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Projects
We fund cutting-edge, world-class research into security threats. Explore the projects on this page to learn more.
Current projects:
Core
- Zainab Al-Attar
Practice Consolidation And Assessment - Paul Gill
Factors That Deter Threat Actors And Reconnaissance - Claire Hardaker
Linguistic Tools To Measure Source Motivation And Intent - Lorraine Hope
Developing Best Practices For Online Elicitation - Adam Joinson
Modelling Online Engagement Patterns To Infer Risk - Sarah Marsden
Constraining Violence - Paul Taylor
Best Practices For Disruption And Measures Of Effect - Aldert Vrij
Online Efficacy Of Cognitive Credibility Assessment
Commissioned
- Noémie Bouhana
Environment And Interventions: Assessing The Environmental Risk Of Terrorism - Lewys Brace
Con.Cel: Tracking The Online Contagion Of InCel And Male Supremacist Ideology - Calvin Burns
The Effect Of Different Online Mediums And Variable Formats On Information Disclosure In Vetting Interviews - Paul Gill/ Bettina Rottweiler
Conspiracy Theories And Extremism - Martin Innes
Mapping And Modelling Influence Interactions Between Conspiracy Communities And Extremist Entities (MICE2) - Anastasia Kordoni
Detecting Hybrid Social Identities: A Computational Analysis Of Influence And Resilience In Online RWE Communities - David McIlhatton
Evaluating Security Interventions In Public Locations: Developing And Testing A Co-Created Framework For Protective Security - Rachel Monaghan
Prosecuting Extremists In The United Kingdom: An Exploration Of Charging, Prosecution And Sentencing Outcomes - Alexandra Phelan
Misogyny, Hostile Beliefs And The Transmission Of Extremism: A Comparison Of The Far-Right In The UK And Australia - Nicola Power
The Psychology Of Interoperability: Building Better Multi-Agency Counter-Terrorism Training (INTEROP) - Charis Rice
Situational Threat And Response Signals (STARS): Public-Facing Counter-Terrorism Strategic Communication Campaigns
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65 results
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Core year
Understanding & Countering Online Behaviour
Project
| 2015 – 2020
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Core year
Eliciting Information
Project
| 2015 – 2020
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Core year
Protective Security & Risk Assessment
Project
| 2015 – 2020
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Core year
Behavioural Analytics
Project
| 2018 – 2020
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Core year
Actors and Ideologies in Social Context
Project
| 2015 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Mining the Chans: Exposing the Visual and Linguistic Dynamics of Radicalisation in Far-right Image-boards (MineChans)
Project
| 2020 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Development of Risk Assessment Schemes for Channel
Project
| 2020 – 2020
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Commissioned year
State of the Union: A Synthesis of Recent Evidence for Multilevel Drivers of Involvement in Terrorism
Project
| 2020 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Mapping terrorist exploitation of and migration between online communication and content-hosting platforms
Project
| 2020 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Memetic Irony and the Promotion of Violence within Chan Cultures
Project
| 2020 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Disengagement and Desistance: A Systematic Review
Project
| 2020 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Knowledge Management Across the Four Counter-Terrorism ‘Ps’
Project
| 2020 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Individual differences in the adoption, secure use, and exploitation of smart home technology
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and extremist Islamist disinformation
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Rapport building: Online vs in-person interviews
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Human Engagement Through Artificial / Augmented Intelligence
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
The adaptable law enforcement officer: Developing a measure of adaptive effectiveness
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Understanding Twenty-First Century Militant Anti-Fascism: An Analytical Framework and Matrix
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Simulated Phishing and Employee Cybersecurity Behaviour (SPEC)
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Why do people spread disinformation on social media?
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Collecting and Leveraging Identity Cues with Keystroke Analysis (CLICKA)
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
The Internal brakes on violent escalation
Project
| 2017 – 2018
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‘Hot periods’ of anti-minority activism and the threat of violent domestic extremism: Towards an assessment framework
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Quantifying the effectiveness of an evidence-based rapport-building training programme
Project
| 2017 – 2018
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Commissioned year
Understanding moral injury and belief change in the experiences of police investigators in child exploitation units
Project
| 2019 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Soft Facts and Digital Behavioural Influencing
Project
| 2017 – 2018
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Commissioned year
Taking Decisions about Information Value
Project
| 2017 – 2018
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Commissioned year
Keeping Secrets Online
Project
| 2017 – 2018
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Commissioned year
The Cyber Security Risks of Digital Hoarding
Project
| 2017 – 2018
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Commissioned year
Imaginative Scenario Planning for Law Enforcement Organisations
Project
| 2017 – 2018
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Commissioned year
Assessing and mitigating the impact of organisational change on counterproductive work behaviour: An operational (dis)trust based framework.
Project
| 2017 – 2018
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Countering Violent Extremism: Methods, Processes and Outcomes
Project
| 2018 – 2022
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Commissioned year
An Exploratory Study of Expertise and Inertia in Emergency Service Responses in a Counter-Terrorism Live Exercise
Project
| 2016 – 2017
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Core year
Actors and Narratives
Project
| 2015 – 2018
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Commissioned year
How Does Isis’ Online Propaganda Demonstrate Mechanisms of Radicalisation?
Project
| 2016 – 2017
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Core year
Modelling Online Engagement Patterns To Infer Risk
Project
| 2020
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Commissioned year
Differences in the Ability to Spot Rare, Non-salient or Hidden Targets
Project
| 2016 – 2017
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Core year
Developing Best Practices For Online Elicitation
Project
| 2020
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Commissioned year
Why do people adopt conspiracy theories, how are they communicated, and what are their risks?
Project
| 2016 – 2017
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Core year
Best Practices For Disruption And Measures Of Effect
Project
| 2020 – 2023
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Commissioned year
Learning and unlearning terrorism: The transition from civilian life into paramilitarism and back again during the conflict and peace process in Northern Ireland
Project
| 2016 – 2017
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Core year
Linguistic Tools To Measure Source Motivation And Intent
Project
| 2020 – 2023
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Commissioned year
Terrorist Decision-Making Regarding Security and Risk
Project
| 2016 – 2017
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Core year
Practice Consolidation And Assessment
Project
| 2020 – 2023
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Commissioned year
Minimal Social Exclusion: A Means to Increased Information Gain in Human Intelligence Interviews?
Project
| 2016 – 2017
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Core year
Constraining Violence
Project
| 2020 – 2023
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Commissioned year
Understanding When Extremism Gives Way to Moderate Politics: The Case of Sri Lanka, 1983–2016
Project
| 2016 – 2017
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Core year
Factors That Deter Threat Actors And Reconnaissance
Project
| 2020 – 2023
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Commissioned year
Ethno-national, religio-cultural or anti-Muslim? Investigating Sikh radicalisation in Britain.
Project
| 2016 – 2017
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Core year
Online Efficacy of Cognitive Credibility Assessment
Project
| 2020 – 2023
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Commissioned year
Community reporting of violent extremist activity and involvement in foreign conflict
Project
| 2016 – 2020
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Commissioned year
Environment and Interventions: Assessing the environmental risk of terrorism
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Commissioned year
Con.Cel: Tracking the Online Contagion of InCel and Male Supremacist Ideology
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Commissioned year
The effect of different online mediums and variable formats on information disclosure in vetting interviews
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Commissioned year
Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Commissioned year
Detecting Hybrid Social Identities: A Computational Analysis of Influence and Resilience in Online RWE Communities
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Commissioned year
Mapping and Modelling Influence Interactions between Conspiracy Communities and Extremist Entities (MICE2)
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Commissioned year
Evaluating Security Interventions in Public Locations: Developing and Testing a Co-created Framework for Protective Security
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Commissioned year
Prosecuting Extremists in the United Kingdom: An Exploration of Charging, Prosecution and Sentencing Outcomes
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Commissioned year
Misogyny, hostile beliefs and the transmission of extremism: a comparison of the far-right in the UK and Australia
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Commissioned year
The Psychology of Interoperability: Building Better Multi-Agency Counter-Terrorism Training (INTEROP)
Project
| 2022 – 2023
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Commissioned year
Situational Threat And Response Signals (STARS): Public-facing Counter-Terrorism Strategic Communication Campaigns
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Core year
Trauma, Adversity & Violent Extremism
Project
| 2021 – 2023
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Other year
Digital Emerging Biometrics
Project
| 2021 – 2022
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Core year
CONTEST
Project
| 2022 – 2023