Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Psychology
Abstract
In his recent CaSE speech, the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser reported that 63% of the government's challenges have solutions rooted in the behavioural and social sciences. In the area of national security, it is the mission of the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) to undertake pioneering research and translational activities that deliver such solutions. To date, our network of 140 researchers from 35 UK and international HEI/SMEs has contributed significant instrumental, conceptual and capacity-building impact for end-users (Independent Review, 2019). These contributions include providing insights into the social and ideological drivers of far-right extremism, developing tools for making inferences about risk from online data, and validating new methods for effective, ethical information elicitation.
Our 2020-2023 plan for CREST builds on this foundation but uses a renewed structure to foster agile, solution-focused activities. Our approach will deliver: (1) research that is tightly bound to the challenges of our funders while remaining world-leading in its contribution to the academy; (2) a step-change in our support for funders' evolving needs and their efforts to translate research into practice; (3) new forms of researcher-stakeholder co-working that promote knowledge exchange, research relevance, and professional development on both sides; and, (4) an engaged, collaborative international community of social scientists contributing to national security.
The renewed Centre, whose 24 researchers and 7 PhDs will work with 9 administrative, communication, and research-to-practice professionals, will pursue three Agendas:
The RESEARCH AGENDA will produce theoretically motivated, high-quality synthetic and original research on key aspects of the funders' challenges. It will comprise eight projects that are solution focused, diverse in disciplinary and methodological approach, and subject to the Centre's ethical and open science standards. In doing so, it seeks both to nurture exploration and new ideas, and to take mature concepts through to field validation.
This Agenda includes mechanisms for DIRECT TASKING, whereby funders will be able to draw on the expertise of the CREST network, securing rapid and timely responses to specific needs. This includes having researchers undertake evaluative and comparative work within the funder, which we view as facilitating impact and capacity building.
To respond to emerging challenges, £900k of CREST's funds will support short-term RESEARCH COMMISSIONING. Funds will be allocated via our established transparent and competitive process that delivers scientific excellence, stakeholder relevance, and value for money.
Combining our existing communication and network activities, the KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AGENDA will continue to innovate to ensure that research is communicated effectively across academia, our funders, government and industry, and the public. We will disseminate our findings to the academic community in peer reviewed publications, conference presentations, technical reports, and Open Science materials. We will engage users by focusing our production on fewer, high quality outputs, and by curating the existing CREST knowledge base to maximise its accessibility to time-poor user communities (e.g. via training frameworks).
The CAPACITY-BUILDING AGENDA will grow CREST's vibrant international network through a variety of events, from our biennial 150 attendee conference, to small-scale, challenge-focused residential 'sprints'. We will make a particular effort to reach underrepresented disciplines in order to foster new researcher-stakeholder exchanges, introduce new perspectives, and stimulate synergies across cognate centres and government departments. This Agenda will also train a cohort of seven PhD students, and continue our efforts to provide training and resources for the wider ECR community.
Our 2020-2023 plan for CREST builds on this foundation but uses a renewed structure to foster agile, solution-focused activities. Our approach will deliver: (1) research that is tightly bound to the challenges of our funders while remaining world-leading in its contribution to the academy; (2) a step-change in our support for funders' evolving needs and their efforts to translate research into practice; (3) new forms of researcher-stakeholder co-working that promote knowledge exchange, research relevance, and professional development on both sides; and, (4) an engaged, collaborative international community of social scientists contributing to national security.
The renewed Centre, whose 24 researchers and 7 PhDs will work with 9 administrative, communication, and research-to-practice professionals, will pursue three Agendas:
The RESEARCH AGENDA will produce theoretically motivated, high-quality synthetic and original research on key aspects of the funders' challenges. It will comprise eight projects that are solution focused, diverse in disciplinary and methodological approach, and subject to the Centre's ethical and open science standards. In doing so, it seeks both to nurture exploration and new ideas, and to take mature concepts through to field validation.
This Agenda includes mechanisms for DIRECT TASKING, whereby funders will be able to draw on the expertise of the CREST network, securing rapid and timely responses to specific needs. This includes having researchers undertake evaluative and comparative work within the funder, which we view as facilitating impact and capacity building.
To respond to emerging challenges, £900k of CREST's funds will support short-term RESEARCH COMMISSIONING. Funds will be allocated via our established transparent and competitive process that delivers scientific excellence, stakeholder relevance, and value for money.
Combining our existing communication and network activities, the KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AGENDA will continue to innovate to ensure that research is communicated effectively across academia, our funders, government and industry, and the public. We will disseminate our findings to the academic community in peer reviewed publications, conference presentations, technical reports, and Open Science materials. We will engage users by focusing our production on fewer, high quality outputs, and by curating the existing CREST knowledge base to maximise its accessibility to time-poor user communities (e.g. via training frameworks).
