Events

CREST international conference on Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security (BASS23), University of Bath, UK, from 11-13th July 2023. The conference themes are Risk Assessment and Management; Gathering Human Intelligence; and Deterrence and Disruption. BASS23 registration is now open Link here: https://crestresearch.ac.uk/opportunities/bass23-conference-call/

Please join us for the first in our CAISS autumn/winter series of talks.  Our first guest will be Dr Sharon Glaas, please see the details below: Dr Sharon Glaas is a Senior Applied Linguist at DSTL whose research interests lie in how we use language to get things done; for example, how do we evaluate… Continue reading CAISS talks series: Dr Sharon Glaas

Professor Wendy Moncur, Strathclyde University

Lewys Brace is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science and Co-Director of the University of Exeter's Q-Step Centre, where he specialises in data science, artificial intelligence, extremism, terrorism, cybercrime, security, and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).  His research currently focuses on online extremist radicalisation and the development of computational research methods for the social sciences and… Continue reading CAISS Autumn/Winter talk series: Dr Lewys Brace

Talk title: Mobile Phone Data Reveal the Effects of Violence on Internal Displacement Abstract: Nearly 50 million people globally have been internally displaced due to conflict, persecution, and human rights violations. However, the study of internally displaced persons (IDPs) --- and the design of policies to assist them --- is complicated by the fact that IDPs are… Continue reading CAISS Autumn/Winter talk series: Mobile Phone Data Reveal the Effects of Violence on Internal Displacement by Assistant Professor Xiao Hui Tai