Our Research

Our vision is to deliver excellence in applied research for policing and security. Our approach blends evidence-based research, policy and practice with the development of tangible solutions that have a real-world impact on the security domain.

Books

Information and Communications Technology in Support of Migration

2022

Akhgar, B., Hough, K. L., Abdel-Samad, Y., Bayerl, P. S., & Karakostas, A. (Eds.)

Springer

Information Security Technologies for Controlling Pandemics

2021

Jahankhani, H., Kendzierskyj, S., & Akhgar, B. (Eds.)

Springer

Technology Development for Security Practitioners

2021

Akhgar, B., Kavallieros, D., & Sdongos, E. (Eds.)

Springer

Dark Web Investigation

2021

Akhgar, B., Gercke, M., Vrochidis, S., & Gibson, H. (Eds.)

Springer Nature

Journal Articles

Karlović, R., Nitsch, H., Fikenscher, S. E., Osterman, D., Menexis, S., Tsikrika, T., Vrochidis, S., Kompatsiaris, I. & Sahar, A. (2022). The Threat of Behavioral Radicalization Online: Conceptual Challenges and Technical Solutions Provided by the PROPHETS (Preventing Radicalization Online through the Proliferation of Harmonized ToolkitS) Project. Security Technologies and Social Implications, 247-261.
Birdi, K., Griffiths, K., Turgoose, C., Alsina, V., Andrei, D., Băban, A., Băban,, Bayerl, P.S., Bisogni, F., Chirică, S., Costanzo, P., Fernández, C., Ficet, J., Gascó, M., Gruschinske, M., Horton, K., Jacobs, G., Jochoms, T., Krstevska, K., Mirceva, S., Mouhanna,C., van den Oord, A., Oțoiu, C., Rajkovcevski, R., Rațiu, L., Reguli, Z., Rus, C., Stein-Müller, S., Stojanovski, T., Vallet, N., Varga,M., Vít M. & Vonaș, G. (2022). Factors influencing cross-border knowledge sharing by police organisations: an integration of ten European case studies. Police Practice and Research, 22(1), 3-22.
van der Giessen, M., & Bayerl, P. S. (2022). Designing for successful online engagement: Understanding technological frames of citizen and police users of community policing platforms. Government Information Quarterly, 39(3), 101711.
Kaunert, C., & Sahar, A. (2021). Violence, terrorism, and identity politics in Afghanistan: The securitisation of higher education. Social Sciences, 10(5), 150.
Maciel, R. F. C., Kerr Pinheiro, M. M., & Bayerl, P. S. (2021). Social Forecasting: A literature review of research promoted by the United States National Security System to model human behavior. Revista Brasileira De Ciências Policiais, 12(4), 23–52.
Belschak, F. D., Jacobs, G., Giessner, S. R., Horton, K. E., & Bayerl, P. S. (2020). When the going gets tough: Employee reactions to large‐scale organizational change and the role of employee Machiavellianism. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 41(9), 830-850.
Butot, V., Bayerl, P. S., Jacobs, G., & de Haan, F. (2020). Citizen repertoires of smart urban safety: Perspectives from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 158, 120164.
Sahar, A., & Kaunert, C. (2020). Higher education as a catalyst of peacebuilding in violence and conflict-affected contexts: The case of Afghanistan. Peacebuilding, 9(1), 57-78.

Conference Articles

Orphanides, C., Akhgar, B., & Bayerl, P. S. (2017). Discovering knowledge in online drug transactions using conceptual graphs and formal concept analysis. In: 2016 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC). (pp. 100-103). IEEE.
Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., Hajirasouliha, I., Garcia, R., Ozdemir, Z., & Pilakoutas, K. (2017). A situational awareness framework for improving earthquake response, recovery and resilience. In: Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Santiago, Chile, 9-13 January 2017.
Pournouri, S., Akhgar, B., & Bayerl, P. S. (2017). Cyber attacks analysis using decision tree technique for improving cyber situational awareness. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 155-172). Springer, Cham.
Gibson, H., & Akhgar, B. (2017). Towards an enterprise architecture framework for community policing. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 106-112). Springer, Cham.
Day, T., Gibson, H., Gunning, M., & Akhgar, B. (2017). You are not Alone: Enhancing Humanitarian Field Staff Security. In: Next Generation Community Policing Conference. Crete, 25-27th October 2017.
Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., & Domdouzis, K. (2015). Using social media for crisis response: The ATHENA system. In: Proceedings of the second European conference on social media (ECSM 2015). (pp. 183-192).
Brewster, B., Ingle, T., & Rankin, G. (2015). Crawling open-source data for indicators of human trafficking. In: 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. (pp. 714–719). IEEE.
Domdouzis, K., Andrews, S., Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., & Hirsch, L. (2015). Service-oriented design of a command and control intelligence dashboard for crisis management. In: 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. (pp. 702-707). IEEE.

Book Chapters

McSeveny, K., & Waddington, D. (2017). Human Factors in Crisis, Disaster and Emergency: Some Policy Implications and Lessons of Effective Communication. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 11-20). Springer, Cham.
Lyle, A. (2017). The relevant legal framework. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 157-170). Springer, Cham.
Charalambous, E., Kavallieros, D., Brewster, B., Leventakis, G., Koutras, N., & Papalexandratos, G. (2017). Combatting cybercrime and sexual exploitation of children: an open source toolkit. In: Open source intelligence investigation. (pp. 233-249). Springer, Cham.
Sampson, F. (2017). Following the breadcrumbs: Using Open Source Intelligence as evidence in Criminal proceedings. In: Open Source Intelligence Investigation. (pp. 295-304). Springer, Cham.
Lyle, A. (2017). Legal considerations for using open source intelligence in the context of cybercrime and cyberterrorism. In: Open Source Intelligence Investigation. (pp. 277-294). Springer, Cham.
Tabatabaei, F., & Wells, D. (2017). OSINT in the Context of Cyber-Security. In: Open source intelligence investigation. (pp. 213-231). Springer, Cham.
Ramwell, S., Day, T., & Gibson, H. (2017). Use cases and best practices for LEAs. In: Open Source Intelligence Investigation. (pp. 197-211). Springer, Cham.
Day, T., Gibson, H., & Ramwell, S. (2017). Fusion of OSINT and non-OSINT data. In: Open Source Intelligence Investigation. (pp. 133-152). Springer, Cham.

White Papers and Reports

Bayerl, P.S., Obst, M., & Akhgar, B. (2023). International Citizen Consultation on AI Accountability in Policing. AP4AI Report 3.
B. Akhgar, P.S. Bayerl, K. Bailey, R. Dennis, H. Gibson, S. Heyes, A. Lyle, A. Raven, F. Sampson, CENTRIC (2022). AP4AI Framework Blueprint, AP4AI Report 2.
B. Akhgar, P.S. Bayerl, K. Bailey, R. Dennis, S. Heyes, A. Lyle, A. Raven, F. Sampson, CENTRIC M. Gercke, Cybercrime Research Institute (2022). Summary Report on Expert Consultations, AP4AI Report 1.