CREST
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The Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) is the UK’s hub for behavioural and social science research into security threats. https://crestresearch.ac.uk/
📣RESCHEDULED Workshop:
The NABS+ Creative Workshop has been rescheduled until Feb 2026 (more details to be confirmed soon!) but you can still register your interest below 👇
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
The NABS+ Creative Workshop has been rescheduled until Feb 2026 (more details to be confirmed soon!) but you can still register your interest below 👇
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📣RESCHEDULED Workshop:
The NABS+ Creative Workshop has been rescheduled until Feb 2026 (more details to be confirmed soon!) but you can still register your interest below 👇
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
The NABS+ Creative Workshop has been rescheduled until Feb 2026 (more details to be confirmed soon!) but you can still register your interest below 👇
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
'Disinformation: What did we learn from the year of elections? Assessing exposure to and the effects of disinformation and foreign state information operations.' Prof Jacob N. Shapiro explored how online political influence efforts have changed since 2018 peak. crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
Disinformation: What did we learn from the year of elections? Assessing exposure to and the effects of disinformation and foreign state information operations.
Professor Jacob N. Shapiro explored how online political influence efforts, which are coordinated campaigns designed to appear domestic to their targets, have changed since their 2018 peak.
crestresearch.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
'Disinformation: What did we learn from the year of elections? Assessing exposure to and the effects of disinformation and foreign state information operations.' Prof Jacob N. Shapiro explored how online political influence efforts have changed since 2018 peak. crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
🚨 TWO spaces left for this FREE NABS+ ECR 2-Day Workshop: 'Digital Profiling and its Applications in Research and Practice', Tues 18–Wed 19 Nov, Manchester. Explore the fast-evolving world of digital profiling. First come, first served. Sign up now!
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ECR 2-Day Workshop
How are our digital traces used to build profiles of who we are, what we believe, and what we might do?
crestresearch.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🚨 TWO spaces left for this FREE NABS+ ECR 2-Day Workshop: 'Digital Profiling and its Applications in Research and Practice', Tues 18–Wed 19 Nov, Manchester. Explore the fast-evolving world of digital profiling. First come, first served. Sign up now!
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c...
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c...
📢 Sign up now for our NABS+ ECR 2-Day Workshop, 'Digital Profiling and its Applications in Research and Practice', with speakers/experts: Dr Joanne Hinds, Dr Heather Shaw, and Professor Oli Buckley. Tues 18–Wed 19 Nov, Manchester.
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c...
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c...
ECR 2-Day Workshop
How are our digital traces used to build profiles of who we are, what we believe, and what we might do?
crestresearch.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📢 Sign up now for our NABS+ ECR 2-Day Workshop, 'Digital Profiling and its Applications in Research and Practice', with speakers/experts: Dr Joanne Hinds, Dr Heather Shaw, and Professor Oli Buckley. Tues 18–Wed 19 Nov, Manchester.
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c...
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c...
ICYMI: 'Observing Interoperability: A behavioural framework and analysis of multi-agency interactions in the UK emergency services', which identifies 5 core components of effective interoperability: trust, identity, goals, flexibility and communication.
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/ob...
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/ob...
Observing Interoperability: A behavioural framework and analysis of multi-agency interactions in the UK emergency services
A framework on previous theoretical work, which identified five core components of effective interoperability: trust, identity, goals, flexibility and communication.
crestresearch.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
ICYMI: 'Observing Interoperability: A behavioural framework and analysis of multi-agency interactions in the UK emergency services', which identifies 5 core components of effective interoperability: trust, identity, goals, flexibility and communication.
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/ob...
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/ob...
ICYMI: 'Understanding Disclosure Motivations and Their Linguistic Correlates'. Read the report into why individuals choose to disclose sensitive information about people they know.
crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/un...
crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/un...
Understanding Disclosure Motivations and Their Linguistic Correlates
This report outlines key findings and ongoing research from CREST regarding the motivations behind individuals disclosing information about people they know, a critical area for enhancing security…
crestresearch.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
ICYMI: 'Understanding Disclosure Motivations and Their Linguistic Correlates'. Read the report into why individuals choose to disclose sensitive information about people they know.
crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/un...
crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/un...
✨ Job opportunity for 2 x Postdoctoral Research Associates to join the Department of Psychology at the University of Liverpool. Find out more and apply by 17 Nov, 11:30pm 👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/opportunitie...
Postdoctoral Research Associate x 2 posts, Liverpool University
Application deadline: 17-Nov-2025, 23:30.
crestresearch.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
✨ Job opportunity for 2 x Postdoctoral Research Associates to join the Department of Psychology at the University of Liverpool. Find out more and apply by 17 Nov, 11:30pm 👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/opportunitie...
