Programme
Please see a quick overview of the programme events below. You can download the full conference programme here.
LAST UPDATED: 02/07/2024
Quick overview
The conference will take place in the University of St Andrews campus in the School of Physics and Astronomy Building. You can download a map here.
Tuesday 16th July
- 12:00 – 13:15 Lunch and registration
- 13:15 – 14:30 Welcome and Keynote
- 15:00 – 17:00 Conference sessions
- 18:00 Conference dinner
Wednesday 17th July
- 09:00 – 12:30 Morning Conference sessions
- 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
- 13:30 – 14:00 Poster session
- 14:00 – 15:00 Lightning Talks
- 15:30 – 17:00 Afternoon Conference sessions
- 17:30 – 18:30 Panel
- 18:30 – 19.30 Prizegiving and drinks reception
Thursday 18th July
- 08:30 – 09:00 Refreshments
- 09:00 – 12:30 Conference sessions
- 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch and departures
Full timetable
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Tuesday 16 July
| 12:00-13:15 | Registration and lunch | ||
| 13:15-14:30 | Welcome and Keynote - Theatre A | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Refreshments | ||
| 15:00 – 17:00 | Session 1:Terrorism Offenders: Risk, Resilience and Recidivism Chair: Rachel Monaghan Room: Theatre B | Session 2: Security and Technology Chair: Stacey Conchie Room: Theatre C | Session 3: Global Threats, Local Responses Chair: Adam Carter Room: Maths 1A |
| The Rehabilitation of Terrorist Offenders in HMPPS: Lessons Learnt and Future Directions | Bridging the Socio-Technical Gap: Addressing Security Challenges in Operationalising Machine Learning | Public Perceptions of Violent Extremism and the Prevention of Violent Extremism in Mauritania and Burkina Faso | |
| Andrea Hall & Lianne Murphy | Debi Ashenden | Joel Busher & Bianca Slocombe | |
| Value and Effectiveness of Safeguarding in Targeted Violence Threat Assessment: The Role of Unmet Mental Health Needs in the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre | The Duality of Security Technology: A Structurational Perspective on the Factors Influencing their Organisational Adoption | Improving Safety Outcomes in Emergency Responders Through Enhanced Situational Awareness | |
| Amber Seaward | Jonathan Foster | Allan Parry | |
| Extremist Offending - Understanding the Population, Preliminary Results | Exploring Cyber Security Adoption Decision Making: Story Stem Completion & Critical Decision Method Expert Interviews | Militant Loyalties: Familial Attachments and Emotional Pulls | |
| Ewa Stefanska | David Gamblin | James Hewitt | |
| Evaluating Intervention Outcomes; Key Findings and Future Direction | Examining the Effect of AI and Human Guidance on Human Decision Making | At the Edges of Terror | |
| Kris Simpson | Joe Pearson | Martin Gallagher | |
| 18:00 onwards | Conference Dinner - The Rhynd | ||
Wednesday 17 July
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Refreshments | ||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 4: Incels: Contextualising Gendered Violence Chair: Zainab AlAttar Room: Theatre B | Session 5: Building & Maintaining Rapport to Support Intelligence Gathering Chair: Anna Leslie Room: Theatre C | Session 6: Resilience, Risk & AI Chair: James Hewitt Room: Maths 1A |
| Exploring Narratives of Social Exclusion, Rejection, and Victimisation in Misogynist Incel Forums | Getting Information Quickly: The Time Critical Questioning (TCQ) Protocol for Time-sensitive Debriefing | LLMs and Protective Security | |
| Allysa Czerwinsky | Lorraine Hope | David McIlhatton & Matthew Francis | |
| Exploring Incel and Intimate Partner Violence Side-by-Side | With Great Power: Relationship Progression and Power Dynamics in the Informant - Source Handler Relationship | Using Multi-agent AI to Model Risk and Build Resilience | |
| Anne Peterscheck | Andreea-Antonia Raducu | Katherine O'Lone & Justin Lane | |
