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

Come see the CAISS team and their work on display at the 4th International Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security Conference (BASS24), which will be held at the University of St Andrews, (Scotland, UK), 16-18 July 202. CAISS scientist, Dr Joe Pearson, will present his work on "Examining the Effect of AI and Human Guidance on Human… Continue reading CAISS in the BASS, Scotland

CAISS will be in attendance at IC2S2 2024 (July 17-20), this year in Philadelphia, to present some of the work it has done in in the last few years. Dr Matthew Asher will present his work on linguistic analysis for academic literature reviews. CAISS will also have a poster on the assessment of political orientation… Continue reading CAISS packed for Philadelphia

CAISSathon (new Date and Location) The CAISS hub, supported by DSTL, The Alan Turing Institute, Lancaster University and Defence AI Center, is proud to announce the first CAISSathon. Theme of the event: Explainability The CAISSathon will bring together individuals from government, academia and industry to brainstorm and engineer potential solutions. Researchers will have an opportunity… Continue reading CAISSathon: Explainability