🚨 Upcoming ECR Seminar: Data protection implications of accessing publicly available data for research projects
📅 23 April 2026, 11am
📍 Online (Teams)
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NABS+ Visiting Fellowships Our visiting fellowship scheme is now open for applications

🚨 Application deadline closing soon!🚨
NABS+ Visiting Fellowship Scheme
⏰️ Deadline: Friday 24 April 17:00 (UK time)

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📢 Remember, if you're presenting at the #BASS26 conference (whether its for a poster, presentation or lightning talk) please make sure to register before 4 May.
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NABS+ ECR Seminar: The data protection implications of accessing publicly available data for research projects. A look at the legal considerations when accessing/collecting publicly available personal data from the internet, e.g. social media, scrapping, etc. for research projects. In this talk we will look at the data protection implications of using publicly available personal data in research projects and how to ensure that your data collection is lawful under the UK GDPR & Data Protection Act 2018.

📣 Researchers, is your data collection lawful under GDPR? 📊 Understand the legal considerations when accessing publicly available personal data from the internet in our next FREE online seminar 🔜 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/685ef8... #ECRs #DataCollection #GDPR

From Narratives to Insight: Improving Police Administrative Data with Machine Learning As policing reforms emphasise better use of data, machine learning offers new ways to extract structured insight from narrative records and improve the quality of existing administrative datasets.

How machine learning can transform police administrative data into operationally useful information

✏️ Author: Darren Cook
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Digital evidence of VAWG-related behaviours Language is digital behaviour. Using trauma-informed analysis of communications, we can evidence coercion earlier, reduce victim-blaming, and support investigators facing high workloads and vicarious…

A large proportion of human behaviour is encoded in language, and newer computational methods make it possible to quantify recurring behavioural cues at scale

✏️ Author: Tamara Polajnar
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Using Social Media Data to Understand the Impact of Information Threats This article examines how researchers can use social media data to understand the impact of information threats using illustrative examples, and some of the key challenges encountered.

Whilst digital data can offer an indicator of behaviour, it needs to be contextualised...

Authors: Isabella Orpen, James Ashford, & Martin Innes

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The Deceptors Martin Innes highlights two deceptive digital behaviours that deserve more attention.

Deceptive digital behaviours that warrant greater attention...

✏️ Author: Martin Innes

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From Detection to Provenance: Securing Media Authenticity with Content Credentials The rapid deployment of generative AI has transformed how digital media is produced, consumed, and what we trust online.

From Detection to Provenance: Securing Media Authenticity with Content Credentials

✏️ Authors: Shruti Agarwal & Nightingale
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Scroll on or Step in – The Digital Bystander Dilemma Anna unpicks the reasons why bystanders do (and do not) intervene within online settings and offers some practical recommendations.

Reasons why bystanders do (and do not) intervene within online settings and practical recommendations.

✏️ Author: Anna Davidovic

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Epistemic Reciprocity in Emergencies: Why the way we reciprocate information matters In real-world crises, epistemic reciprocity signals shared identity, enabling emergency response AI systems to detect and adapt to group behaviour serving effective coordination.

How people exchange and reciprocate information can be critical for saving lives

✏️ Author: Shengnan Liu, Anastasia Kordoni & Mark Levine

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Crowdsourcing and the Online Mobilisation of Security Threats Viewing online actions as primarily communicative and organisational tools neglects their strategic power and risks, as digital platforms and tools increasingly serve as contested arenas and conduits…

Identifying the many ways activists use technology, moving beyond commonly-described behaviours such as hashtag campaigns and online petitions

✏️ Author: Cassie Lowery
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Charismatic Influencers, Certainty, and their effect on Polarisation Online Small increases in influencer appeal and activity can produce disproportionately large effects on polarisation online, rapidly driving communities toward entrenched division.

How small increases in influencer appeal and activity can produce disproportionately large effects on polarisation online

✏️ Authors: Ana-Maria Bliuc, John Betts, John Cessford, & Lucas Scott-Harston
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How Influencers Indirectly Mobilise Action and Legitimate Violence Influencers are key mobilisers of collective action, shaping narratives that create urgency, define group norms, and can indirectly legitimate violence without issuing explicit calls to action.

A look at how influencers can indirectly mobilise followers by defining group boundaries and norms.

✍️Author: @darja.bsky.social

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Digital Behaviours CSR#22 COMING SOON! In this issue, we explore how digital behaviours influence trust, decision-making, and risk, and what this means for security practitioners.

