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

International Security Management: New Solutions to Complexity

2020

Jacobs, G., Suojanen, I., Horton, K. E., & Bayerl, P. S. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

Policing in the Era of AI and Smart Societies

2020

Jahankhani, H., Akhgar, B., Cochrane, P., & Dastbaz, M. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

Social media strategy in policing: From cultural intelligence to community policing

2019

Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P.S, & Leventakis, G. (Eds.)

Springer

Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies

2019

Akhgar, B. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

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

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

Hassanzadeh, M., Jahangiri, N., & Brewster, B. (2013). A conceptual framework for information security awareness, assessment, and training. In: Emerging Trends in ICT Security. (pp. 99-110). Morgan Kaufmann.
Bayerl, P. S., Staniforth, A., Akhgar, B., Brewster, B., & Johnson, K. (2013). A framework for the investigation and modeling of online radicalization and the identification of radicalized individuals. In: Emerging trends in ICT security. (pp. 539-547). Morgan Kaufmann.
Akhgar, B., Tabatabayi, F., Bayerl, P. S., Nasserzadeh, S. M., & Staniforth, A. (2013). Investigating Radicalized Individual Profiles through Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. In: Emerging Trends in ICT Security. (pp. 559-575). Morgan Kaufmann.
Akhgar, B., Yates, S., & Lockley, E. (2013). Introduction: Strategy formation in a globalized and networked age—A review of the concept and its definition. In: Strategic intelligence management. (pp. 1-8.
Tabatabaei, F., Nasserzadeh, S. M. R., Yates, S., Akhgar, B., Lockley, E., & Fortune, D. (2013). From local to global: community-based policing and national security. In: Strategic Intelligence Management. (pp. 85-92). Butterworth-Heinemann.
Andrews, S., Yates, S., Akhgar, B., & Fortune, D. (2013). The ATHENA project: using formal concept analysis to facilitate the actions of responders in a crisis situation. In: Strategic intelligence management. (pp. 167-180). Butterworth-Heinemann.
Yates, S. J., Bates, C., Akhgar, B., Jopek, L., Wilson, R., Mitchell, S. J., & Killick, S. (2011). The Odyssey Project–Understanding and Implementing User Needs in the Context of Ballistic Crime Data Exchange. In: Intelligence Management. (pp. 11-34). Springer, London.
Akhgar, B., & Yates, S. J. (2011). Strategic intelligence management for combating crime and terrorism. In: Intelligence Management. (pp. 145-157). Springer, London.

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.