loughborough University, UK, Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia, UK. Lee’s research focuses on how security threats such as terrorism are constructed and communicated, and the implications of this for ...

Paul Gill is a Professor of Security and Crime Science at University College London. He has over 80 publications on the topic of terrorist behaviour. He currently manages European Research Council Starter Grant project entitled GRIEVANCE. Collectively these grants have been worth over 9 million euro. These projects focused upon various aspects of terrorist behavior ...

Richard Frank is Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada and Director of the International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC). Richard completed a PhD in Computing Science (2010) and another PhD in Criminology (2013) at SFU. His main research interest is Cybercrime. Specifically, he’s interested in researching hackers and security ...

James Fitzgerald is Assistant Professor in Security Studies at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, and Founding Director of the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS): DCU’s first Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree. Previously co-convenor of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group (2013-2017), he specialises in ...

Dr Melissa-Ellen Dowling is Senior Lecturer of Politics and International Relations at the Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University. Her research focuses on extremism and ideological threats to liberal democracy that have an online dimension. Melissa’s most recent publications appear in journals such as Information, Communication & Society, New Media & ...

J.M. Berger is a consultant and author working on a suite of related issues that include extremism, misinformation, propaganda, advanced social media analysis, and technology sector content policies. A research fellow with VOX-Pol and a postgraduate research student at Swansea University’s School of Law, where he studies extremist ideologies, he is the author of four ...

Garth Davies is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University and is the Associate Director of the Institute on Violence, Extremism and Terrorism at Simon Fraser University. Because Dr. Davies has a short attention span, his current work involves research on: risk assessment for violent radicalization, the social psychology of ...

Kareem El Damanhoury (Ph.D. Georgia State University) is an Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism Studies and faculty affiliate in the Center of Middle East Studies at the University of Denver. His research focuses on visual communication, media and conflict, and international/intercultural communication. Much of his work in recent years has centered on the use ...

Carol Winkler (Ph.D. University of Maryland) is a Professor of Communication Studies and lead faculty member of the Transcultural Conflict and Violence initiative at Georgia State University. Her research interests include terrorism, visual communication, networked argumentation, and presidential rhetoric. Over the past seven years, she has examined the media strategies of extremist groups in the ...

Lise Waldek is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University. Lise’s research draws from her applied professional and academic experiences in security studies. Prior to moving into academia she worked for the UK Ministry of Defence. Her research interests include countering violent extremism, online violent extremism, behavioural science and ...