📢 NEW issue of CREST Security Review #CSR22 - DIGITAL BEHAVIOURS
Explores how digital behaviours influence trust, decision-making, and risk, and what this means for security practitioners. Read, download, and share for free ⬇️ crestresearch.ac.uk/magazine/dig...

IAPSS Webinar 2: The Eco-System of Extremist Violence (ES-EV) The Eco-System of Extremist Violence: Piloting a New Way to Formulate Risk in Cases of Severe Mental Health Issues by Dr Sören Henrich

🚨 Upcoming Seminar: The Eco-System of Extremist Violence (ES-EV)
📅 7 May 2026, 11am (GMT+1)
📍 Online
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🚨 Upcoming ECR Seminar: Data protection implications of accessing publicly available data for research projects
📅 23 April 2026, 11am
📍 Online (Teams)
Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/685ef8...

COMING SOON! 📣 In our 22nd issue of CREST Security Review, we explore how digital behaviours influence trust, decision-making, and risk, and what this means for security practitioners. crestresearch.ac.uk/magazine/

📢 If you're presenting at the #BASS26 conference (whether its for a poster, presentation or lightning talk) please make sure to register before 4 May.
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Calling ECRs 📣 Join our FREE Post-Conference Workshop on 'R'

📅 Dates: 24 & 25 June
📍 Location: Cardiff Uni
🗣️ Speaker: Dr Xiao Hui Tai

Please note: You do NOT need to attend #BASS26 to join. We can also cover travel costs and accommodation on Wed evening
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📢 You have 1 WEEK left to grab Early Bird tickets for #BASS26

Secure your place and get a conference dinner, drinks reception, and lots of fantastic research at a great discounted price!

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NABS+ ECR Seminar: The data protection implications of accessing publicly available data for research projects This seminar will look at the legal considerations when accessing/collecting publicly available personal data from the internet,

ECR Seminar: The data protection implications of accessing publicly available data for research projects
📅 23 April 2026, 11am
📍 Online (Teams)
Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/685ef8...

Incel and the Incelosphere: An overview of current research and understanding Should incel ideology be considered as extremist? This full report explores this question and provides an overview of the incel ideology, the wider manosphere, and any threats posed.

If you've seen Louis Theroux's "Inside the Manosphere" documentary, you might be interested in this CREST report by Lewys Brace, which gives a great overview of the incel ideology and the wider manosphere crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/in... #Manosphere

Registration Get your tickets for BASS26 today!

Remember to book your accommodation for #BASS26! 🛌 Rooms can be booked via the online store as part of the registration process ➡️ crestresearch.ac.uk/bass26/regis...

Calling ECRs 📣 Join our Pre-Conference Workshop

📅 Date: Mon 22 June (AM)
🗣️ Speaker: Dr Sarah Marsden

This session will focus on grant writing and communicating research to non-academics.
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Calling ECRS 📣 Join our Post-Conference Workshop on 'R'

📅 Dates: Wed 24 June (PM) & Thurs 25 June (AM)
🗣️ Speaker: Dr Xiao Hui Tai

Please note: You do NOT need to attend #BASS26 to join. We can also cover travel costs and accommodation on Wed evening (24 June)
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⚠️Remember to reserve your accommodation for #BASS26 ASAP!

Due to major live music events taking place in Cardiff, we advise you to book ASAP! We've secured a limited no. of rooms at Premier Inn Cardiff North for delegates which can be booked via the online store: crestresearch.ac.uk/bass26/regis...

Transnational Repression: Risk and Associated Factors This report follows on from a series of reports entitled Transnational Repression: A Multi-Domain, Grey Zone Activity.

🚨 NEW REPORT: Transnational Repression: Risk and Associated Factors

✏️ Authors: Basil Germond & Benjamin Houghton

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Transnational Repression amid the Contested World Order: A Framework for Analysis in the Digital Age This project aims at better understanding the future drivers and spaces of TNR to pre-empt and address future threats, including in the cyber space.

🚨 NEW REPORTS from the series 'Transnational Repression: A Multi-Domain, Grey Zone Activity'

✏️ Authors: Basil Germond & Benjamin Houghton

⬇️ Read, download & share: crestresearch.ac.uk/projects/tra... #TNR #TransnationalRepression

NABS+ Creative Workshop 2 Join our 2nd FREE half-day workshop introducing the Design Fiction method as a practical and creative low-risk way to think critically about future directions in security and defence research and…

Calling researchers in security and defence! 📣 The next NABS+ FREE half-day Creative Workshop is on 14 April in Birmingham. Register your interest below: crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...