CREST bursaries for Naturalistic Decision Making conference
CREST is helping build the capacity of security-related research by providing three travel bursaries for students to attend the annual Naturalistic Decision Making conference….
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Russia and Disinformation
How does Russian state disinformation operate in the Caucasus region or Ukraine? To what extent can disinformation be traced to specific actors or agents…
Assessing the Risk of Extremist Violence
A new CREST report published today provides detail on several frameworks that are used to assess risks of extremist violence. Psychologists have been assessing…
CREST Roundup: February 2019
This is a roundup of what CREST has been up to in February 2019. You can stay up-to-date with all our work by signing…
Performance and coping under stress in security settings
A new CREST report, published today, summarises presentations from a workshop highlighting the latest cross-disciplinary academic research on performance and coping under extreme stress….
PhD in the Social Signals of Interpersonal Trust
Applications are invited for a 3.5-year EPSRC DTP PhD studentship in the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) at Lancaster University….
The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: A Descriptive Typology
Why do some ‘extremists’ or ‘extremist groups’ choose not to engage in violence, or only in particular forms of low-level violence? Joel Busher, Donald…
Call for an Impact Review of CREST’s Performance
With its initial 3-year research portfolio drawing to a close, CREST seeks to commission an analysis of the impact of its activities and outputs….
CREST Roundup: January 2019
This is a roundup of what CREST has been up to in January 2019. You can stay up-to-date with all our work by signing…
Deradicalisation and Counter Violent Extremism
Two guides – an introduction to deradicalisation programmes, and an overview of what good CVE practice should look like – are being published today…
Job alert: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
The University of Dundee are looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Human-Computer Interaction/ Psychology/ Trust/ related fields) to carry out qualitative research. The appointment…
PhD Studentship: Behavioural Science and Security
The University of Bath are offering a PhD studentship linked with the ‘Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats’ (CREST) project, under the…