CTRG @ UCL
@ctrg.bsky.social
The Counter Terrorism Research Group (CTRG) are a group of researchers at UCL who analyse terrorism, extremism, and radicalisation. Follow to keep up to date with our research.
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
✈️ "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
October 2, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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
✈️ "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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👇 New SPJ approach for assessing risk of extremist violence in adolescents: webinar on 19th October, 16:30 UK time: 👇
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The Assessment of Risk for Extremist Violence in Adolescents
IAPSS Risk Assessment & Management Community of Interest presents Dr Caroline Logan introducing the AREVA-CV
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September 28, 2026 at 4:57 PM
👇 New SPJ approach for assessing risk of extremist violence in adolescents: webinar on 19th October, 16:30 UK time: 👇
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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...
🏛️ @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...
Southport Inquiry - 15th September 2026 AM
YouTube video by Southport Inquiry
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September 22, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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...
🏛️ @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...
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.
🔍 CTRG research is featuring in the public seminars organised as part of the UK Southport Inquiry.
September 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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.
🔍 CTRG research is featuring in the public seminars organised as part of the UK Southport Inquiry.
See below resources for researcher safety and wellbeing, compiled by @amberseaward.bsky.social and colleagues at NABS+ 👇
⚠️ 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...
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...
Researcher Safety and Wellbeing Advice
The 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...
crestresearch.ac.uk
September 8, 2026 at 10:24 AM
See below resources for researcher safety and wellbeing, compiled by @amberseaward.bsky.social and colleagues at NABS+ 👇
Reposted by CTRG @ UCL
⚠️ 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...
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...
Researcher Safety and Wellbeing Advice
The 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...
crestresearch.ac.uk
September 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM
⚠️ 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...
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...
🚨 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 👇
Several CTRG researchers are presenting their work this week at the European Society of Criminology's annual conference in Warsaw 🇵🇱
See our panels below 👇
September 8, 2026 at 9:34 AM
🚨 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 👇
Several CTRG researchers are presenting their work this week at the European Society of Criminology's annual conference in Warsaw 🇵🇱
See our panels below 👇
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)
👏 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)
September 8, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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)
👏 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)
🚨 New CTRG pre-print: Domestic Abuse & Violent Extremism 🚨
August 17, 2026 at 10:59 AM
🚨 New CTRG pre-print: Domestic Abuse & Violent Extremism 🚨
🚨 New CTRG pre-print: How do children and young people become engaged with The Com? 🚨
August 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
🚨 New CTRG pre-print: How do children and young people become engaged with The Com? 🚨
💡 CTRG Researcher Spotlight #13: Ance Martinsone 💡
Ance is a PhD student in the UCL Security and Crime Science department. Her research focuses on conspiracy theories and their links to violence, and what this means for efforts to prevent and respond to violent extremism.
Ance is a PhD student in the UCL Security and Crime Science department. Her research focuses on conspiracy theories and their links to violence, and what this means for efforts to prevent and respond to violent extremism.
July 29, 2026 at 12:36 PM
💡 CTRG Researcher Spotlight #13: Ance Martinsone 💡
Ance is a PhD student in the UCL Security and Crime Science department. Her research focuses on conspiracy theories and their links to violence, and what this means for efforts to prevent and respond to violent extremism.
Ance is a PhD student in the UCL Security and Crime Science department. Her research focuses on conspiracy theories and their links to violence, and what this means for efforts to prevent and respond to violent extremism.
Recent CTRG updates 👇
👮 @sandyschumann.bsky.social gave a talk on online radicalisation at the Cambridge Evidence-based Policing conference: www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/evide...
👮 @sandyschumann.bsky.social gave a talk on online radicalisation at the Cambridge Evidence-based Policing conference: www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/evide...
July 22, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Recent CTRG updates 👇
👮 @sandyschumann.bsky.social gave a talk on online radicalisation at the Cambridge Evidence-based Policing conference: www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/evide...
👮 @sandyschumann.bsky.social gave a talk on online radicalisation at the Cambridge Evidence-based Policing conference: www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/evide...
