CTRG @ UCL

📣 New CTRG paper: online harms poly-victimisation 📣 💻 @sandyschumann.bsky.social leads a new paper in Computers in Human Behavior, using a longitudinal survey in six EU countries to understand online harms poly-victimisation doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

🇪🇺 With colleagues Magdalena Celuch, Emmi Kauppila, Iina Savolainen and Atte Oksanen 🔍 Overall, the paper highlights that online harms victimisation commonly manifests as poly-victimisation, but that the latter is perhaps less stable than offline poly-victimisation

Some more CTRG updates 👇 🚑 Last week we held our fourth CTRG meeting of the year, where we welcomed Alex Grant and George Lucian Tataru from Counter-Terrorism Medicine Europe, who shared their ongoing and important work in research, development, and training within counterterrorism medicine

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💬 @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social and @amberseaward.bsky.social delivered seminars to the wider academic and research staff at the UCL Security and Crime Science department, on their ongoing research into mental ill health, neurodivergence, and violent extremism

osf.ioThe Genesis of Grievance: Examining the Formation of Grievances and their Impact Upon Violent Extremist OutcomesThe causal role of grievances, personal and political, is commonly attributed to the development of violent extremist outcomes. However, our conceptual and empirical understandings of how grievances d...

🆕 @paulgillucl.bsky.social, with Bettina Rottweiler, has a new pre-print, exploring the relationship between grievance, anger rumination, and violent extremism: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🙋 With the start of the new academic year, we are excited to welcome more researchers to the CTRG - Sharon Holmes OBE joins us as Professor of National Security and Defence Engineering across two UCL departments, and Kayleigh Plumb joins us as a PhD student

📣 New CTRG preprint: The Genesis of Grievance: Examining the Formation of Grievances and their Impact Upon Violent Extremist Outcomes 📣 Here Bettina Rottweiler and @paulgillucl.bsky.social explore the relationship between grievance and violent extremism: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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⏭️ Practical implications: anger rumination may serve as a warning sign that an individuals’ perceived victimhood and personal grievances are translating into an increased vulnerability and potential escalation towards engagement in violent extremism, and thus may be a crucial point of intervention

During this rumination phase, there may be opportunities to intervene in the case by sign-posting critical information or warning signs about the consequences of going further than simply ruminating

⚡ Findings demonstrate that experiencing personal grievances mediates the effect of individuals’ tendency for interpersonal victimhood on anger rumination - and highlight mediating effects of revenge motivation and low self-control on individual attitudes and intentions regarding extremist violence

✋ The study also demonstrates the indirect protective effects of trait forgiveness on support for and intentions to engage in extremist violence via its negative relationship with anger rumination, revenge motivation and low self-control

🔀 They use structural equation modelling to examine the effects of perceived victimhood, personal grievances, and anger rumination on attitudes and intentions to engage in violent extremism via revenge motivation and reduced self-control capacity

ICYMI: Recap of CTRG publications from Q3 2026 👇 ✈️ "Airport Target-Hardening Fails to Deter Attempted Attacks on Aircraft: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Deterrence and Displacement ": @amberseaward.bsky.social, @zoemarchment.bsky.social, @paulgillucl.bsky.social lnkd.in/euXfXhJt

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⚧️ "Formulating pathways of engagement with The Com": @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, @amberseaward.bsky.social, Richard Taylor, Frank Farnham, @paulgillucl.bsky.social lnkd.in/eN_ajmqm

⚧️ "Pathways into Violence-focused Online Communities: Examining Configurations and Temporal Patterns of Motivational Drivers and Risk Factors": @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, @sandyschumann.bsky.social, Sara Rubini, Ance Martinsone, Bettina Rottweiler lnkd.in/eaMjNRR2

🔀 "Identifying Pathways to Engagement with The Com: A Study of Open-source Data ": @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, Bettina Rottweiler, @sandyschumann.bsky.social lnkd.in/ek66eF9V

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New preprints: 🏠 "Domestic Abuse and Violent Extremism: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis": @paulgillucl.bsky.social, @zoemarchment.bsky.social, @amberseaward.bsky.social, @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social lnkd.in/eYjEAp42

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👇 New SPJ approach for assessing risk of extremist violence in adolescents: webinar on 19th October, 16:30 UK time: 👇 🧵

lnkd.inThe Assessment of Risk for Extremist Violence in AdolescentsIAPSS Risk Assessment & Management Community of Interest presents Dr Caroline Logan introducing the AREVA-CV

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Updates from the CTRG 👇 🏛️ @paulgillucl.bsky.social gave a seminar for the UK Southport Inquiry, as part of the 'Violence Fixated Individuals – the internet, online platforms and pathways to violence' session. This is available on the Inquiry's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxVP...

🇫🇮 @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social has been announced as a keynote speaker at the annual Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism in Helsinki next May. The deadline for abstracts is 9th October: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

helsinki.fiCall for Papers | Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism | University of HelsinkiThe call for papers for the 8th Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism is now open. We welcome empirical and theoretical submissions broadly related to violent extremism, radicalisation, and their pre...

💻 @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, @sandyschumann.bsky.social, Aiden Sidebottom, @amberseaward.bsky.social, and Valia Panagiotaropoulou have started the project "Mapping What Works: Preventing and Responding to Online Exploitation Networks", funded by the Cabinet Office’s Evaluation Accelerator Fund

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🇵🇱 @sandyschumann.bsky.social and Ellie Wong were at the European Society of Criminology's annual conference in Warsaw, presenting their work on online harms, urban security, & cyber security

As the new academic year begins, the CTRG are busy 👇 🔍 CTRG research is featuring in the public seminars organised as part of the UK Southport Inquiry.

