Become a Fellow
If you would like to join CARR as a Senior Fellow or Policy and Practitioner Fellow, please contact William Allchorn (socialmedia@radicalrightanalysis.com).
If you would like to join CARR as a Doctoral Fellow, please contact Mike Cole (michael.cole@ut.ee). Please note that you are eligible to become a Doctoral Fellow only if you have at least a year until the submission of your dissertation.
All applicants for fellowships must send a CV, a 1,500 Word OP-Ed Style writing sample on a topic of the radical right, and a one-page cover letter. Applications are considered bi-annually and due the last day of the month in June and December. Please read the pre-requisites for each fellowship position (below) before applying.
Senior Fellows
Our Senior Fellows are academics at universities holding a PhD and higher.
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Dr Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero Lecturer in English and German Philologies, University of Granada.Specialist Research Areas: Radical Right Discourse, Online Networks, Cyberislamophobia, Linguistics -
Professor Dominic Alessio Professor of History, Richmond, The American International University in London.Specialist Research Areas: History, Proto-Fascism, Ideology, Religion, Popular Culture
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Dr William Allchorn Associate Director, CARR. Associate Fellow, GNET Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leeds.Specialist Research Areas: UK Radical Right, Anti-Islam Protest Movements, Cumulative Extremism, Policy Responses, Radical Right Social Movements
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Professor Hans-Georg Betz Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Zurich.Specialist Research Areas: Islamophobia, Populism, Nativism, Globalisation, Right-Wing Populism
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Dr Valerio Alfonso Bruno Researcher, University of Fribourg.Specialist Research Areas: Populism, Technocracy, European Politics, Liberal Internationalism, Political Science
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Dr Jean-Yves Camus Director, Observatoire des radicalités politiques.Specialist Research Areas: Movements, Neo-Nazism, Neo-Fascism, Political Violence, Terrorism
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Dr Miranda Christou Associate Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Cyprus.Specialist Research Areas: Radicalisation, Feminism, Youth, Anti-Gender Campaigns
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Dr Roland Clark Senior Lecturer in History, University of Liverpool.Specialist Research Areas: Fascism, Anti-Semitism, Romania, Anti-Communist Resistance, Social Movement Activism
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Dr Julia R. DeCook Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago. Expert/Fellow, Institute for Research on Male Supremacism.Specialist Research Areas: Race and Gender, Masculinity, Online Networks, Communication, Science and Technology Studies
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Dr James F. Downes Lecturer in Comparative Politics/ Head (Chair) of Undergraduate Admissions The Chinese University of Hong Kong Senior Fellow & Head of the Populism Research Unit (CARR)Specialist Research Areas: Right-Wing Party Competition, Immigration, Populist Radical Right, Global Populism
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Dr Chelsea Ebin Assistant Professor of Politics, Centre College, Danville, KY Expert/Fellow at Institute for Research on Male SupremacismSpecialist Research Areas: The Christian Right, Religion and politics, Public law, Gender, Male supremacism
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Dr Maureen Eger Associate Professor of Sociology, Umeå University.Specialist Research Areas: Radical Right Parties, Radical Right Ideology, Radical Right Voting, Immigration, Neo-Nationalism
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Dr Valery Engel President of the European Centre for Democracy Development in Latvia. Chairman of the Expert Board of the European International Tolerance Centre in Riga.Specialist Research Areas: Russian Jewry, European Xenophobia, Hate Crime, The Holocaust, Anti-Semitism
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Professor Matthew Feldman Director, CARR. Visiting Professor, Richmond, The American University in London. Professorial Fellow, University of York. Member, Expert Witness Institute.Specialist Research Areas: Fascist ideology and practice since 1918, the Holocaust and Holocaust denial, neo-Nazi and ‘lone wolf’ terrorism, radical right movements and ideologues
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Dr Bernhard Forchtner Associate Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leicester.Specialist Research Areas: Radical Right and Environmental Issues, Ideology, German Speaking World, Movements
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Dr Tobias Hof Privatdozent for Modern and Contemporary History, History Department, Ludwig Maximilians University, München. Research Collaborator, UNC Chapel Hill.Specialist Research Areas: Terrorism, Fascism, Violence, Genocide, Cultural Representation
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Dr Paul Jackson Senior Lecturer in History, University of Northampton.Specialist Research Areas: Neo-Nazis, Anti-Fascism, History, Ideology, Terrorism
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Dr Justyna Kajta Post-doc at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and HumanitiesSpecialist Research Areas: Radical Nationalism, Poland, Social Movements, Biographical Research, Discourse, Pathways to Radicalism, Radical Right Populism
