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,…
ECR Series
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….
The role of gender in violent extremism
Rosie Mutton’s research analyses the role of gender in violent extremism. She studies the variety of ways in which women participate in extremist groups…
How do we measure rapport in interviews?
What is rapport, and how do we measure it? CREST PhD student Lynn Weiher monitors nonverbal and verbal behaviour during investigative interviews and examines…
How do teachers engage with PREVENT?
Teachers in the UK are now on the front line in preventing terrorism, James Lewis is investigating how they carry out this important duty….
The Importance of Terrorists’ Families and Friends
Families are complicated and how they influence terrorists isn’t always clear. CREST PhD researcher Simon Copeland is investigating the role that families and friends…
Grassroots counter messaging in the UK
How can both top-down and bottom-up approaches to counter messaging learn from each other? CREST researcher Ben Lee presents an insight into his research…
Connecting Culture to Deception Detection
Irina Tache is a CREST Researcher at Lancaster University whose PhD is considering the extent to which techniques for detecting deception are effective across…
Early career researchers on security threats
Read about the innovative applied research being undertaken by early career researchers at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats. When we…