This is a 3-year project, and includes contributions from Public Safety Canada and the New Zealand Police, along with several further collaborations with international academic and practitioner partners

💻 @sandyschumann.bsky.social and @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social were awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme small research grant to examine where and how children and young people engage with gore online, as part of their work on The Com and nihilistic violent extremism

As the new academic year begins, the CTRG are busy 👇 🔍 CTRG research is featuring in the public seminars organised as part of the UK Southport Inquiry.

🇵🇱 @sandyschumann.bsky.social and Ellie Wong are at the annual conference of the European Society of Criminology in Warsaw this week, presenting their work on online harms, urban security, & cyber security

👏 @noemiebouhana.bsky.social is leading a new €3.1m grant from the European Commission for her project “ONLIVES” (Anticipating and Countering Fluid Criminal and Violent Extremism)

As the new academic year begins, the CTRG are busy 👇 🔍 CTRG research is featuring in the public seminars organised as part of the UK Southport Inquiry.

In yesterday's seminar on 'Violence Fixated Individuals – views from Psychiatry, Psychology and Philosophy', Dr Richard Taylor mentioned ongoing work by @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, @amberseaward.bsky.social, and @paulgillucl.bsky.social with the Counterterrorism Clinical Consultancy Service

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Next week, on 15th September, @paulgillucl.bsky.social will be giving a seminar in the session on 'Violence Fixated Individuals – the internet, online platforms and pathways to violence'. More details here: www.southport.public-inquiry.uk/hearings/tim...

crestresearch.ac.ukResearcher Safety and Wellbeing AdviceThe NABS+ ECR Steering Group have developed some helpful guides on researcher safety and wellbeing, synthesising advice from researchers in the fields, and direct researchers to existing resources and...

See below resources for researcher safety and wellbeing, compiled by @amberseaward.bsky.social and colleagues at NABS+ 👇

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⚠️ Resources available for researcher safety and wellbeing ⚠️ Research in the extremism, security, and defence space can be dangerous, sensitive, and emotionally demanding. NABS+ have developed some guides to help researchers in these spaces: crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/re...

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🚨 CTRG at #Eurocrim2026 🚨 Several CTRG researchers are presenting their work this week at the European Society of Criminology's annual conference in Warsaw 🇵🇱 See our panels below 👇

📍Eleanor Wong: Beyond cybersecurity: cyber-physical threats to critical water infrastructure, in the panel 'Cybercrime Governance, Infrastructure and Policing' - Friday 11th September, 17:00-18:15

📍@sandyschumann.bsky.social A Longitudinal Study of Repeat Online Harms Victimisation in Six EU Countries, in the panel 'Victims of the Digital Age: Patterns, Perceptions, and Pathways to Help' - Saturday 12th September, 09:00-10:15

🚨 CTRG at #Eurocrim2026 🚨 Several CTRG researchers are presenting their work this week at the European Society of Criminology's annual conference in Warsaw 🇵🇱 See our panels below 👇

📍 @sandyschumann.bsky.social is a discussant on the roundtable titled 'Repeatability in Criminology' - Thursday 10th September, 10:30-11:45

📍Eleanor Wong: Engaging Young Citizens in Urban Security Design Through Serious Games, in the panel 'Advances in Quantitative Methods Panel 3: Automated Analysis and Quantitative Evidence in Criminal Justice' - Friday 11th September, 09:00-10:15

CTRG news! 🎉 👏 Huge congratulations to Prof @noemiebouhana.bsky.social on winning a €3.1m grant from the European Commission (as well as contributions from Public Safety Canada and New Zealand Police) for her project “ONLIVES” (Anticipating and Countering Fluid Criminal and Violent Extremism)

UU will lead baseline 'onlife' exposure national surveys in NZ, Czechia, Canada, The Netherlands and UK (with cascade funding for replication in other countries). UoT will use the survey data to test policy simulations.

UCL will lead work on individual risk assessment for fluid extremism, which will include upgrading an existing needs-management tool for intervention providers, working closely with SFU and PSC's data analysis unit led by Marc-André Argentino, PhD.

ONLIVES goes beyond producing new tools and social technologies tailored to today’s extremist threats, including NVE: it supports the procedural and structural adaptation of problem-owning organisations themselves (policy makers, police authorities, civil society) to keep up with these evolutions

Our horizon scanning activities will be driven by our security partners, supported by UCL and SFU. DCU will lead work on youth online exposure (including cascade funding to civil society organisations working with kids exposed to cross-harm threats), working with CU.

The threat posed by criminal extremism to liberal democratic societies is in an accelerating state of flux: its manifestations increasingly blur lines with other forms of serious criminality, test established ideological nomenclatures, ramp up severity of violence, and victimises young people

ONLIVES brings together security practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, leveraging collaborative foresight methods to enable the step-change required not only to counter extremism in its current forms but to anticipate and respond to its future iterations

🌎 UCL will coordinate a 10-partner consortium: Public Safety Canada, New Zealand Police, Violence Prevention Network (🇩🇪), Utrecht University (🇳🇱), University of Trento (🇮🇹), Dublin City University (🇮🇪), Charles University (🇨🇿), University of Waikato (🇳🇿), Simon Fraser University (🇨🇦)