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Professor Aristotle Kallis Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Keele UniversitySpecialist Research Areas: Fascist Ideology And Practice since 1918; The Holocaust; Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism; Radical Right Movements and Ideologues; Mass Violence And Genocide
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Dr Sara Kamali Author; holistic justice activist; and scholar of systemic inequities, White nationalism, and militant IslamismSpecialist Research Areas: Domestic Terrorism, Counterterrorism, White Nationalism, American History
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Dr Ariel Koch Research Fellow, The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University, IsraelSpecialist Research Areas: Salafi-Jihadism, Cumulative Extremism, Violent Extremism, Terrorism, Antisemitism and Islamophobia
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Dr Katherine Kondor Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX)Specialist Research Areas: Street Movements, Recruitment, Radicalisation, Pathways, Hungary
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Jason Luger Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Northumbria UniversitySpecialist Research Areas: Authoritarian state-society relations, The production of authoritarian and far-right urban space (offline /online), The everyday geographies of the far-right; Masculinity and the far-right
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Dr Ico Maly Associate professor at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). Editor-in-chief of Diggit Magazine.Specialist Research Areas: Radical Right and Digital Media, Metapolitics, Far Right Ideology, Identitarianism, Digital Culture Studies
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Dr Haley McEwen Researcher, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). Associate Editor, International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies.Specialist Research Areas: Anti-Gender Movement, Coloniality, Critical Diversity Studies, South Africa
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Susi Meret Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, Denmark.Specialist Research Areas: Populism; Populist Radical Right-wing Parties and Movements in Denmark and in Scandinavia; Islamophobia; Political Extremisms; Radical Right Ideology and Voters; the Radical Right and Gender
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Dr. Bàrbara Molas Head of Publishing, CARR.Specialist Research Areas: Far-Right Thought, Christian Nationalism, Transnational History
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Dr Mario Peucker Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (ISILC), Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.Specialist Research Areas: Australia, Street Movements, Online Networks, Local Responses, Interactive Radicalisation
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Mark Potok Freelance writer, speaker, consultant, expert on right-wing extremism.Specialist Research Areas: American Radical Right, Ku Klux Klan, White Nationalism, Neo Nazism, Men's Right Movement
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Dr Shannon E. Reid Associate Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Commentator and analyst of youth and young adult involvement in alt-right/ far right groups.Specialist Research Areas: Youth gang involvement, including alt-right/ far right gangs; youth violence and criminality associated with far-right/ alt-right groups; radical right online communication and organization
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Professor Dan Stone Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute Royal Holloway, University of LondonSpecialist Research Areas: The Holocaust, Genocide Studies, Race, Fascist Ideology, Eugenics
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Dr Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University.Specialist Research Areas: Parties, Discourse, Populism, Counter-Narratives, Communication Strategies
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Chris Webb Founder, Holocaust Historical Society. Member, T4 Association.Specialist Research Areas: The Holocaust, Polish Jewry, Nazi Germany, Anti-Semitism, Aktion Reinhardt
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Professor Leonard Weinberg Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada. Senior Editor of the journal Democracy and Security.Specialist Research Areas: Right Wing Violence, Neo-Fascism, Conspiracy Theories
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Dr Mette Wiggen Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.Specialist Research Areas: Norway, Scandinavia, Populism, Racism, Welfare Chauvanism
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Professor Ruth Wodak Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University and University of Vienna.Specialist Research Areas: Discourse and Media Analysis, Far-Right Populism, Gender, Antisemitism and Islamophobia
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Dr Andreas Önnerfors Professor in Intellectual History, University of Erfurt, GermanySpecialist Research Areas: Intellectual History, Radicalisation Studies, Germany, European New Right Movements, Conspiracy Theories
Doctoral Fellows
Our Doctoral Fellows are those currently enrolled in a PhD programme.
