Zoe Marchment

Dr Zoe Marchment is currently a postdoctoral research associate on the GRIEVANCE Project, a five-year research project at the Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London (UCL) funded by the European Research Council (ERC). GRIEVANCE seeks to make significant advances in increasing our understanding, and thereby reducing the risk, of extremist violence.

Her primary research interest focuses upon spatial risk assessment and management. She has provided multiple presentations and briefings to government on this topic. As well as this, Zoe is currently Co-Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator and Lead Researcher for projects funded by Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, UK Home Office, CPNI and Newark Public Safety. These roles involve liaising with stakeholders, organising and conducting interviews and surveys with front-line practitioners, critiquing official guidance documents, and synthesising evidence bases.

Previously, she has worked as a research assistant on grants funded by the European Union and CREST which focused upon the areas of terrorist and criminal risk assessment, and other related projects for Dstl, FP7 Preventing, Interdicting and Mitigating Extremism (PRIME) and the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence.

These projects spanned topics such as spatial patterns of incidents, gender and terrorism, offender demographics, situational aspects of terrorist decision-making, lone-actor terrorism, and online radicalisation.

CREST Outputs

Projects
Commissioned year
Development of Risk Assessment Schemes for Channel
This project will develop a prototype risk assessment scheme for individuals referred to Channel through the refinement of existing guidance and the production of a new process.
Project
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2020 – 2020
Core year
Factors That Deter Threat Actors And Reconnaissance
This project aims to develop our understanding of hostile actors’ experiences and behaviour, including their target selection and reconnaissance, with the purpose of informing existing and new forms of deterrence.
Project
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2020 – 2023
Articles
Report
Zoe Marchment, Paul Gill
How robust is the evidence base for the human ability to recognise suspicious activity/hostile reconnaissance?
This literature review was produced as part of the CREST project: Factors That Deter Threat Actors And Reconnaissance. The project aims to develop our understanding of hostile actors’ experiences and behaviour, including their target selection and reconnaissance, with the purpose of informing existing and new forms of deterrence.
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Article
Zoe Marchment, Paul Gill
Evaluating the Channel Programme’s Vulnerability Assessment Framework
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4 min read