The CAPACITY-BUILDING AGENDA will grow CREST's vibrant international network through a variety of events, from our biennial 150 attendee conference, to small-scale, challenge-focused residential 'sprints'. We will make a particular effort to reach underrepresented disciplines in order to foster new researcher-stakeholder exchanges, introduce new perspectives, and stimulate synergies across cognate centres and government departments. This Agenda will also train a cohort of seven PhD students, and continue our efforts to provide training and resources for the wider ECR community.
Organisations
Publications
Brown O
(2022)
The problem with the internet: An affordance-based approach for psychological research on networked technologies.
in Acta psychologica
Leal S
(2022)
Interviewing to detect omission lies
in Applied Cognitive Psychology
Mann S
(2022)
Actions speak louder than words: The Devil's Advocate questioning protocol in opinions about protester actions
in Applied Cognitive Psychology
Vrij A
(2022)
Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future.
in Brain sciences
Lewandowsky S
(2021)
Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation.
in Cognitive research: principles and implications
Buckley O
(2022)
CLICKA: Collecting and leveraging identity cues with keystroke dynamics
in Computers & Security
Davidson B
(2022)
Fuzzy constructs in technology usage scales
in Computers in Human Behavior
Gabbert F
(2022)
Examining the efficacy of a digital version of the Self-Administered Interview
in Computers in Human Behavior Reports
Hinds J
(2021)
Integrating Insights About Human Movement Patterns From Digital Data Into Psychological Science
in Current Directions in Psychological Science
Hodges, Duncan
(2022)
Computers & Security
in Cyber-enabled burglary of smart homes
Brown O
(2022)
How opposing ideological groups use online interactions to justify and mobilise collective action
in European Journal of Social Psychology
Tache I
(2023)
Cultural differences in the efficacy of unexpected questions, sketching, and timeline methods in eliciting cues to deception
in Frontiers in Psychology
Power N
(2023)
The psychology of interoperability: A systematic review of joint working between the UK emergency services
in Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Smith LGE
(2023)
Digital traces of offline mobilization.
in Journal of personality and social psychology
Hope L
(2021)
Urgent issues and prospects at the intersection of culture, memory, and witness interviews: Exploring the challenges for research and practice
in Legal and Criminological Psychology
Rice C
(2022)
'The Enabling Role of Internal Organizational Communication in Insider Threat Activity - Evidence From a High Security Organization'
in Management Communication Quarterly
Mann S
(2023)
All mouth and trousers? Use of the Devil's Advocate questioning protocol to determine authenticity of opinions about protester actions
in Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
Vrij A
(2022)
How researchers can make verbal lie detection more attractive for practitioners
in Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
Shaw H
(2022)
Behavioral Consistency in the Digital Age.
in Psychological science
Baele S
(2023)
A Diachronic Cross-Platforms Analysis of Violent Extremist Language in the Incel Online Ecosystem
in Terrorism and Political Violence
Vrij A
(2021)
The Relationship between Complications, Common Knowledge Details and Self-handicapping Strategies and Veracity: A Meta-analysis
in The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
Grimani A
(2020)
An Evidence Synthesis of Covert Online Strategies Regarding Intimate Partner Violence
in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
CREST
(2022)
CSR 14: Trust
Lee Ben
(2022)
Siege Culture
Marsden Sarah
(2022)
Protective factors for violent extremism and terrorism: rapid evidence assessment
Brandon S
(2021)
CREST Guide: Substance or Snake Oil?
Baber C
(2021)
CREST Guide: AI And System Developers
Baber C
(2021)
CREST Guide: AI And Senior Managers
Marsden Sarah
(2021)
Women and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Interventions
Shaw H
(2021)
Behavioral consistency in the digital age
CREST
(2021)
CSR 12: Covid 19
Marsden Sarah
(2022)
PROTECTIVE FACTORS: theory and evidence
Marsden S
(2021)
CREST Report: Trauma, Adversity, And Violent Extremism
CREST
(2022)
CSR 13: Technology
Marsden Sarah
(2022)
Evidence Map
Nightingale Sophie
(2022)
AI
CREST
(2022)
CREST Catalogue
Nightingale Sophie
(2022)
"Multimodal biometrics: A better security system?"
