New report on Russian-speaking Foreign Fighters
Existing data on Russian-speaking groups and individuals linked to the Islamic State is often inaccurate, according to CREST Researcher Cerwyn Moore and ESRC-funded PhD…
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Sikh Radicalisation in Britain
In November 2015 the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the UK. According to Indian media, during this visit he presented a dossier on…
Religious transmission among young adults in the digital age
Dr Jasjit Singh explains how young British Sikhs learn about their religious and cultural heritage, and the factors that influence their beliefs. One of…
Cyber security decisions: how do you make yours?
Professor Awais Rashid and Dr Sylvain Frey investigate cyber security decision making processes through a tabletop game. In any organisation, employees make implicit or…
Decision making under stress
Dr Emma Barrett and Dr Nathan Smith consider the factors that affect the decision making capability of groups in extreme or remote environments In…
Learning from ideological variance and change
What can the Islamist Caucasus Emirate group teach us about the ideology of insurgent groups? CREST Associate Researcher Mark Youngman seeks to find out,…
What are the barriers to reporting people suspected of violent extremism?
A vital element of counter-terrorism strategy is encouraging people to report suspected terrorists. But it isn’t easy to do this if it’s someone you…
Covert Networks
How can social network analysis help with the study of terrorist and criminal networks? Martin Everett researches covert, or dark, networks and presents an…
Trust and Insider Threat: ensuring we don’t look back – or forward – in anger
How can networked trust in organisations, both between employees and processes be maintained, especially during times of great change? Rosalind Searle and Charis Rice…
Extremist Prose as Networks
Stephane Baele, Katharine Boyd, and Travis Coan look at using Co-occurrence Networks to Monitor Extremist Communications A well-developed body of research demonstrates that network…
What is rapport, and how can you increase it?
Kate Muir looks at rapport: what is it and how can we increase it? Have you ever met someone and just immediately ‘clicked’ with…
Islamic State messaging on Telegram
Mia Bloom explains how Islamic State use the messaging service Telegram A persistent feature of terrorism is communicating a message. Whether broadcast in ancient…