Cyber Threats Research Centre Members

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Assessing and responding to threats in cyberspace

Visiting Researchers

Meet our Visiting Researchers

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The Members of CYTREC

J.M Berger

Extremism | Violence | Extremist Ideologies | CVE | Social Media | Terrorism

J.M Berger

Dr Patrick Bishop

Deterrence theory | Cybercrime Control Strategies | Computer Misuse

Dr Patrick Bishop

Assad Burki

Terrorist Financing | Cyber laundering | Organized Cyber Crime

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Lord Alex Carlile of Berriew CBE KC

Terrorism | Cybercrime | Regulatory Law and Practice | Foreign Policy

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Professor Maura Conway

Online Extremism & Terrorism | Online Radicalisation

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Dr Sara Correia-Hopkins

Cybercrime | Cyber Law | Victimisation | Offenders | Data Science

Sara Correia

Huw Darling

Terrorism | Radicalisation | Extremism | Prevention

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Ninian Frenguelli

Gender In The Online Far Right | Terrorism | Extremism | Radicalisation

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Professor Andrew Glazzard

Terrorism | Narratives | CVE | Prevention

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Florence King

Gender | Cybercrime | Cyber Law | Social Media

Seán Looney

Social Media | Human Rights | Political Terrorism

Seán Looney PhD student

Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

Digital Communication | Online Grooming Resilience-Building

Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

Professor Stuart Macdonald

Counterterrorism | Criminal Law | Human Rights

Professor Stuart Macdonald

Dr Ashley Mattheis

Extremism | Digital Culture | Gender | New Media | Propaganda

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Sean McCafferty

Terrorism | Insurgency | Propaganda | Technology

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Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees

Human Rights | Open Source Investigations | International Criminal Law

Yvonne McDermott Rees

Dr Miraji Mohamed

Extremism | P/CVE | Radicalisation | Gender | Youth | New Media

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Dr Reza Montasari

Digital Forensics | Cyber Threats | Dark Web | Open Source Intelligence

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Dr Lella Nouri

Radical Right | Far-Right | Social media | Online Extremism

Dr Lella Nouri

Dr Alastair Reed

(Counter)Terrorism | Radicalisation | Propaganda | Strategic Communications

Dr Alastair Reed

Connor Rees

AI Ethics | Extremism | Social Media

Dr Livio Robaldo

LegalTech | Regulatory compliance | Explainable AI | NLP | Data Protection

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Ellie Rogers

Online Extremism | CVE | Social Media | Radicalisation

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Dan Soper

International Law | Jurisdiction | Digital Data | Human Rights

Dan Soper, PhD student

Jack Springett-Gilling

PCVE Messaging and Civil Society | Terrorism | Extremism | Radicalisation

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Andrew Staniforth

Counter-terrorism | National security | Cybersecurity | Open Source Intelligence

Dr Kris Stoddart

Cybersecurity | Cyberterrorism | Cybercrime and the law | International security

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Kerime Toprak

Cybercrime | Financial Crimes | Organized Crime

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Sam Treacy

Communications (online and offline) | Narratives | Extremism

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Dr Katy Vaughan

Counterterrorism Law And Policy | Human Rights

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Shahed Warreth

Cybercrime | Social Media | Terrorism | Extremism | Open Source Intelligence

David Wells

Counter-terrorism | CVE | Far-right | Human rights

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Dr Joe Whittaker

Terrorism | Radicalisation | Extremism | Social Media

Joe Whittaker

Moctar Yedaly

Privacy | Data Protection | Terrorism | Extremism | Radicalization

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Dr Kamil Yilmaz

Political Violence | Radicalization | Deradicalization | Counterterrorism | CVE

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