Oleszkiewicz S
(2021)
CREST Report: Developing A Paradigm To Assess And Measure Adaptability
Lee Ben
(2022)
lethal subcultures
Description | CREST's objectives are detailed in the research proposal. 1. To run a world-class, interdisciplinary Centre. CREST continues to receive unsolicited requests for advice from international practitioners and academics who wish to implement a version of CREST in their home country. We continue to share best practice with newly emerging CoE and continue to build close relationships with the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology and Education Centre (NCITE; indeed, the Centre's Director delivered a keynote at our International conference). 2. Research Agenda & Dissemination. The research teams who work across 8 core programmes and 10 commissioned projects continue to undertake new, and innovative research. Core research programmes recognise the importance of understanding online behaviours and cross-cultural variations, and many of our projects incorporate one or both of these elements. The work of our researchers has resulted in 17 new peer-reviewed publications this year, and numerous project reports. In our continued commitment to Open Science, we have supported SREC in their activities to promote pre-registration of experiments and openly available code (where it is appropriate to do so), and we're pleased to see engagement by our researchers in this area. 3. Direct Tasking capability. CREST's core programme structure provides our funders with access to researchers to engage on time-critical pieces of work. This year, we received 4 direct tasking requests, and through this were able to assist on areas such as digital biometrics and age verification. 4. Commission synthetic and original research on emerging needs. Through a rigorous process of peer review, we commissioned 11 projects to work on security topics that ranged from factors that impact information disclosure in vetting interviews through interoperability training to conspiracy theory. Ten of these projects completed data collection this year, with preliminary results presented at our International BASS conference in July 2022. 3.5. Knowledge exchange/ management. CREST's outputs are published widely. This year we communicated our work through our website (www.crestresearch.ac.uk; 492,800 visits from over 168 different countries; with over 108,000 downloads of our products since October 2021-a 54% increase on the previous year), our newsletter (1,398 subscribers), social media (4,664 Twitter followers-10% of these joined this year), and our triannual magazine CREST Security Review (distributed to ~2,500 people and openly accessible on our website). This year we saw a 16% increase in the amount of meaningful web engagement (as measured by the amount of time that people spend on the site) and a 30% average increase in the number of times that a single user visited our site. This speaks to the quality of the output we provide (that people are increasingly re-visiting our pages), and suggests CREST as a 'go to' for information in our topic areas. We prepared 18 policy briefing reports and guides; 3 CREST Security Review magazines on the topics of Technology; Trust; and Trauma; and engaged in 17 networking events that ranged from virtual workshops to multi-day conferences and expos. We trained and introduced tools to 79 new end-users. 6. Capacity Building. CREST continues to sit on a government behavioural science initiative that brings together 10 departments. In this role, we have been instrumental in developing 15 case studies that showcase the use of behavioural and social science in national security. We have been instrumental in fostering relationships between researchers and stakeholders, one example being the collaboration between Early Career Researchers and government department to carry out a piece of work looking at bias in emerging biometrics. Another being the network opportunities we created at BASS22. Keen to hear from new voices, we increased the number of researchers and practitioners who have written for our CSR magazine by 48, 18 of which are Early Career Researchers ranging from PhD students to senior research associates. 6. Work with funders and stakeholders to ensure all activities have positive impact on operational practice and policy. CREST continues to receive positive feedback from end-users on the service we provide - from resources through knowledge exchange events to training: For example: "After being introduced to CREST some 2 years ago, I've used it as a valuable resource in a number of ways, e.g. to increase my professional knowledge and understanding, to support my work role, providing information for team colleagues and in relation to the development and delivery of training. I've been extremely impressed by how so much information (from a wide range of behavioural / social sciences and other disciplines) is organised and presented in a very accessible, understandable and informative way". 7. Maintain effective processes for project management. We continue to use our online Work Operating System, which allows us to track a range of things such as data management, project progress, outputs, stewardship requests, and networking events. We consider matters relating to EDI when planning our activities and calls, and our research undergoes scrutiny by CREST's ethics committee ahead of commencement. |
Exploitation Route | To inform policy and practice. |
Sectors | Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy |
Description | This is the second year of CREST's 2020-2023 extension ('CREST3.0'), which builds on 6-years of successful impact and engagement and a focus on stakeholder requirements. Our focus on co-creation (in both core programmes and commissioned projects) has facilitated CREST's continued impact by ensuring our activity is both aligned with stakeholder needs and has operational utility. We have witnessed researcher-stakeholder relationships deepen and a shared understanding of the limits within which each operate. Not only has this benefited existing programmes of work, it has prompted requests for additional pieces of research to be completed by CREST researchers. The impact of our research is evidenced, in part, by our influence on the academic community. This year we saw a ~33% increase in the number of citations to our research. This upward trend continues year-on-year and we see no evidence of it plateauing. Our influence is helped by the standing of our researchers; many of whom are leaders in their field. An excellent example of this is Professor Vrij who was named this year as most prolific author in the field of deception detection with 201 articles and over 6,800 citations (Applied Cognitive Psychology). We were also delighted to hear that one of the academics whom we commissioned to carry out work on conspiracy theories in one of our early commissioning rounds recently secured a £2m ERC grant to run a research centre in this area. Professor Douglas' CREST-funded work continues to be amongst our most cited outputs, and we are pleased to have been able to offer the springboard for this burgeoning area of work, and for Douglas to emerge as a leader in this area. The expertise within CREST allows us to