Lewys Brace

We're hiring a Lecturer in Criminology to join a great team. Come and join us in Devon, we had pasties.

Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...

🎓Fully Funded PhD Alert🎓AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Me #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. #Retweet #PhD #phdlife 👇👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨New Project Alert🚨I am Investigating the AI-Climate-Conflict Nexus With a Particular Focus on Data Centres as a Target for Terrorism and Cybercrime. If You or Someone You Know are Interested in #AISustainability #WaterWeaponisation #AIEthics #ClimateChange #Conflict Please Reach Out 👇👇

🚀 VOX-Pol Institute webinar on Chatbots & Extremism 🚀

14 October, 15:00 to 16:00 (UK time)

- Do extremist actors misuse chatbots?
- What policies and safety mechanisms are deployed by tech platforms?
- How can chatbots be used proactively in P/CVE?

To attend, please email info@voxpolinstitute.org

VOX-Pol Institute | Shaping Responses to Online Extremism Join us in Munich for a hands-on, expert-led workshop designed to deepen your understanding of the challenges and strategies in addressing violent extremism and terrorism content online. This interact...

⚡ Final hours. Extremists won’t wait.
Curveballs. Consequences. Decisions under pressure.
This is it for those professionally tasked with countering extremist content.
Registration closes tonight. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct
Sign up → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
#VOXPolInstitute #CounterExtremism

I am Excited to be Editing a Special Journal Issue Titled Terrorism, Radicalisation and Social Order: Perspectives on Emerging Threats and Responses. If You Have Something to Say about the Future of Terrorism/Extremism Research Check Out The CFP 👇https://www.nature.com/collections/ejdcaehbha

Terrorism and Political Violence Revisiting Terrorist Motivation, Guest Edited by John Horgan and Max Taylor. Volume 37, Issue 7 of Terrorism and Political Violence

The entire special issue on terrorist motivation has just been published, with several pieces #openaccess.

Check it out.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftpv20/3...

🚨 New PhD Opportunity at Anglia Ruskin University 🚨

Happy to announce a new funded PhD opportunity - looking at The Role of AI in Extermist MisInformation (w/ Lakshmi Babu Saheer & Elisa Orofino).

📌 ESRC Research Priority Areas: Security, risk and resilience www.cam-dtp.ac.uk/students/cur...

This programme offers a unique blend of substantive knowledge of how emerging technologies (particularly #data and #AI) are impacting contemporary and future #security, #defence, and #lawenforcement issues with practical training in #datascience methods (no prior data/coding experience necessary).

Check out my new paper with Andra Pascu-Lindner @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. Using survey experiments, we show that voters do not view potential women PMs as less competent in forming governments or less influential over policy outputs when compared to men. Read more:

ECR Mentoring The NABS+ Mentorship Scheme connects Early Career Researchers with experienced mentors in behavioural and social science for security and defence.

🫵 Are you an Early Career Researcher in behavioural or social science for security and defence? Gain one-to-one support from an experienced mentor through the NABS+ Mentorship Scheme. Deadline: 15 August

👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c... for full details and application form

🚨 ICYMI: EPOP 2025 registration open, and draft programme released! 🚨

Join us in Exeter 4-6th September on our Streatham campus for some stellar papers. Early bird rates open until 4th August, registration closes 28th August.

Those staying in Holland Hall will wake up to this view!

1 Full-time PhD Fellowship in Social Sciences (digital extremism) The Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) is looking for strong candidates for a generous, full-time PhD fellowship in the field of digital extremist communication.

My long-term collaborator Prof. Stephane Baele is recruiting for a funded PhD position to work with him in the area of digital extremist communications. Details can be found here:

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/353560

If you have any questions, please contact Stephane (stephane.baele@uclouvain.be).

The Sociology of Violent Extremism: Theoretical and Sociological Approaches This book is an essential collection addressing key challenges in studying violent extremism. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, terrorism

🚨NEW🚨

@surajlakhani.bsky.social and my new edited collection is out! Hard copy available in a few months. academic.oup.com/book/60071

Local elections: what would a good night look like for Nigel Farage’s Reform? Council seats are up for election across Tory heartlands and Nigel Farage is looking to gain hundreds of them.

