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

Sahar, A., & Sahar, A. (2019). Ethnic politics and political violence in post-2001 Afghanistan: the 2014 presidential election. Terrorism and political violence, 33(8), 1692-1712.
Maciel, R. F., Bayerl, P. S., & Kerr Pinheiro, M. M. (2019). Technical research innovations of the US national security system.. Scientometrics, 120(2), 539-565.
Andrews, S., Brewster, B., & Day, T. (2018). Organised crime and social media: a system for detecting, corroborating and visualising weak signals of organised crime online. Security Informatics, 7(1), 1-21.
Brewster, B. (2018). Collaborating to identify, recover and support victims of modern slavery. Journal of modern slavery, 4(2), 200-224.
Akhgar, B., & Wells, D. (2018). Critical Success Factors for OSINT-Driven Situational Awareness. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, (4 SCE), 67-74.
Nitsch, H., Brewster, B., & Akhgar, B. (2018). Maximising the security and safety of citizens by strengthening the connection between the police and the communities they serve. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, (4 SCE), 147-153.
Scheithauer, H., Leuschner, V., Böckler, N., Akhgar, B., & Nitsch, H. (2018). Developmental pathways towards violent left-, right-wing, Islamist extremism and radicalization. International Journal of Developmental Science, 12(1-2), 1-4.
Gascó, M., Bayerl, P. S., Denef, S., & Akhgar, B. (2017). What do citizens communicate about during crises? Analyzing twitter use during the 2011 UK riots. Government Information Quarterly, 34(4), 635-645.

Conference Articles

Gibson, H., Andrews, S., Domdouzis, K., Hirsch, L., & Akhgar, B. (2015). Combining big social media data and FCA for crisis response. In: 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. (pp. 690-695). IEEE.
Akhgar, B., & Gibson, H. (2015). Processing social media data for crisis management in Athena. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 3-14). Springer, Cham.
Bayerl, P. S., & Akhgar, B. (2015). Online surveillance awareness as impact on data validity for open-source intelligence?. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 15-20). Springer, Cham.
Pournouri, S., & Akhgar, B. (2015). Improving cyber situational awareness through data mining and predictive analytic techniques. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 21-34). Springer, Cham.
Brewster, B., Andrews, S., Polovina, S., Hirsch, L., & Akhgar, B. (2014). Environmental scanning and knowledge representation for the detection of organised crime threats. In: International Conference on Conceptual Structures. (pp. 275-280). Springer, Cham.
Akhgar, B., Fortune, D., Hayes, R. E., Guerra, B., & Manso, M. (2014). Social media in crisis events: Open networks and collaboration supporting disaster response and recovery. In: 2013 IEEE International conference on technologies for Homeland Security (HST). (pp. 760-765). IEEE.
Andrews, S., Akhgar, B., Yates, S., Stedmon, A., & Hirsch, L. (2013). Using formal concept analysis to detect and monitor organised crime. In: International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems. (pp. 124-133). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Book Chapters

Waddington, D. (2017). Police liaison approaches to managing political protest: A critical analysis of a prominent UK example. In: Community Policing-A European Perspective. (pp. 83-97). Springer, Cham.
Bayerl, P. S., & Jacobs, G. (2017). Evaluating the design and implementation of CP-support technologies: A participatory framework. In: Community Policing-A European Perspective. (pp. 247-267). Springer, Cham.
Andrews, S., Day, T., Domdouzis, K., Hirsch, L., Lefticaru, R., & Orphanides, C. (2017). Analyzing crowd-sourced information and social media for crisis management. In: Application of social media in crisis management. (pp. 77-96). Springer, Cham.
Lyle, A., Day, T., & McSeveny, K. (2017). The final ATHENA test case: an integrated view of ATHENA. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 205-224). Springer, Cham.
Jeraj, J., Fink, A., Lyle, A., Day, T., & Blair, K. (2017). Preliminary ATHENA case studies: Test-bed development and delivery. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 193-204). Springer, Cham.
Sampson, F., & Lyle, A. (2017). Legal considerations relating to the police use of social media. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 171-190). Springer, Cham.
Bahk, C., Baptista, L., Winokur, C., Colodzin, R., & Domdouzis, K. (2017). The ATHENA Mobile Application. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 97-113). Springer, Cham.
Andrews, S. (2017). Best practices in the design of a citizen focused crisis management platform. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 59-75). 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.