respond to rapid requests that are often time sensitive. This year was no different. We provided a time-critical evaluation of work in the area of age verification; we responded to a cross-government request for an assessment of research in emerging digital biometrics; and offered an initial scoping of research in the area of trauma, adversity and violent extremism. The importance of the latter was recognised by a request to carry out a longer, 18-month, piece of work, which resulted in multiple practitioner workshops, reports, and a special issues of CREST Security Review (CSR). Another highlight this year has been our work translating research into practice. In addition to running 12 events and meetings, we held two large events that helped inform practitioners on the latest work from behavioural and social science in security. We co-organised a day event on Communication, Engagement and Influence with policing where we shared knowledge on ideology, information elicitation, adaptability and error recovery through leading experts in the UK and the Netherlands. The event was attended by 100 in-person delegates and was live streamed to over 300. Feedback was positive with one officer stating the event directly helped them towards a positive outcome during a later incident. Our second large event was our International Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security Conference: BASS22. After a three year wait, we held a three day conference where we welcomed academics and practitioners (new and old) to network and hear the latest work in risk assessment, information elicitation, deterrence and disruption. We hosted over 180 delegates (a 15% increase on our last conference) from 8 different countries, and offered a varied programme of keynotes, presentations, lightening talks, poster presentations, and a Research to Practice Fellow led panel session. The conference also housed two Dstl funded panels on Social Bias in Computational Social Science, which allowed delegates to discuss emerging issues in this area. In agreeing to support the workshops at BASS, we were able to promote the work of an early career researcher who was leading on this piece of work. Our commitment to supporting ECRs did not end there. Through bursaries, we supported the attendance of 7 ECRs (4 more than we originally planned) and we offered a pre-conference ECR workshop on the topics of 'Impact' and 'Communicating your research'. This comprised a highly rated speed dating session, where researchers were able to pitch ideas to, and receive feedback from, practitioners. We held a poster competition, in which 4 ECRs were awarded a prize for their work and all were given exposure to practitioners. Delegate feedback from BASS was exemplary. Ratings showed that delegates would recommend BASS to a colleague (9.0/10.0). We also received glowing qualitative feedback from delegates whom commented: "Thank you so much - this is one of the best conferences I have ever been to. So much of the research has practical utility and you had a wide and wonderful array of speakers. I will definitely be recommending future events to other colleagues in the security field"; "As a PhD student it was such a great opportunity to present my work and get feedback from brilliant people. Also one of the best networking events I've attended. Great for development, but also to see how good everyone else's work is!" In response to requests from our community, CREST will hold another conference in 2023. BASS22 contributed to our efforts to build capacity, and through this event we were able to engage with 45 new academics working in security. In addition, we saw growth in our community with first-time entries from 48 academic and practitioners to our CSR magazine. |
Description | Advice for training for specialist interviewing |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Ben Lee - Joint Extremism Unit Independent Advisory Group on Counter Terrorism in Prison and Probation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | CREST response to the PREVENT review |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Invited to sit on advisory committee for Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalisation and Extremist Violence |
Geographic Reach | North America |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | PREVENT Review |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Response to HO request for expert advice on the pandemic's impact on online extremism |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Bath Impact Fund |
Amount | £3,538 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2022 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Computational Social Science - Social Data Bias. |
Amount | £148,725 (GBP) |
Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 05/2022 |
Description | Conspiracy_FX-consequences of conspiracy theories |
Amount | € 2,499,185 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 01/2026 |
Description | DiScriBe: Digital Security by Design Social Science Hub+ |
Amount | £3,570,745 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/V003666/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2020 |
End | 08/2024 |
Description | REPHRAIN: Research centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online |
Amount | £6,972,599 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V011189/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 10/2020 |
End | 05/2024 |
Description | SPRTE+ Digital Vulnerabilities Sandpit |
Amount | £37,453 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2021 |
End | 04/2022 |
Description | Understanding Effective Security Communications |
Amount | £252,542 (GBP) |
Organisation | Energus |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2022 |
End | 01/2024 |
Description | "Presentation at IIIRG conference. Information elicitation in an online chat. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "Presentation at IIIRG conference. Information elicitation in an online chat. CRESt researchers - A De La Fuente Vilar, L Hope, F Kontogianni on 2022-06-01. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://iiirg.org/iiirg-2022-winchester/ |
Description | "Technology impacts: smoke and mirrors." |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "Technology impacts: smoke and mirrors. Invited talk presented at Department of Culture, Media and Sport: T-EAM Network Launch Event, October 19, London, UK."CREST researcher D, Ellis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | #Research4Good podcast series highlighting the impact of research on Tackling Online Extremism. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Part of the new #Research4Good podcast (hosted by Dr David Ellis) series highlighting the impact of her research on Tackling Online Extremism. CREST PhD presenting; Olivia Brown on 01/09/22 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/research4good-podcast/ |