Dr @hannahbunting.bsky.social has outlined what to look out for in tomorrow's #localelections25 in this @uk.theconversation.com article 🗳️

theconversation.com/local-electi...

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturer Be part of the dynamic development of Sociology social policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton.We are seeking to appoint a criminologist as Lecturer to expand our vibrant academic Depa...

The Closing Date (28th) is Approaching for Two Posts at
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
A Lecturer in Criminology and a Teaching Fellow in Crim/Sociology. Come and Join this Wonderful and Supportive Department. 👇👇 #SpreadTheWord jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Come and Join the Most #AMAZING and #SUPPORTIVE Department, We are Recruiting a Lecturer and a Teaching Fellow in #Criminology or #Sociology at the University of Southampton. Closing Date 28 April, Please Share Widely and With Anyone on the Job Market 👇👇

Out now in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism & Political Aggression:

We used group-based multi-trajectory modeling to explore how users’ online behaviors evolved as they engaged with users on the largest white supremacist forum.

The study is #OpenAccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Opportunities Check out the latest opportunities from the NABS+ community.

👉 “This is the kind of experience I wish I’d had earlier in my career.”
– Future you, after joining the NABS+ ECR Steering Group 😉
Apply now to co-lead with us & make an impact.
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
📢 Deadline: Mon 28 April
#ECR #BehaviouralScience

Opportunities Check out the latest opportunities from the NABS+ community.

Looking to grow as a leader in behavioural science?
Join the NABS+ ECR Steering Group:
✅ Shape national-level research activity
✅ Gain governance experience
✅ Plan impactful events
✅ Represent your peers
📢 Apply now: crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
#ECR #BehaviouralScience

Vol.12, Iss.4 of our monthly Newsletter appeared in subscribers' inboxes yesterday.

Includes info on new VOX-Pol Institute's (VPI) forthcoming Dublin workshops on 'The Current Threat Landscape: Networks, Platforms, & Technologies.'

Access the Newsletter online at voxpol.eu/category/pub...

A pleasure to write this short piece on what certain themes from Netflix's #Adolescence tell use about #incels and the #manosphere

More in-depth peices can be found on
@crest-research.bsky.social's site:

crestresearch.ac.uk/projects/tra...

Happy to share that our new paper is out. Here, we show how advances in computer vision is making it easier to implement bespoke image classifiers and object detection models to detect and classify memes and images on #extremist/#terrorist online spaces. #DataScience

pt.icct.nl/article/more...

Doing cool research on elections, public opinion and/or parties? Don't forget to submit your abstract for EPOP 2025 before the end of April. Link to the form here: forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi

Come share your work with an awesome group of scholars! Any questions, contact elections@exeter.ac.uk 😊

Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems How to best chart and analyse extremist digital ecosystems? This paper proposes to complement standard mapping methods based on URL outlinks, which are typically deployed but present several critic...

Our new open-access paper proposing the use of socio-semantic networks to augment traditional URL outlink analysis by including thematic proximity info into the networks and their applications in the study of online #extremist/#terrorist ecosystems is now out.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Out in the latest issue of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.

50 free online copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KTSQH...

This programme provides graduates with both an in-depth understanding of how emerging technologies (i.e. AI and data) impact security/defence/law enforcement issues and practical (and transferable) skills in data science.

#security #defence #data #datascience #AI

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Security and Data Science MSc | Postgraduate Taught | University of Exeter

Applications are open for UoE's MSc Security and Data Science starting in September 2025!

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Please contact l.brace@exeter.ac.uk if you have any questions

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For anyone interested in the study of #extremism, #terrorism, and other related issues, you should absolutely follow the Vox-Pol network. The open-source resources they provide are as useful as they are extensive.

Sharing Childhood Innocence Project here for first time. @hannahbrose.bsky.social and I tracked, compiled & analysed cases of #children (u-18s) convicted of #terrorism offences in England & Wales since 2016.
Our live update reaches total 55 cases & includes a second girl 👇
icsr.info/childhood-in...