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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

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

Amber Seaward @amberseaward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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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👇 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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CTRG @ UCL @ctrg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

💻 @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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CTRG @ UCL @ctrg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🇵🇱 @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

CTRG @ UCL @ctrg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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...

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💻 @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

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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

👏 @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)

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🇵🇱 @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

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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...

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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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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.

Amber Seaward @amberseaward.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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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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...

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📍@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

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📍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

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📍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

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

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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 👇

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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CTRG PhD graduate Dr @isabellevdv.bsky.social will be co-investigator in the Netherlands and current CTRG doctoral student Emily Mayrand will be co-investigator in Germany

🌎 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 (🇨🇦)

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This is a 3-year project commencing in November 2026. 📚 Dr @zoemarchment.bsky.social will be the Scientific Project Manager. Prof @paulgillucl.bsky.social will be leading WP6 (Risk Assessment and Management) with Dr @sandyschumann.bsky.social and Dr @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social as co-investigators

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)

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🔍 Findings support proportionate integration of case histories and emphasis on trauma-informed responses where relevant, while cautioning against treating domestic abuse as a predictive marker of extremist risk

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❓ Where there is an overlap, this might be explained by perpetration of domestic abuse and extremist violence as part of a continuum of coercive violence, or victim-offender overlaps where victimisation comprises trauma that can shape susceptibility to extremist narratives, attitudes, & behaviours

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Key findings & takeaways 👇 📊 According to the evidence base, domestic abuse is common in extremist samples, but not universal nor necessarily unique to these samples - the link is likely associative, not causal

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@paulgillucl.bsky.social, @zoemarchment.bsky.social, @amberseaward.bsky.social, & @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 61 studies examining violent extremism and various operationalisations of domestic abuse across perpetration, victimisation, & witnessing

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🚨 New CTRG pre-print: Domestic Abuse & Violent Extremism 🚨

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Other recent CTRG updates: 🚒 @paulgillucl.bsky.social gave a lecture to the emergency care unit training courses on terrorism threats, at the Fire Service College 📱 @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social contributed to a UK Home Office workshop on Perspectives on the Com

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💻 Perhaps "The Com" should not be the organising principle for response frameworks. Instead, responses may be better structured around the pattern and predominance of harm, recognising that named online communities represent one setting within a broader and rapidly evolving online harm ecology.

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🔃 The labels "victim" and "perpetrator" don't seem particularly useful when talking about engagement with The Com. Most of the young people in our sample were both, and assigning one label over the other risks missing either important vulnerabilities or significant risks.

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The paper identifies common patterns in how clinicians formulate why they become engaged, which we visualise as pathways linking underlying vulnerabilities to the functions that engagement appears to serve. Some further takeaways:

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@caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, with @amberseaward.bsky.social, Richard Taylor, Frank Farnham, & @paulgillucl.bsky.social, analysed clinical formulations for 16 children and young people presenting with concerns about engaging with The Com

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