🚨 New CTRG paper 🚨
Airport target-hardening fails to deter attempted attacks on aircraft: A quasi-experimental study of deterrence and displacement www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Airport target-hardening fails to deter attempted attacks on aircraft: A quasi-experimental study of deterrence and displacement www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 21, 2026 at 1:55 PM
🚨 New CTRG paper 🚨
Airport target-hardening fails to deter attempted attacks on aircraft: A quasi-experimental study of deterrence and displacement www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Airport target-hardening fails to deter attempted attacks on aircraft: A quasi-experimental study of deterrence and displacement www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💡CTRG Researcher Spotlight #12: Valia Panagiotaropoulou 💡
July 21, 2026 at 1:54 PM
💡CTRG Researcher Spotlight #12: Valia Panagiotaropoulou 💡
🔹 MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism at UCL Security and Crime Science 🔹
Applications are still open for UCL Security and Crime Science's one-year multidisciplinary MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism*.
Applications are still open for UCL Security and Crime Science's one-year multidisciplinary MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism*.
July 21, 2026 at 1:52 PM
🔹 MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism at UCL Security and Crime Science 🔹
Applications are still open for UCL Security and Crime Science's one-year multidisciplinary MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism*.
Applications are still open for UCL Security and Crime Science's one-year multidisciplinary MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism*.
ICYMI: Recap of CTRG publications from Q2 2026 👇
📱 "Decoding Influence Narratives: Identifying Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques in Twitter Discourse on Violent Extremism": Shu Jia Chee with Sara Rubini, @paulgillucl.bsky.social, and Enrico Mariconti ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
📱 "Decoding Influence Narratives: Identifying Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques in Twitter Discourse on Violent Extremism": Shu Jia Chee with Sara Rubini, @paulgillucl.bsky.social, and Enrico Mariconti ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
July 21, 2026 at 1:47 PM
ICYMI: Recap of CTRG publications from Q2 2026 👇
📱 "Decoding Influence Narratives: Identifying Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques in Twitter Discourse on Violent Extremism": Shu Jia Chee with Sara Rubini, @paulgillucl.bsky.social, and Enrico Mariconti ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
📱 "Decoding Influence Narratives: Identifying Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques in Twitter Discourse on Violent Extremism": Shu Jia Chee with Sara Rubini, @paulgillucl.bsky.social, and Enrico Mariconti ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
💡 CTRG Researcher Spotlight #11: @sandyschumann.bsky.social 💡
Sandy is a Lecturer at the UCL Security and Crime Science Department and the programme director of the MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism.
Sandy is a Lecturer at the UCL Security and Crime Science Department and the programme director of the MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism.
July 1, 2026 at 12:15 PM
💡 CTRG Researcher Spotlight #11: @sandyschumann.bsky.social 💡
Sandy is a Lecturer at the UCL Security and Crime Science Department and the programme director of the MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism.
Sandy is a Lecturer at the UCL Security and Crime Science Department and the programme director of the MSc Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism.
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Another busy week for the CTRG 👇
🏴 @amberseaward.bsky.social and Andrea Hall presented at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)'s annual BASS conference, discussing pathways into terrorism and the question of ideological categorisations
🏴 @amberseaward.bsky.social and Andrea Hall presented at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)'s annual BASS conference, discussing pathways into terrorism and the question of ideological categorisations
June 29, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Another busy week for the CTRG 👇
🏴 @amberseaward.bsky.social and Andrea Hall presented at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)'s annual BASS conference, discussing pathways into terrorism and the question of ideological categorisations
🏴 @amberseaward.bsky.social and Andrea Hall presented at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)'s annual BASS conference, discussing pathways into terrorism and the question of ideological categorisations
Another busy week for the CTRG 👇
🏴 @amberseaward.bsky.social and Andrea Hall presented at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)'s annual BASS conference, discussing pathways into terrorism and the question of ideological categorisations
🏴 @amberseaward.bsky.social and Andrea Hall presented at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)'s annual BASS conference, discussing pathways into terrorism and the question of ideological categorisations
June 29, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Another busy week for the CTRG 👇
🏴 @amberseaward.bsky.social and Andrea Hall presented at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)'s annual BASS conference, discussing pathways into terrorism and the question of ideological categorisations
🏴 @amberseaward.bsky.social and Andrea Hall presented at the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)'s annual BASS conference, discussing pathways into terrorism and the question of ideological categorisations
CTRG at #TASM2026 👇
CTRG have recently returned from the 2026 Terrorism and Social Media Conference, where @paulgillucl.bsky.social gave the opening keynote, and @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, Sara Rubini, and Shu Jia Chee provided panel presentations.