📣 Calling all cybersecurity researchers, technologists, and policy experts to contribute to the first cycle of the EPSRC CRANE Network Plus Delphi Survey - exploring emerging technologies and their implications for cybersecurity. Closes 14 Nov 2025
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CRANE Technology Trends - Expert Survey Phase 1
CRANE Technology Trends - Expert Survey Phase 1
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November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📣 Calling all cybersecurity researchers, technologists, and policy experts to contribute to the first cycle of the EPSRC CRANE Network Plus Delphi Survey - exploring emerging technologies and their implications for cybersecurity. Closes 14 Nov 2025
🔗 uniofbath.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...
🔗 uniofbath.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...
ICYMI: 'Staying Safe: Protecting You and Your Research'. A helpful guide to understanding risk, how adversaries operate, building defensive practices, and extending protection beyond yourself.
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/st...
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/st...
Staying Safe: Protecting You and Your Research
Researching national security, geopolitics, extremism, or other politically sensitive issues can expose you to risks that most academics never have to consider.
crestresearch.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
ICYMI: 'Staying Safe: Protecting You and Your Research'. A helpful guide to understanding risk, how adversaries operate, building defensive practices, and extending protection beyond yourself.
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/st...
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/st...
✏️ Sign up! NABS+ 'Drawing From Your Research'. A FREE creative half-day workshop using playful storyboarding and analogies to help you communicate your research in fresh, engaging ways. Tues 25 Nov, 10:30-15:00, London.
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
October 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
✏️ Sign up! NABS+ 'Drawing From Your Research'. A FREE creative half-day workshop using playful storyboarding and analogies to help you communicate your research in fresh, engaging ways. Tues 25 Nov, 10:30-15:00, London.
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
New GUIDE: 'Staying Safe: Protecting You and Your Research'. Researching national security, geopolitics, extremism, or other politically sensitive issues can expose you to risks that most academics never have to consider.
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/st...
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/st...
Staying Safe: Protecting You and Your Research
Researching national security, geopolitics, extremism, or other politically sensitive issues can expose you to risks that most academics never have to consider.
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New GUIDE: 'Staying Safe: Protecting You and Your Research'. Researching national security, geopolitics, extremism, or other politically sensitive issues can expose you to risks that most academics never have to consider.
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/st...
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/st...
“For police officers and frontline personnel, the ability to detect and respond to the unexpected can be the difference between life and death.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Emily Quin crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/the-...
The Copper's Nose: Spidey Senses Aren't Just For Spider-Man
It's a phrase that echoes across canteens, briefing rooms, custody suites. In policing, this isn't just a saying; it's a phenomenon known as having 'The Copper's Nose'.
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“For police officers and frontline personnel, the ability to detect and respond to the unexpected can be the difference between life and death.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Emily Quin crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/the-...
“Does our knowledge of radicalisation in the community apply to forensic institutions like prisons or secure psychiatric hospitals?” Read the full #CSR21 article by Sören Henrich crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/illu...
Illuminating the Forensic Black Box: Understanding Radicalisation in Secure Settings
Over the last six years working in secure settings in the UK, care teams often asked whether our knowledge of radicalisation in the community applies to forensic institutions like prisons or secure…
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“Does our knowledge of radicalisation in the community apply to forensic institutions like prisons or secure psychiatric hospitals?” Read the full #CSR21 article by Sören Henrich crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/illu...
“ECR networks equip emerging scholars and practitioners with broad skills, connections, and understanding.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Chloe L Squires crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/the-...
The Next Generation of Resilience
The co-ordinator of the Terrorism and Political Violence Next Generation Network, based at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St Andrews,…
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“ECR networks equip emerging scholars and practitioners with broad skills, connections, and understanding.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Chloe L Squires crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/the-...
“One of the most powerful indicators of transformative change is the restoration of hope.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Claire Hazelden @endingtheharm crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/comm...
Community Resilience in Northern Ireland: A Framework for Transformation
Community resilience is “the ability of a community to prepare, respond and recover from disruptive challenges”. In Northern Ireland (NI), where the legacy of the ‘Troubles’ still shapes daily life,…
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“One of the most powerful indicators of transformative change is the restoration of hope.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Claire Hazelden @endingtheharm crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/comm...
Have you heard about the FREE NABS+ Creative Workshop? Explore engaging and accessible ways to share your research through role-playing, and storyboarding techniques. Tues 25 November, 10:30 - 15:00, London. Sign up 👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
NABS+ Creative Workshop
Drawing From Your Research: a creative half-day workshop using playful storyboarding and analogies to help you communicate your research in fresh, engaging ways.
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Have you heard about the FREE NABS+ Creative Workshop? Explore engaging and accessible ways to share your research through role-playing, and storyboarding techniques. Tues 25 November, 10:30 - 15:00, London. Sign up 👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
“Decentralisation comes with trade-offs: while it may reduce vulnerability to attack, it can also slow communication and hinder coordination, introducing different kinds of weaknesses.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Nick Crossley crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/soci...
Social Networks and Resilience
What makes a social network less resilient? It depends on the dangers it faces, and the people within it, with these factors creating trade-offs rather than clear-cut answers.
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“Decentralisation comes with trade-offs: while it may reduce vulnerability to attack, it can also slow communication and hinder coordination, introducing different kinds of weaknesses.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Nick Crossley crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/soci...
“Paradoxically, a focus on the process by which people move towards violent extremism has privileged the endpoint in determining what we understand as radicalisation.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Hilary Pilkington crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/why-...
Why Study Non-Radicalisation?
This article presents a critical, empirically grounded contribution to our understanding of radicalisation drawing on research findings presented in the book Resisting Radicalisation? Understanding…
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“Paradoxically, a focus on the process by which people move towards violent extremism has privileged the endpoint in determining what we understand as radicalisation.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Hilary Pilkington crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/why-...
“Counter-speakers have suggested that it could be beneficial to use AI for counter-speech campaigns to protect their personal well-being.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Ellie Rogers crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/auto...
Automatically Generating Counter-Speech: Opportunities and Challenges of Using LLMs for CVE
As technology has developed, extremist actors have found new ways to use it to their advantage. Large language models (LLMs) are one area that has been exploited by extremists to create and share…
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“Counter-speakers have suggested that it could be beneficial to use AI for counter-speech campaigns to protect their personal well-being.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Ellie Rogers crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/auto...
New Guide! 'Observing Interoperability: A behavioural framework and analysis of multi-agency interactions in the UK emergency services', which identifies five core components of effective interoperability: trust, identity, goals, flexibility and communication.
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/ob...
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/ob...
Observing Interoperability: A behavioural framework and analysis of multi-agency interactions in the UK emergency services
A framework on previous theoretical work, which identified five core components of effective interoperability: trust, identity, goals, flexibility and communication.
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New Guide! 'Observing Interoperability: A behavioural framework and analysis of multi-agency interactions in the UK emergency services', which identifies five core components of effective interoperability: trust, identity, goals, flexibility and communication.
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/ob...
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/ob...
“I don’t get paid enough to care.” Read the full #CSR21 article by KT Sonnen crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/plan...
Planned Resilience: Are We Setting Ourselves up to Fail?
Plans written for delivery by an idealised concept of the person completing the job role, rather than a living breathing being, may be overlooking fundamental flaws.
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“I don’t get paid enough to care.” Read the full #CSR21 article by KT Sonnen crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/plan...
“Interpreting entails much more than just relaying the content from one language into another.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Greta Esposito crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/inte...
Interpreting and Translation in the Police Setting: Human vs AI
Resilient policing systems can adapt, maintain core functions, and uphold fairness even in complex, high-pressure situations. But one often-overlooked factor in that resilience is the ability to…
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“Interpreting entails much more than just relaying the content from one language into another.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Greta Esposito crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/inte...
“Officers should communicate an honest reason for the interaction that is ideally motivated by helping the community and specific individuals.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Kyle Dobson crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/tran...
Transparency Statements Restore Trust & Resiliency
Trust is challenging to build but essential for creating a collaborative and resilient community against public safety threats. Kyle Dobson explains how an evidence-based solution begins with an…
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“Officers should communicate an honest reason for the interaction that is ideally motivated by helping the community and specific individuals.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Kyle Dobson crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/tran...
“Chatbots provide a real potential threat of steering users towards terrorist ideals and views - whether in closed-loop private one-to-one chats or in public multi-user settings.” Read the full #CSR21 article by James Stevenson crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/tech...
Technology Evolves the Tactics: Preparing for the Rise of Terrorist AI Harms
Terrorist groups, like the societies they emerge from, adapt to new technologies. As AI capabilities evolve, so too do the tactics of extremist actors. While the full effects may take years to…
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Chatbots provide a real potential threat of steering users towards terrorist ideals and views - whether in closed-loop private one-to-one chats or in public multi-user settings.” Read the full #CSR21 article by James Stevenson crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/tech...
“The conditions dictating accurate discrimination between genuine and synthetic speech are little understood.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Hope McVean crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/synt...
Synthetic Celebs & Fabricated Family: Protecting Against a New Breed of Cybercrime
AI-generated speech is a synthetic data type posing a serious and current risk, increasingly used in crime. This article introduces ongoing efforts in increasing public resilience against AI-mediated…
crestresearch.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“The conditions dictating accurate discrimination between genuine and synthetic speech are little understood.” Read the full #CSR21 article by Hope McVean crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/synt...