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

Investigating Radicalization Trends: Case Studies in Europe and Asia

2019

Akhgar, B., Wells, D., & Blanco, J. M. (Eds.)

Springer Nature

Technology for smart futures

2017

Dastbaz, M., Arabnia, H., & Akhgar, B. (Eds.)

Springer

Community Policing - A European Perspective

2017

Bayerl, P. S., Karlović, R., Akhgar, B., & Markarian, G. (Eds.)

Springer

Application of social media in crisis management

2017

Akhgar, B., Staniforth, A., & Waddington, D. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

Journal Articles

Hancock, P., Van Hardeveld, G., Jakubcek, J., Akhgar, B., Davey, S., Amann, P (2024). Design of Cryptopol: A serious game for teaching cryptocurrency tracing techniques to Law Enforcement. ACM Games: Research and Practice, Volume 2, Issue 4, Article 32, 14 pages.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P. S. and Gibson, H. (2023). Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces. Policing and Society, 33 (7), 861-876.
O’Neill, M., Van Der Giessen, M., Bayerl, P. S., Hail, Y., Aston, E. and Houtsonen, J. (2023). Conditions, Actions and Purposes (CAP): A dynamic model for community policing in Europe. Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice, 17.
Butot, V., Jacobs, G., Bayerl, P. S., Amador, J. and Nabipour, P. (2023). Making Smart Things Strange Again: Using Walking as a Method for Studying Subjective Experiences of Smart City Surveillance. Surveillance & Society, 21 (1), 61-82.
Bayerl, P., Shahid, S., & Moitroux, P. (2023). Why bystanders (don’t) post about violence: Contextualizing individual versus socialized rationales of observers’ publication intentions. Social Media and Society..
Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P.S., Mounier, G., Linden, R. and Waites, B. (2022). AP4AI: accountability principles for artificial intelligence in the internal security domain. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 22 (6).
Bayerl, P., Akhgar, B., Raven, A., Gibson, H., & Day, T. (2022). Future Challenges and Requirements for Open Source Intelligence in Law Enforcement Investigations: Results From a Horizon Scanning Exercise. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 22, 21-38.
Bayerl, P. S., & Jacobs, G. (2022). Who is responsible for customers’ privacy? Effects of first versus third party handling of privacy contracts on continuance intentions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 185, 122039.

Conference Articles

Ntioudis, D., Kamateri, E., Meditskos, G., Karakostas, A., Huber, F., Bratska, R., Akhgar, B., Vrochidis, S. & Kompatsiaris, I. (2020). Immerse: a personalized system addressing the challenges of migrant integration. In: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW). (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Pannocchia, D., Bayerl, P.S., and Hough, K.L. (2020). The digital mediation of migration: a qualitative thematic synthesis. In: Proceedings of the 13th IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2020. IADIS Press, 145-150.
Suojanen, I., Bayerl, P. S. & Jacobs, G. (2019). Citizens’ positive safety perceptions in public spaces. In: BEER, Michael and ZIO, Enrico, (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference. Research Publishing. 224-231.
Mitzias, P., Kompatsiaris, I., Kontopoulos, E., Staite, J., Day, T., Kalpakis, G. Tsikrika, T., Gibson, H., Vrochidis, S. & Akhgar, B. (2019). Deploying Semantic Web Technologies for Information Fusion of Terrorism-related Content and Threat Detection on the Web. In: WI '19 Companion IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence - Companion Volume. ACM Press, 193-199.
Saunders, J., Davey, S. Bayerl, P.S. & Lohrmann, P. (2019). Validating Virtual Reality as an Effective Training Medium in the Security Domain. In: IEEE 2019 Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). Japan, 1908-1911.
Akhgar, B. Bertrand, P., Chananouli, C., Day, T., Gibson, H., Kavallieros, D., Kompastsiaris, I., Kyriakou, E., Leventakis, G., Lissaris, E., Mille, S., Tsikrika, T., Vrochidis, S. & Williamson, U. (2017). TENSOR: retrieval and analysis of heterogeneous online content for terrorist activity recognition. In: Proceedings Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 16 : From Research to Security Union. Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 33-82.
Saunders, J., Gibson, H., Leitao, R. & Akhgar. B. (2017). AUGGMED: developing multiplayer serious games technology to enhance first responder training. In: Proceedings Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 16 : From Research to Security Union. Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 223-253.
Wells, D., & Gibson, H. (2017). OSINT from a UK perspective: considerations from the law enforcement and military domains. In: Proceedings Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 16 : From Research to Security Union. Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 84-113.

Book Chapters

McSeveny, K., & Waddington, D. (2011). Up close and personal–the interplay between information technology and human agency in the policing of the 2011 Sheffield anti-Lib Dem protest. In: Intelligence Management. (pp. 199-212). 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.