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…
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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…
Community Reporting – the key to defeating terrorism?
How do people feel about reporting on their friends & family members? Michele Grossman and Paul Thomas plan to find out The recent spate…
Things that spread: Epidemics on networks
Dr Thilo Gross discusses how epidemics spread on networks and why these insights are starting to make a real impact in an ever more…
Using networks to predict the impact of ‘bad apples’ on team performance
Jeroen De Jong explains how can we predict the impact of ‘bad apples’ on team performance. In the past few decades, organisations have increasingly…
Leadership is a Social Network: Implications for Security
Dorothy Carter and Cynthia Maupin highlight the security implications of leadership networks. It can take years to understand why and how certain individuals associated…
Can female participation in political violence lead to social progress? – a case study from Germany
What role can women play in terrorist groups, how might that be reported and can it help pave the way for women in other…
Predicting and preparing for the failure of complex systems
Christos Ellinas looks at how a co-ordinated event could single-handedly disrupt the operation of a complex system. Can Kim Kardashian’s photo break the Internet?…
The Bluffers Guide To Networks
Researchers on networks, and especially social network analysis, use a variety of technical terms to describe the elements and structure of a network. But,…
Why networks matter
Adam Joinson & Brittany Davidson outline why we should study networks, and how doing so can provide insights for security practitioners. What are networks?…
Gathering Full and Faithful Human Intelligence
Human intelligence is a vital aspect of tackling serious organised crime. CREST Doctoral researcher Jordan Nunan is investigating memory encoding and retrieval techniques for…
Understanding the far-right landscape
Benjamin Lee demonstrates that, although the vast majority of far-right activists are non-violent, far-right activism has security implications in the UK and globally. Developing…