CTRG have recently returned from the 2026 Terrorism and Social Media Conference, where @paulgillucl.bsky.social gave the opening keynote, and @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, Sara Rubini, and Shu Jia Chee provided panel presentations.
June 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM
CTRG at #TASM2026 👇
CTRG have recently returned from the 2026 Terrorism and Social Media Conference, where @paulgillucl.bsky.social gave the opening keynote, and @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, Sara Rubini, and Shu Jia Chee provided panel presentations.
CTRG have recently returned from the 2026 Terrorism and Social Media Conference, where @paulgillucl.bsky.social gave the opening keynote, and @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, Sara Rubini, and Shu Jia Chee provided panel presentations.
🚨 CTRG at #TASM2026 🚨
Many CTRG researchers will be presenting their work at this year’s Terrorism and Social Media conference in Swansea next week 🏴
Many CTRG researchers will be presenting their work at this year’s Terrorism and Social Media conference in Swansea next week 🏴
June 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
🚨 CTRG at #TASM2026 🚨
Many CTRG researchers will be presenting their work at this year’s Terrorism and Social Media conference in Swansea next week 🏴
Many CTRG researchers will be presenting their work at this year’s Terrorism and Social Media conference in Swansea next week 🏴
💡 CTRG Researcher Spotlight #10: @paulgillucl.bsky.social 💡
Paul is Professor of Security and Crime Science at UCL.
His research focuses on developing the scientific evidence base for pathways in and out of violent extremism, evaluation of CT practice, and development of measurement tools.
Paul is Professor of Security and Crime Science at UCL.
His research focuses on developing the scientific evidence base for pathways in and out of violent extremism, evaluation of CT practice, and development of measurement tools.
June 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
💡 CTRG Researcher Spotlight #10: @paulgillucl.bsky.social 💡
Paul is Professor of Security and Crime Science at UCL.
His research focuses on developing the scientific evidence base for pathways in and out of violent extremism, evaluation of CT practice, and development of measurement tools.
Paul is Professor of Security and Crime Science at UCL.
His research focuses on developing the scientific evidence base for pathways in and out of violent extremism, evaluation of CT practice, and development of measurement tools.
Latest CTRG news 👇
🆕 We welcomed two new CTRG members who are starting their PhDs at UCL Security and Crime Science: Andrea Hall, forensic psychologist in HMPPS, and Abu Ullah, Prevent Strategy Manager at Brent Council. We look forward to collaborating and sharing more about their research!
🆕 We welcomed two new CTRG members who are starting their PhDs at UCL Security and Crime Science: Andrea Hall, forensic psychologist in HMPPS, and Abu Ullah, Prevent Strategy Manager at Brent Council. We look forward to collaborating and sharing more about their research!
June 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Latest CTRG news 👇
🆕 We welcomed two new CTRG members who are starting their PhDs at UCL Security and Crime Science: Andrea Hall, forensic psychologist in HMPPS, and Abu Ullah, Prevent Strategy Manager at Brent Council. We look forward to collaborating and sharing more about their research!
🆕 We welcomed two new CTRG members who are starting their PhDs at UCL Security and Crime Science: Andrea Hall, forensic psychologist in HMPPS, and Abu Ullah, Prevent Strategy Manager at Brent Council. We look forward to collaborating and sharing more about their research!
🚨 New CTRG publication 🚨
Decoding Influence Narratives: Identifying Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques in Twitter Discourse on Violent Extremism
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Decoding Influence Narratives: Identifying Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques in Twitter Discourse on Violent Extremism
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
June 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
🚨 New CTRG publication 🚨
Decoding Influence Narratives: Identifying Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques in Twitter Discourse on Violent Extremism
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Decoding Influence Narratives: Identifying Persuasion and Propaganda Techniques in Twitter Discourse on Violent Extremism
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
💡CTRG Researcher Spotlight #9: Philip Doherty 💡
June 2, 2026 at 10:10 AM
💡CTRG Researcher Spotlight #9: Philip Doherty 💡