Description | 2 Roundtable events at the Home Office |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Organised by Sarah Marsden, CREST PI. Roundtable 1 - Nov 13 2020 Roundtable 2: Nov 23 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | 3 x Roundtable events: Transnational Extreme-Right Series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Roundtable 1: Transnational Extreme-Right Series. The History of extreme-right transnationalism. April 12 2021 Roundtable 2: Transnational Extreme-Right Series: Contemporary extreme-right transnationalism. April 26 2021 Roundtable 3: Transnational Extreme-Right Series: What's next for extreme-right transnationalism. May 10 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Advanced elicitation skills training |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation to stakeholders;Advanced elicitation skills training to government agency (20 people) Anna Leslie |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Article in; India education Diary. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article in; India education Diary. University Of Birmingham: Global Network Launches To Boost Global Security And Crime Fighters Gathering Evidence. https://indiaeducationdiary.in/university-of-birmingham-global-network-launches-to-boost-global-security-and-crime-fighters-gathering-evidence/ By Hope, Lorraine on 2022-09-26 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://indiaeducationdiary.in/university-of-birmingham-global-network-launches-to-boost-global-secu... |
Description | Automated social identity assessment (ASIA): International society of political psychology (ISPP) annual meeting, |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Automated social identity assessment (ASIA): International society of political psychology (ISPP) annual meeting, approx. 35 people. Both academic and no-academic audience (including Think Tanks) by Kordoni on 2022-07-01 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | BASS22 - CREST conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "BASS22; CREST held its second international conference on Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security in July 2022. The three day conference focused on three themes Risk and risk management, Eliciting and assessing information, Deterrence and disruption, with over 40 presentations from a wide range of presenters across academia. The event also included two lighting talk sessions and a poster session, with two panels on Social Bias in Computational Social Science and a R2PF led panel session. CREST received excellent feedback from delegates, with many attending their first conference since COVID. Attendees noted they were delighted to be able to meet up again face to face and meet old, and create new connections. Building on this success, CREST will be running BASS23 in July 2023. CREST funded presentations included Al Attar, L Brace, O Brown, J Busher, P Gill, B Rottweiller- on Risk & Risk Management. L Hope, F Kontogianni, - on elictating & assessing information. A De La Fuente Vilar, A Vrij, C Winters- on deterrence & disruption. Lightning talks; J Lewis, S Marsden, J Hewitt, S Lui, N Salmon, D Mcllhatton, C Rice, Posters: L Hillner, A Raducu, " from 19-21/07/2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | BASS22 ECR workshopt |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | ECR2022 event - As part of BASS22, CREST also ran a pre-conference workshop for Early Career Researchers on the topics of 'Impact' and 'Communicating your research'. This included a very popular speed dating session where researchers were able to pitch ideas to, and receive feedback from practitioners. This event was open to all BASS ECR researchers. 18th July 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Bath-funded workshop - Extreme Right Wing. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Bath-funded workshop - Extreme Right Wing. Presented to 23 CREST stakeholders. CREST PI, A Joinson. 15th March 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Behavioral Consistency in the Digital Age |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Shaw, H. (2022). Behavioral Consistency in the Digital Age. Presented as part of the Symposium " Analyzing Digital Human Behavior: The Shape of Psychology to Come" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's Annual Convention (SPSP), San Francisco, CA, USA on 2022-02-16 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Behavioural and social scientists in national security network event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | CREST hosted - Paul Taylor, Matthew Francis and Paul Grasby. With three external speakers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Briefing - Ben Lee. Coronavirus and online extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Briefing - Ben Lee (2020). Coronavirus and online extremism (internal governmental policymakers) December 1 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | CCSITP Overview online presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CCSITP Overview online presentation (Critical Communication Skills in Territorial Policing) Presented by Simon Wells. CREST Research to Practice Fellow. May 2021. 300 attendees online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | CREST Article: A Short Introduction To The Involuntary Celibate Sub-Culture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CREST blog, written by Dr Lewys Brace |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/a-short-introduction-to-the-involuntary-celibate-sub-culture/ |
Description | CREST Article: Proof Of Life Or Death? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CREST blog written by Matthew Fields, based on their research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/proof-of-life-or-death/ |
Description | CREST Article:Only Playing: Extreme-Right Gamification |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Blog written by Ben Lee, based on their research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/only-playing-extreme-right-gamification/ |
Description | CREST Security Review: Risk - Issue 11 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Included 12 articles from a variety of researchers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://crestresearch.ac.uk/magazine/risk/ |
Description | CREST presentation; Communication and resilience training |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Support to Health workers within Government dealing with resistance to treatment and rehabilitation through presentations and exercises aimed at using methods developed within CREST and by CREST affiliated academics. 14 attendees. Simon Wells, CREST Research to Practice Fellow. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | CT Policing event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CT Policing event - Nov 18th 2021. 100 delegates attened in person and 300 online. CREST presenters; CREST R2PF S Wells, & B Lee, P Taylor. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Capturing Memory using the Timelines Technique |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Capturing Memory using the Timelines Technique. Training session on Memory and Timeline Technique for training programme organised by IDDD, the National Association of Public Defenders of Brazil, and the National School of Public Defenders of Brazil. MAIN OUTCOME; International impact - training on 2021-05-01. CREST PI, L Hope. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Developing a Time-Critical Questioning framework in a naturalistic environment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented at IIIRG Conference (Developing a Time-Critical Questioning framework in a naturalistic environment) on 2022-07-01 by Kontogianni (CREST PhD) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Developing novel methods while exposing challenges for psychological science |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Symposium presented at British Psychology Society - Annual Cyberpsychology Section Conference, July 6-7, Online, UK Davidson, B., Ellis, D. A., Shaw, H. and Stuart, A. (2021). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Elicitation of requirements workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Elicitation of requirements workshop by Bouhana, N on 2021-10-31 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Elicitation skills training |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation to stakeholders; Elicitation skills training to. government agency Anna Leslie |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Eliciting Information Framework |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentations to stakeholders: Eliciting Information Framework to UK government department Anna Leslie |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Eliciting Information Framework to Police |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentations to stakeholders: Eliciting Information Framework to Police Anna Leslie |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Eliciting Information Framework to US government department |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentations to stakeholders:Eliciting Information Framework to US government department Anna Leslie |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Eliciting Information: Working Effectively with Memory |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Eliciting Information: Working Effectively with Memory. MAIN OUTCOME;International impact - training. Audience = Lawyers & advocacy personnel at Fair Trials (UK, Europe, New York) on 2021-12-01. CREST PI, L Hope. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Engagement Event with core stakeholder team. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Engagement Event with core stakeholder team. 9th Feb 2022. CREST by Hope, L |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Examining Consistency in Digital Behaviours. Heather Shaw |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CREST presentation; ACE-CSR : Examining Consistency in Digital Behaviours Heather Shaw. CREST, SRA 25 March 2021. ' 185 people invited to the Teams meeting. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Examining the relationship between COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs and Anti-Government Violence |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Society for Terrorism Research - "Examining the relationship between COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs and Anti-Government Violence.CREST presenter: B, Rottweiler and P Gill on 2022-08-08 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Exploring right-wing extremism in online spaces: Can we use big data to predict offline action |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Association for Psychological Science, Virtual Convention, May 2021. Brown, O., Joinson, A. N., Smith, L. G. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Extreme-Right gamification |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | VOX-pol; artile - ONLY PLAYING: EXTREME-RIGHT GAMIFICATION on 2021-11-01. CREST researcher B Lee. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.voxpol.eu/only-playing-extreme-right-gamification/ |
Description | Guest lecture - Ben Lee. National Action, Atomwaffen Division, and Contemporary Right-Wing Terror(ism). |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Guest lecture - Ben Lee (2020). National Action, Atomwaffen Division, and Contemporary Right-Wing Terror(ism). Bournemouth University. December 7 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Guest lecture . Extremist trajectories: Ideology, narrative identity and the pursuit of human goods. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Guest lecture - Sarah Marsden (2020). Extremist trajectories: Ideology, narrative identity and the pursuit of human goods. Bournemouth University. December 14 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Guest presentation - Ben Lee. Extremism and Extremist Groups - their potential threat in an Irish Context - Unwrapping a layer at a time. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Guest presentation - Ben Lee. Extremism and Extremist Groups - their potential threat in an Irish Context - Unwrapping a layer at a time. April 28 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Guest presentation - Ben Lee. International Policy Responses to Violent White Supremacy: A Virtual Roundtable. Institute for Strategic Dialogue |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Guest presentation - Ben Lee (2020). International Policy Responses to Violent White Supremacy: A Virtual Roundtable. Institute for Strategic Dialogue. October 15 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Home Office Counter-terrorism communication forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Home Office Counter-terrorism communication forum: Insights from the STARS project by Rice, C on 2022-01-01 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | ITV West Country. Topic -Incel culture. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Special Report: ITV West Country. Topic -Incel culture. by Brace, L on 2022-01-18 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-01-18/what-is-incel-culture-and-why-is-it-growing-around-t... |
Description | Ideology, Scenes, and Styles: Navigating the Extreme-Right Milieu |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation DfE (B, Lee): Ideology, Scenes, and Styles: Navigating the Extreme-Right Milieu on 2022-04-18. CREST researcher B Lee. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Incel plymouth incident. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Radio: LBC Drive time with Eddie Mair. Topic; Incel plymouth incident. by Brace, L on 2021-08-13 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Incels. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Podcast: Andrew Piece show. The Daily Mail. Topic: Incels by Brace, L on 2021-08-19 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Incels. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Radio: BBC Radio 5 live. Topic; Incels. by Brace, L on 2021-08-30 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000z6vs |