| How Groups Appraise and Respond to Internal and External Threats: A Review and Case Study | Understanding Individual's Perceptions and Behavioural Indicators of Rapport within Investigative Interviewing | Do Threat Actors Respond Emotionally to Deception? A Think-Aloud Study Using Decoys in Active Directory Networks | |
| Laura Smith | Jamie Kiltie | Andrew Reeves | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 7: Rhetoric and Extremism Chair: Matthew Francis Room: Theatre B | Session 8: Online/offline Chair: Debi Ashenden Room: Theatre C | Session 9: Northern Ireland: Dynamics of Violence Chair: Andrew Silke Room: Maths 1A |
| Through the Looking Glass: An Interdisciplinary and Multi-Stakeholder Strategy for Engaging with Extremist Propaganda | Assessing the Relationships Between Active and Passive Internet Use and the Likelihood of Planning or Committing Terrorist Attacks | Exploring the Prosecution Landscape for Extremist Actors in Northern Ireland | |
| Ashton Kingdon | Sandy Schumann | Rachel Monaghan | |
| A Temporal Analysis of Moral, Psychological and Social Factors in the Rhetoric of Far-right and Violent Jihadi Extremists | Presenting a New Dimensional Typology for Crowdsourced Digital Actions | And Then There Was One: Hierarchical Isolation Influence on Active Paramilitary Involvement Within Segregated Communities Under Threat and the Effect of Significance. A Northern Ireland Study | |
| Stephen Herron | Cassie Lowery | Emma Ylitalo-James | |
| Salafi-Jihadist Mobilisation: A Thematic Analysis of Narratives of Citizenship Revocation and Statelessness. | Exploring Web3’s Role in Terrorism: Implications for Digital Counterterrorism Strategies | The Violence of Peace: An Analysis of Contemporary Paramilitary Style Attacks in Northern Ireland | |
| Stephanie Scott-Smith | Chidinma Rita Nebolisa | John Morrison | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30-14:00 | Poster session | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Lightning talks Chair: Nicola Power Room: Theatre B | Lightning talks Chair Lorraine Hope Room: Theatre C | |
| Police Decision Making | Study Populations Account for Demographic Diversity But What About Neurodiversity? | ||
| Laura Boulton | Penny Brookes | ||
| Exploring Moral Injury in the UK Ambulance Service Using Qualitative Methods | Investigating Leadership and Influential User Actions and Emergence in Online Far-right Extremism Instant Messaging Platforms | ||
| Chrisie Pullin | James Stevenson | ||
| The Rise of Manosphere Influencers and Conspiracy Theories on Podcasts | An Exploration in Modern Agency and Alienation: Ulster Loyalists and the British Working-Class | ||
| Bella Orpen | Peter Bothwell | ||
| Barriers to the Effective Evaluation of Novel Threats | Fixation Driven by Extreme Overvalued Beliefs in Lone Actor violence: Consensus on Terminology and Conceptualisation among Forensic Experts | ||
| Sydney Reichin | Kolbrun Kristinsdottir | ||
| Forecasting the Future: Challenges and Opportunities for HUMINT Research | Beyond Extremism, Radicalisation and Risk Factors: A Review on the use of Risk Assessment Instruments for Terrorism and a Proposed Focus on Behavioural Indicators | ||
| Jessica Hall-Jennings | Astrid Bastiaens | ||
| The Online Contagion of Extreme Right Wing Ideology and Conspiracy Theories in Ireland | Understanding Terrorism through Evolution: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Tinbergen's Questions | ||
| Orla Lynch | Domenico Galimi | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Refreshments | ||
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Session 10: Assessing Risk: Tools, Approaches and Pracitioner Perspectives Chair:John Morrison Room: Theatre B | Session 11: Negotiation and Influence Chair: Simon Wells Room: Theatre C | Session 12: Neurodiversity and Violent Extremism Chair: Paul Grasby Room: Maths 1A |
| Providing Quality without Conviction: The Development of a ‘Terrorist Risk’ Assessment and Supporting Processes | Theory in Practice: A Temporal Assessment of the Revised Behavioural Influence Stairway Model via Simulated Suicide Negotiation | Restricted Interests in Autism & their Intersection with Complex Crimes: Implications for Understanding and Addressing Risk | |