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Nicolas Bichay Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University.Specialist Research Areas: Political Science, Parties, Elections, Political Economy, Europe
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Vinícius Bivar Doctoral candidate in Department of History, Freie Universität Berlin.Specialist Research Areas: Transnational Radical Right in Central Europe and Latin America, Diaspora and Migration, Radical Right Ideologies
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Beatriz Buarque PhD Candidate at the University of ManchesterSpecialist Research Areas: conspiracy theories; alt-right multitude; legitimation through authority and visibility; critical discourse analysis; politics of truth
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Michael Cole Head of Doctoral Fellows, CARR. PhD Candidate at the University of Tartu.Specialist Research Areas: Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Discourse Analysis, Mainstreaming
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Meghan Conroy PhD Candidate at Loughborough University's Online Civic Culture CentreSpecialist Research Areas: Internet subcultures, influencer culture, reactionary narratives on legacy and social media, and the relationship between online discourse and offline mobilization
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Dr. Andreas Dafnos Research Associate (PostDoc) in Comparative Digital Dynamics of Riots and Multi-Method Integration at the Institute of Political Science, Bundeswehr University MunichSpecialist Research Areas: Social Movement Theory; Political Extremism and Radicalisation; Social Media Analytics; Far-Right Politics
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Augusta Dell’Omo Head of Media, CARR. Doctoral candidate in Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.Specialist Research Areas: White Nationalism, US Foreign Policy, Terrorism, Christian Identity Extremists, Reagan Coalition
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Callum Downes Doctoral candidate in Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter.Specialist Research Areas: British Radical Right, Epistemic Injustice, Radical Right Populism, Street Movements
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Anna Duensing PhD candidate in the joint program in History and African American Studies at Yale University.Specialist Research Areas: United States; Germany; Fascism; Neo-Nazism; the Ku Klux Klan
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Maik Fielitz Researcher at the Jena Institute for Democracy and Civil Society Doctoral Candidate in Department of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt.Specialist Research Areas: Political Science, Greece, Germany, Violence and Terrorism, Digital Cultures
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Jaclyn Fox Doctoral candidate in School of International Service, American University.Specialist Research Areas: Online Far Right Networks, Far Right Violence, International Relations, US Militia Movements, Psychology
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Lynda Gilby PhD Researcher in Global Health and Development at Tampere University, Finland.Specialist Research Areas: Populist Challenges to Global Health Governance, Right Wing Populism
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Nino Gozalishvili PhD candidate at Central European University (CEU)Specialist Research Areas: National-populism, post-communist space, Georgia, contemporary history, right-wing nationalism
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Monika Huebscher PhD Candidate at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies, Haifa University.Specialist Research Areas: Germany, Political Parties, Social Media, Antisemitism, Hate speech, Disinformation
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Natalie James Doctoral candidate in School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.Specialist Research Areas: Prevent, UK Counterterrorism, Threat Construction, Intersectionality
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Nicholas James Doctoral student in Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.Specialist Research Areas: Nationalism, Comparative Politics, European National Identity, Political Violence, Education and Language
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Greta Jasser Doctoral candidate at Institute for Political Science and Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University of Lüneburg.Specialist Research Areas: Political Science, Online Networks, Male Supremacy, Alt-Tech, Social Movements
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Specialist Research Areas: Violent Nationalism, Ethnonationalism, Separatism, Radicalisation, Political Violence
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Daniel Jones Collections Officer, Searchlight Archive, University of Northampton. Doctoral candidate in Department of History, University of Northampton.Specialist Research Areas: British, Archives, History, Movements, Organisations
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Ashton Kingdon PhD candidate in Web Science at the University of Southampton.Specialist Research Areas: Violent Extremism, Terrorism, Technology, Radicalisation, Weaponisation of History
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Maximilian Kreter Doctoral candidate at Hannah Arendt Institute Totalitarianism Studies, TU Dresden.Specialist Research Areas: Music, Subcultures, Parties, Political Violence, Germany
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Yannick Lengkeek PhD Candidate at the University of St AndrewsSpecialist Research Areas: Ludic practices and the radical right; dictatorships in Southern Europe; global fascism; microhistorical approaches to fascism and dictatorships
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Balsa Lubarda Doctoral candidate in Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University.Specialist Research Areas: Sociology, Ethnography, Environmental/Far-Right Ecologism, Visegrad 4, The Balkans
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Ashley Mattheis Doctoral candidate in Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Specialist Research Areas: United States, Online Extremist Cultures, Gendered Ideology, Propaganda and Visual Culture, Cultural and Media Studies
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Alexander Reid Ross Doctoral candidate in Department of Geography, Portland State University.Specialist Research Areas: Political Ecology, Political Resilience, Fascism, Disinformation Campaigns
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Sophie Schmalenberger Doctoral Candidate at School of Culture and Society (Department of Global Studies), Aarhus University.Specialist Research Areas: Germany, Populism, Cultural Studies, Memory, Affect
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Alessio Scopelliti Doctoral candidate in School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol.Specialist Research Areas: Cleavages, Populism, Parties, Western European Politics, Content Analysis
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Catherine Tebaldi PhD Candidate at the University of Massachusetts and a member of the Sociolinguistics Lab at University College LondonSpecialist Research Areas: Gender, Language, Nationalism, Education in the US/France, Linguistic Anthropology
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Jessica Valisa PhD. Candidate at the University of Otago (NZ)Specialist Research Areas: Far-right thought; the influence of Information Technology on political discourse; contemporary Russian conservatism
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Antonia Vaughan PhD Candidate at the University of BathSpecialist Research Areas: Ethics, US far right online movements, qualitative analysis, social network analysis
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Sabine Volk Doctoral candidate at the Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków.Specialist Research Areas: Political Science, Ethnography, Discourse, Street Movements, (East) Germany
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Andrew Woods Doctoral candidate at Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario.Specialist Research Areas: United States, Brazil, Conspiracy Theories, Intellectual History, The New Right
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Michael Zeller Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, Central European University.Specialist Research Areas: Social Movements, Far Right Mobilisation, Demonstration Politics, Process Tracing, Civil Society, Post-Soviet Politics
Policy & Practitioner Fellows
Our Policy and Practitioner Fellows are policy makers, practitioners, journalists, or researchers at think tanks or non-profits.
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Sean Arbuthnot Local Prevent Co-ordinator & Training Consultant.Specialist Research Areas: UK Prevent Duty, Radicalisation, Extremism, CVE, Counterterrorism
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Michael Colborne Journalist (Freelance).Specialist Research Areas: Movements, Extremism, Online Radicalisation, Transnational Radical Right Extremism
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Jacob Davey Senior Research Manager, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).Specialist Research Areas: Online Analysis of Extremist Networks
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Dr Agata Kałabunowska Senior Analyst at the Institute for Western AffairsSpecialist Research Areas: Right-wing extremism in Germany, Right wing-extremism in Central Europe, Islamophobia, Immigration issues
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Specialist Research Areas: Violent Extremism and Radicalization, Far-Right and Islamist Terrorism, Counterinsurgency and Russia
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Dr Chamila Liyanage Researcher/Content Developer, Radical-R: Radicalisation Research.Specialist Research Areas: Deep Web, Virtual Activism, Narratives, Conspiracy Theories, Fascist Mysticism
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Dr Craig McCann Director, S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M. Universal Ltd.Specialist Research Areas: UK, State Responses to Terrorism, Intervention Programmes
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Simon Purdue Director of the Domestic Terrorism Threat Monitor at MEMRI (The Middle Eastern Media Research Institute)Specialist Research Areas: Gender, Global History, Violent Extreme-Right, Radicalisation, Propaganda
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Jared Shurin Head of Strategy, M&C Saatchi World ServicesSpecialist Research Areas: Communications interventions; media, advertising, and adtech; extremist persuasion and influence; disinformation; counter- and alternative narratives
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Dr Alan Waring Adjunct Professor, Centre for Risk and Decision Sciences (CERIDES), European University Cyprus.Specialist Research Areas: Ideology and Practice, Authoritarianism, Security Issues, Risk Analysis, Anti-Iranianism
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Dr Jessica White Research Fellow, Terrorism and Conflict Group, Royal United Services Institute.Specialist Research Areas: CT Frameworks; Transferability; Transnational Links; Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Programme Design, Implementation, and Evaluation; Gender Role Dynamics
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Kesa White Research Associate, Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) Academic Writer, Global Network on Extremism and Technology Associate Board Member, Anti-Defamation LeagueSpecialist Research Areas: Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism and ‘lone wolf’ terrorism; radical right movements and ideologies; radical right online methods of communication