Description | Innovation Week. Topic; horizon scanning |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | On 10th June CREST presenters, Research to Practice Fellows - A Leslie, S Wells, and CREST Executive Director M Francis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Innovation Week: Elicitating information. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CREST presenters, Research to Practice Fellows - A Leslie, S Wells, and CREST Executive Director M Francis. Presented. Elicitation framework. On 9th June. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Input discussion: City of London Police. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Input discussion: City of London Police.CREST presenter: L Brace. On 2022-07-21 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Input discussion: Thames Valley Police. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Input discussion: Thames Valley Police. CREST presenter: L Brace. On 2022-07-05 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Issues up close: trauma and extreme violence |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Soundcloud; Issues up close: trauma and extreme violence on 2022-04-22. CREST PI, S Marsden, J Lewis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/issues-up-close-trauma-and-extreme-violence |
Description | Keynote |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote at Society for Terrorism Research Conference. Title of talk: The Future of Terrorism Research: Think C.R.E.S.T.. September 2022. ~120 registered for conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Keynote: South East Asia Regional Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote: South East Asia Regional Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. MAIN OUTCOME; Highlights CREST research in South East Asia. Mixed audience of research and practitioners; goal of raising visibility in SEA region on 01/06/21. CREST PI, L Hope. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Keynote: South East Asia Regional Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Mixed audience of research and practitioners; goal of raising visibility in SEA region. Highlights CREST research in South East Asia |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Lecture - ACE workshop: Examining consistency in digital behaviours. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lecture - ACE workshop: Examining consistency in digital behaviours. CREST researcher H, Shaw. 25th March 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Lecture - Lunch and Learn. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lecture - Lunch and Learn. Dec 2021. CREST PI; S Conchie, presented on digital footprint. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Memory, Evidence & the Timeline Technique. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Memory, Evidence & the Timeline Technique. Training session on Memory and Timeline Technique for programme organised by IDDD, the National Association of Public Defenders of Brazil, and the National School of Public Defenders of Brazil. Audience = Brazilian Judges. MAIN OUTCOME;International impact - training on 2021-11-01. CREST PI, L Hope. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | NCA Training - 1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Anna Leslie and Simon Wells delivered training to NCA practitioners in April. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | NCA Training - 2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Anna Leslie and Simon Wells delivered training in May to the NCA. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Newly Emerging Threats within Violent Extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 5RD CVE Meeting - "Newly Emerging Threats within Violent Extremism", .CREST presenter: B, Rottweiler on 2022-06-22 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Newspaper article : Devon live. Plymouth shooting: Incel culture and its staggering sense of entitlement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | By Brace, L on 29/08/21 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/plymouth-shooting-incel-culture-staggering-5828041 |
Description | Newspaper: Plymouth Herald.Plymouth shooting: Families meet with Security Minister over online incel culture fears. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | By Brace, L on 16/05/22 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-shooting-families-meet-security-7088898 |
Description | Newspaper: The Mirror. Sick 'women-hating' incel sites draw record audience one year from Plymouth shooting. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | By Brace, L on 13/08/22 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sick-women-hating-incel-sites-27734139 |
Description | Predicting offline (right wing) action from digital data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | STAR week 2021, Home Office. CREST presenter Olivia Brown (PhD) Predicting offline (right wing) action from digital data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Qualitative analysis for sensitive research - how to protect against researcher vulnerabilities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Olivia Brown wrote a blog called, 'Qualitative analysis for sensitive research - how to protect against researcher vulnerabilities' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/centre-for-qualitative-research/2021/05/06/qualitative-analysis-for-sensiti... |
Description | RICU (HO) market segmentation discussion |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Matthew Francis & Paul Grasby organised. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Research4Good podcast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | University of Bath; Research4Good podcast; https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/research4good-podcast/ on 22/08/22. CREST PhD O, Brown. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/research4good-podcast/ |
Description | Resilience working group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentations to stakeholders: Resilience working group. Anna Leslie |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Right-Wing Extremism Online: Can We Use Digital Data To Measure Risk? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Right-Wing Extremism Online: Can We Use Digital Data To Measure Risk? Workshop with stakeholders. Presenter CREST PhD O, Brown on 2022-03-01 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Risk factors to violent extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented at NCITE on risk factors to violent extremism on 2022-08-01. CREST PI, P Gill. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Roundtable: National Security Innovation Champion |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Roundtable (B, Lee): National Security Innovation Champion on 2022-04-05 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Siege culture. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | UK AVERT Symposium. Siege culture. CREST presenter B Lee on 2021-11-03 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Social Bias in Computational Social Science |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | "2 x Social Bias workshops; Social Bias in Computational Social Science. Workshop 1 - Addressing bias in computational social science: What can we learn from social science theory? Chair: Sophie Nightingale. Workshop 2 - Addressing bias in computational social science: Explanation rather than prediction? Chair: Sophie Nightingale. " On 2022-04-06 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Strong Cities Network webinar "Getting Ready for Trouble? The Role of Cities in Responding to Anti-Minority Protest". |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Strong Cities Network webinar "Getting Ready for Trouble? The Role of Cities in Responding to Anti-Minority Protest". J Busher on panel on 01/03/22 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://strongcitiesnetwork.org/en/getting-ready-for-trouble-the-role-of-cities-in-responding-to-ant... |