| Rachel Frankham & Jade Gray | Miriam Oostinga & Luke Russell | Zainab AlAttar | |
| “But what if I get it wrong?” - A Discussion of Practitioners Understanding of Current CVE/PVE and Radicalisation Duty Guidance and Whether it Impacts their Practice | Insights into (Suicide-Related) Crisis Negotiations from a Negotiation Database in the Netherlands | Neurodiversity and Violent Extremism: Convergent Findings from International Practitioner Focus Groups and Case Studies | |
| Erin Lawlor | Jedidjah Schaaij | Nadine Salman | |
| Measuring Change with People who have Committed Terrorist Offences: Challenges and Implications for Risk Assessment | Trust and Public-facing Counter-Terrorism Strategic Communication | What are the Vulnerability Factors for Radicalisation for Autistic Individuals Referred to Prevent and How Could They be Best Supported? | |
| Adam Carter & Sian Watson | Charis Rice | Rachel Worthington | |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Panel - “Haven’t We Tried This Before? Using Research to Drive Change” - The Buchanan building | ||
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Prizegiving | ||
| 18:45 - 19:30 | Drinks and canapés - Lower College Hall | ||
Thursday 18 July
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Refreshments | ||
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 13: Disaster Response Chair: Charis Rice Room: Theatre B | Session 14: Radicalisation and Recruitment Chair: Laura Smith Room: Theatre C | Session 15: Counter-Terrorism: Data and Evaluation Chair: Paul Grasby Room: Maths 1A |
| Interoperability in Extreme Environments: Insights from the Emergency Services | Trauma, Adversity and Violent Extremism: Towards a Trauma-Informed Perspective on Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation | The Unrepentant: Characteristics and Profiles of Convicted Terrorist Offenders who Re-offend after Release from Prison | |
| Nicola Power | James Lewis | Andrew Silke | |
| Cognition in Command: Applying Cognitive Task Analysis to Access Expert Cognition to Inform Decision Making and Training in Emergency Response Teams | Good Lives in Right-Wing Extremist Autobiographies | Mapping the Sphere of Influence: the Feasibility of Client-centered Outcome Evaluation in Multi-agency and Multi-professional C/PVE Contexts | |
| Ashley Ferkol | Hanna Paalgard Munden & Sarah Marsden | Svetla Koynova & Sophie Scheuble | |
| Mutual aid : A Collective Adaptive Behavior for Disaster Response and Social Resilience. A Qualitative Research after the Storm Alex | Youth Engagement in Violent Extremism in Northern Mozambique: A Social Network Analysis of the Mobilisation Process | Exploring the Effectiveness of Counter-Terrorism Strategies Through Model Design | |
| David Ortiz Haro | Rufino Sitoe | Erika Brady | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 16: Security and Technology Chair David McIllhatton Room: Theatre B | Session 17: Definitions, Sentencing and Recruitment Chair: Sarah Marsden Room: Theatre C | |
| A Globalised World and the Importance of Law Enforcement Information Sharing | Exploring Patterns of Online Recruitment among Non-Violent Extremists in the UK (2016-2021): A Quantitative Look at Hard and Soft Recruitment Methodologies among Far-Right, Islamist Extremist and Eco-Radical Groups | ||
| Becky Phythian | William Allchorn & Elisa Orofino | ||
| A Novel Application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to Free-form Police Crime Notes | What’s in a Name? An Analysis of the Definitions of Terrorism and Extremism from a Linguistic Perspective | ||
| Darren Cook | Samantha Stark | ||
| A Community Philosophy Approach to Understanding Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues around the use of Technology in the Criminal Justice System | What Factors Influence the Sentencing of Female Terrorists in England and Wales? | ||
| Ailsa Millen | Chloe Squires | ||
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | ||