Village Hopping Round the #Cotswolds 🌻🌼🌺🌼🌻🌺♥️♥️

I'm thrilled to announce that next week Lewys Brace and I will officially release our VOX-Pol Report 'AI Extremism' - Stay tuned for more info about this 82-pages book(let)! Thanks already to Maura Conway Stuart Macdonald and the outstanding editorial team.

I have a new article out today in Deviant Behavior with Prof. Petter Gottschalk - Characteristics of Crime Convenience: The Case of Corporate Offenders - available open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Could AI destabilise society by undermining democracy? Matt Ryan's research at @UniSouthampton shows how AI tools can actually help strengthen democracy by making our political conversation more inclusive buff.ly/3xk3mXO

The development of AI systems depends on hundreds of millions of data workers. Many of them are situated or displaced from the global majority, and are generally kept in the dark on how the data they produce will be used, writes Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social #AI #Syria
untoldmag.org/i-hope-this-is…

The great feeling of getting your paper accepted never gets old: the very first piece with my colleagues from DAMAR - Research Institute got accepted. More to come and see you soon in Journal of Political Ideologies. :)

Looking forward to presenting my work-in-progress chapter at the #RethinkingWar conference on Friday and catching some really cool panels and papers Fri-Sat! For the link to register, full schedule, and other information, visit: rethinkingwar.com

Monday's sentence of Isle of Wight teen for terrorism offences is sadly a new norm-fuelled by social isolation & accessibility of content online
Thanks Lizzie Dearden for covering my and Hannah Rose's dataset & analysis of our Childhood Innocence Project
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

I've spoken to Muslim students forced to pray in corridors, in cupboards, on school fields in the rain.

I've spoken to Muslims forced to leave their jobs because they weren't allowed to pray.

The Michaela School incident is just one tiny glimpse of societal-wide Islamophobia.

Our Executive Director Mariel's article for the P.R.A. is the newest episode on the Inform Your Resistance podcast! As tradwife influencers continue to gain popularity on TikTok, it's important to understand why some young girls are so attracted to the movement:

Thank you Lizzie Dearden for citing and allowing me to discuss my recent research with Hannah Rose on teenagers convicted of terrorism offences in the UK. Excited to see this in tomorrow’s Telegraph

New article on our #DVA / domestic violence perpetrator programmes out now, authors Orlanda Dr Jade Levell Terri Cole and I: threequayspublishing.com/product/explor… BU Seldom Heard Voices Edwin van Teijlingen HSS at BU Research @ Bournemouth University #BUProud

I am co-convening a workshop
at MANCEPT on 'Re-thinking Civil Disobedience' with Derek Edyvane and Enes Kulenovic. Details and call for abstracts in the link:

ccpt.leeds.ac.uk/re-thinking-ci…

📢News from our community!

Dr Elizabeth Pearson's 'Extreme Britain: Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation' has recently been published by Hurst Publishers! It explores the relationship between gendered culture & political radicalism in a polarised Britain. hurstpublishers.com/book/extreme-b…

Looking toward future research, publication or study? Or would you just like a chat with fellow social scientists? Special guest Prof Jon Garland
April 17 2PM British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network British Criminology Dr Leah Burch (she/her)
Researcher Workshop: Discussion, ideas, directions. - buytickets.at/bschatecrimene…

Please do come along for this discussion of my new book Extreme Britain & the role gender plays in extremism. I'm joined by a fantastic group of colleagues - David Duriesmith Lizzie Dearden Rashad Ali & Akil N Awan Russell Square, 1 May!

It’s official, Dr. Daymon in the house!

Thanks and so much gratitude to my amazing committee members Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss Maura Conway Amarnath Amarasingam and my Chair David Malet. Your insights, expertise, and guidance mean the world.

Emily Corner, Ashton Kingdon, Shannon Zimmerman, Josh Roose, Kate Barrelle, Kiriloi Ingram, Kristy Campion and so many more brilliant researchers.

I am surrounded by greatness in Sydney where we have assembled to explore new challenges and perspectives in violent extremism

This has been a long, long time coming and has involved too many late nights, but finally, with the incredible work of Will Jennings, our book will be released in August 2024!

Currently, pre-order here: amzn.to/3JcauIw
Or here for non-Amazon: uk.bookshop.org/a/588/97801989…