💡 CTRG researcher spotlight #2: Lujia Pei 💡 Lujia is a PhD student at UCL, who specialises in understanding youth radicalisation.

CTRG have had a busy start to 2026: 🔹 @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social presented her work on grievance-fuelled violence to the UK's Counter Terrorism Clinical Consultancy Service for their annual away day

🔹 CTRG researcher spotlight series 🔹 This year we'll be posting regular spotlights on CTRG researchers to introduce our members and highlight what we've been up to. Stay tuned and follow our @ctrg.bsky.social page for more throughout the year!

🔹 CTRG researcher spotlight series 🔹 In 2026 we’ll be highlighting regular CTRG spotlights to showcase what our researchers are up to. Stay tuned for more throughout the year! 💡CTRG researcher spotlight #1: @amberseaward.bsky.social💡

🔹CTRG in 2025🔹 2025 has been a productive year for the CTRG. We have: 📚 Published 22 journal articles, book chapters, and reports. Another 19 are accepted or undergoing peer review.

🌎 Delivered 42 workshops and presentations, in 17 countries, across 4 continents. Audiences included HMPPS, NABS+, AETAP, VOX-Pol, Council of Europe, and House of Commons.

CTRG have been busy recently: 🔹 @sandyschumann.bsky.social chaired a panel discussion for UCL students, in collaboration with Resilience in Unity. The panel featured a former extremist, survivor of terrorism, and a counter-radicalisation practitioner.

📢 Call for Papers CTRG are pleased to announce a special issue co-edited by @paulgillucl.bsky.social, @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, and Oliver Chan - Fluid, Hybrid, and Unstable Extremes. Now accepting submissions for Behavioral Science & the Law. See below 👇🏼 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

🔹 Seminar on domestic abuse and violent extremism, by Dr. @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social 🔹 On 25/11/2025, @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social is giving a seminar titled 'Public or private violence: unpacking the relationship between domestic abuse and violent extremism' at the University of St Andrews.

🚨 CTRG at AVERT 2025 🚨 In a few weeks, CTRG will be presenting at AVERT's International Research Symposium in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 . Details of our sessions below👇

Some recent updates from the CTRG - thread below👇

🧵UPDATE: Last week, CTRG held our monthly meeting - a great chance to welcome new members and connect on ongoing projects. We were joined by Dr Justin Barry-Walsh, Lead Clinician at New Zealand’s Fixated Threat Assessment Centre, who spoke on “Terrorism: What’s in a Word”.

Tomorrow 9 October @vox-pol.bsky.social launches this excellent new report by @antoniavaughan.bsky.social Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia. I'm chairing, @audreygagnon.bsky.social is discussing. Do come along! Sign up below. Webinar - 9 October - 6pm BST 🕸️ voxpol.eu/events/new-v...

💡New publication 💡 Out now and open access in Terrorism and Political Violence, @zoemarchment.bsky.social leads our latest paper on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and susceptibility to violent extremism, with @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social and @paulgillucl.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/0954...

Our new study uses a nationally representative sample of the UK general population to explore how different clusters of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can be related to susceptibility to violent extremism.

It’s been a busy week for CTRG: 🔹 Prague 🇨🇿: Lujia Pei presented her PhD research at the VOX-Pol Next Generation Network Conference, sharing insights from a systematic review on how young people become involved in violent extremism, with a special focus on the role of the internet.

Children are increasingly being radicalized online, adopting violent extremist beliefs. How should society respond? Four @ncite.bsky.social scholars argue that prevention efforts should focus less on ideology and more on unique vulnerabilities of today’s youth. justsecurity.org/121085/young...

Also happening this week, CTRG member Lujia Pei will be presenting at the @vox-pol.bsky.social Next Generation Network Conference, on 25th September, held at Charles University in Prague.

Looking forward to #NCVE25 next week in Aarhus. Reach out if you’re going and would like to connect

@amberseaward.bsky.social and I are pleased to be leading the CoI on Risk Assessment & Risk Management. Sign up to the newsletter and apply to join below 👇 mailchi.mp/eab69bede76f...

🚨 CTRG at the European Society of Criminology Conference 2025 🚨 CTRG are represented at this year’s ESC Conference in Athens, where some of our team will present their research. Details below 👇

We recently partnered with the Youth Endowment Fund to understand how poverty relates to children’s involvement in crime and violence youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/evid... 🔑 Key insights: 1. Poverty is a risk factor, but we did not find enough evidence to establish causality

We are pleased to share some of CTRG’s recent citation milestones, as reflected by the latest Google Scholar metrics. These milestones highlight the continued reach and impact of our collective work, along with our valued collaborators.

Some of the @ctrg.bsky.social team were at #STR2025 this week 👇🏼. Sorry not to have made it this year but thanks to @lizzypearson.bsky.social @akilnawan.bsky.social and team for organising!

Our research group has launched a Bluesky account @ctrg.bsky.social to keep you up-to-date on our work on radicalisation, terrorism, and extremism. Members include @paulgillucl.bsky.social @noemiebouhana.bsky.social @zoemarchment.bsky.social @amberseaward.bsky.social @sandyschumann.bsky.social

2 days to go! This Friday 6 June is the deadline for registration for the upcoming @socterres.bsky.social Conference @royalholloway.bsky.social .. sign up to join us for the latest terrorism research, fabulous keynotes, networking & a great location. 7 8 July in London (Egham) 🔜🗓️

Out now and open access in Aggression & Violent Behaviour, our latest paper examines the overlap between intimate partner abuse and susceptibility to violent extremism, available here - doi.org/10.1016/j.av...

🚨NEW🚨 @surajlakhani.bsky.social and my new edited collection is out! Hard copy available in a few months. academic.oup.com/book/60071

More information is here: www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri... - my project is „Talk is Cheap? Assessing how extremist content online can promote violence offline“. If you have questions, get in touch. And please share this information with your students!

I am recruiting a PhD student for our new EPSRC center for doctoral training in Cyber-physical risk. The project will examine how extremist content online can promote violence offline. 1/3

Extremely pleased to announce that today I passed my PhD viva with no corrections! Hugely grateful to my fantastic supervisors Dr. Paul Gill and Dr. Zoe Marchment , and examiners Dr. Sarah Marsden and Dr. Aiden Sidebottom. Looking forward to getting all my thesis chapters published very soon!

Our new report looks at how systems of support available to young people and their families work to prevent or expose young people to serious violence. Full report available here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🚨Our new report is out! Our project examines, through a gender and intersectional lens, how socialisation processes coupled with exposure to harassment, hate-based discrimination and extreme content can potentially lower resilience to radicalisation in gaming 👇🏼🚨 rusi.org/explore-our-...

‘Risk of What and Why?’ is out now👇🏼 doi.org/10.1002/bsl.... We apply a type of network modelling to visualise the SPJ approach to VE risk assessment. Finding how different extremist outcomes cluster with differ risk factors (risk of what), and extracting different pathways to action (and why)

The kind AVERT people shared the recording. All the panels are worth watching. www.avert.net.au/2024-recordi...

National security issues will be front and centre over the next years here are some starter packs to help you navigate them: Conspiracy Theories go.bsky.app/FP8gwWj National Security Early Career Researchers go.bsky.app/NFDzxqK Think Tank, NGOs, Research Centers go.bsky.app/12RffMS