Description | Subcultural constraints |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Subcultural constraints workshop by Marsden on 2022-04-01 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Terrorism and Political Violence Podcast on research on trauma |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interviewed by The Terrorism and Political Violence Podcast on their research on trauma on 2022-04-01. CREST PhD J Lewis, CREST PI - S Marsden. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/0NMqE2CNykgAqCPB1agGSf?si=00edcafc0d0f46ff&nd=1 |
Description | Terrorism and the Mind, Talking to Terrorists |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interviewed as part of a BBC Radio 4 Podcast: Terrorism and the Mind, Talking to Terrorists on 2022-02-01 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001421m |
Description | The escalation and inhibition of violence during waves of far-right or anti-minority protests |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | University of Oslo; The escalation and inhibition of violence during waves of far-right or anti-minority protests; https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/news-and-events/right-now/2022/the-escalation-and-inhibition-of-violence-during-w.html by Busher J on 2022-02-01 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/news-and-events/right-now/2022/the-escalation-and-inhibition-of-... |
Description | The other right wing terrorism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation (B, Lee): University of Waikato/New Zealand Department for Internal Affairs. The other right wing terrorism on 2022-03-16 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | The relationship between conspiracy beliefs and violent extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CREST / stakeholder workshop - Conspiracy Theories and Extremism Workshop. "The relationship between conspiracy beliefs and violent extremism", P Gill and B Rottweiler presented on 2022-04-05 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Training: Police CT negotiation course RW input |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Training (B, Lee): Police CT negotiation course RW input (08/11/2021 & 11/04/2022 & 22/09/2022) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Trauma & Violent Extremism Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 1. Initiated an international, multidisciplinary working group of practitioners, policymakers and researchers who work on trauma and violent extremism. Since this session we've formalised the network and run a series of online events bringing together an international audience to discuss research and share good practice. This has led to new funding applications and research collaborations. 2. Provided the springboard for the next phase of the research. We have since engaged in a larger piece of work via CREST which is being supported by the working group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Trauma and violent extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation DfE (Lewis & Marsden): Trauma and violent extremism by Sarah Marsden on 2022-05-12 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Trauma and violent extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation London Prevent Network (Lewis & Marsden): Trauma and violent extremism by Marsden, Sarah on 2022-07-15 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Trauma, Adversity & Violent Extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Stakeholder workshop on Trauma, Adversity & Violent Extremism by Marsden, Sarah on 2022-03-07 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | University of Bath research shows how to improve emergency service response to terrorist incident |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Olivia Brown wrote a blog called 'University of Bath research shows how to improve emergency service response to terrorist incident' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://scienmag.com/university-of-bath-research-shows-how-to-improve-emergency-service-response-to-... |
Description | Working Group for Collaboratory Against Hate as an advisory role |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CREST PI Sarah Marsden attended; Working Group for Collaboratory Against Hate as an advisory role. Approx 20 people who were a mix of academics, practitioners and NGOs. It ran from April-September 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop - Eliciting sensitive information. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop - Eliciting sensitive information. Seminar with CREST stakeholders. On 98/08/22 by Burns C |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop 1: Trauma, Adversity and Violent Extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop 1: Michael Niconchuk, Beyond Conflict by Sarah marsden on 2021-11-11 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Workshop 1; Universities. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Workshop 1; Universities. 3rd August 2022 24 delegates from 12 universities CREST researcher D McIlhatton . |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop 2: Trauma, Adversity and Violent Extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop 2: Dr Daniel Koehler, German Institute of Radicalisation and Deradicalisation Studies by Marsden, Sarah on 2022-01-12 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop 2; Resilience |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop 2; Resilience 15th September 2022 14 delegates from across government and emergency services . CREST researcher D McIlhatton . |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop 3: Trauma, Adversity and Violent Extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop 3: Dr Heidi Ellis, Harvard Medical School by Marsden, Sarah on 2022-05-05 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop 3; Places of Worship |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Workshop 3; Workshop - Places of Worship 21th June 2022 22 delegates from faith based institutions across London. CREST researcher D McIlhatton . |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop 4: Trauma, Adversity and Violent Extremism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Marsden, Sarah on 2022-06-22 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop 4; CT Policing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop 4; Workshop - CT Policing 30th June 2022 7 delegates from across CTP and HO. CREST researcher D McIlhatton . |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Workshop to present findings and discuss next steps |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop to present findings and discuss next steps - Presented to data scientists. 10 attendees. 28th Feb 2022 CREST PI; A Joinson. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |