Understanding digital traces
How well does your phone know you? Can it describe your personality better than you can? CREST Doctoral researcher Kris Geyer investigates. Getting a…
ECR Series
How do security teams collaborate to understand threats to their building management systems?
Emma Boakes writes about her doctoral research on cyber and physical security collaboration. Could an unknown third party remotely manipulate your building’s heating systems? Could this cause…
Teamwork in extreme environments: identifying challenges and generating solutions
CREST doctoral researcher Olivia Brown draws on her research to give insights into what enables effective teamwork in different types of extreme environments, including…
Developing an Evidenced-Based Approach to Enhance Recall of Intelligence
Human intelligence is a vital aspect of tackling serious organised crime. CREST Doctoral researcher Jordan Nunan is investigating rapport, memory encoding and interviewing techniques…
Affect and emotion in extremist discourse
Affect and emotion seem to be key driving forces in extremist discourse and terror activities. In her PhD research, Kristine Endsjø is looking at…
Is nonverbal mimicry an important tool in eliciting information?
CREST doctoral researcher Abbie Maroño is investigating the effects of interpersonal closeness on nonverbal mimicry during face-to-face interactions. Human beings are distinctively social creatures,…
Increasing Self-Disclosure in Interviews
CREST doctoral researcher Christina Winters explains how interview context and interpersonal tactics can produce more information about job candidates in sensitive roles. Pre-employment vetting…
Learning from ideological variance and change
What can the Islamist Caucasus Emirate group teach us about the ideology of insurgent groups? CREST Associate Researcher Mark Youngman seeks to find out,…
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…
Memory recall: The challenge of eliciting reliable information
Eliciting reliable and detailed information is a crucial element of intelligence gathering. There is a rich seam of psychological research on eyewitness memory and…
Teamwork in extreme environments
CREST Researcher Olivia Brown looks at how teams function effectively in extreme environments. Teamwork can be difficult at the best of times. Most people…
What Makes People Susceptible to Malevolent Influence Online?
Dr Emma Williams’s research looks at what makes people susceptible to malicious attempts to influence them online, focusing on online scams and phishing emails….