Bettina Rottweiler

Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats

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CREST Security Review

CSR #BASS 26 NABS+

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Dr Bettina Rottweiler is Associate Research Professor at NCITE (National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology and Education). Her research analyses risk and protective factors for violent extremist intentions using general population surveys.

CREST outputs

Projects
NABS year
Identifying Paths of Engagement with The Com: A Mixed Methods Study
COM Networks
NABS+ Project
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2025
Commissioned year
Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
This project makes significant advances in understanding the relationship between beliefs in conspiracy theories and extremist causes, by demonstrating whether certain types of conspiracy theories are more closely aligned with violent intentions (e.g. belief in QAnon vs. flat-earth) as well as articulating the relevance of conspiracy and extremist beliefs to one another.
Project
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2021 – 2022
Articles
new
Guide
Caitlin Clemmow, Bettina Rottweiler, Sandy Schumann
Identifying Pathways to Engagement with The Com: A Study of Open-source Data
This brief summarises the results of an exploratory analysis of open-source data examining whether particular combinations of (risk) factors are consistently associated with four different harmful behaviours linked to engagement with The Com.
Guide | NABS+ |
1 min read
Guide
Paul Gill, Bettina Rottweiler, Caitlin Clemmow
The Personality Types that Amplify or Diminish the Relationship Between COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Support for Anti-Government Violence
Guide |
3 min read
Guide
Bettina Rottweiler, Paul Gill
Conspiracy Theories and Extremism: Meta-Analysis of Psychological, Cognitive and Personality Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs
Guide |
2 min read
Article
Bettina Rottweiler, Paul Gill
Conspiratorial thinking and far-right extremist attitudes
Article |
5 min read
Article
Bettina Rottweiler, Paul Gill
Risk Factors for Violent Extremist Beliefs and Parallel Problem Areas
Article |
3 min read

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