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

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

Jones, A., Davey, S., Fenwick, J., Wallis, R., Whitfield, K., & Akhgar, B. (2024). Work-in-Progress—Enhancing Cyber Prevention Education: Utilising Virtual Reality Technology for Parents/Carers and Teachers. In: iLRN Proceedings. 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Academic, 1(1), 210–216.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P., & Gibson, H. (2023). Citizen Perspectives on Necessary Safeguards to the Use of AI by Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Proceedings from CSCE 2022. Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence.
Cumberland, E., & Day, T. (2021). A Prescriptive Approach for Structured Information Extraction From Web Forums And Social Media. In: 2021 International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Controls (ISCSIC). (pp. 95-101). IEEE.
Bayerl, P. S., & Butot, V. (2021). Smart City Configurations: A Conceptual Approach to Assess Smart City Practices and Outcomes. In: 2021 6th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech). (pp. 01-07). IEEE.
Wanner, L., Klusch, M., Mavropoulos, A., Jamin, E., Marín Puchades, V., Casamayor, G., Černocký, J., Davey, S., Domínguez, M., Egorova, E., Grivolla, J., Jaramillo Rojas, G. E., Karakostas, A., Ntioudis, D., Pecina, P., Sobko, O., Vrochidis, S., Wertmann, L. (2021). Towards a Versatile Intelligent Conversational Agent as Personal Assistant for Migrants. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (pp. 316-327). Springer International Publishing.
Davri, E. C., Darra, E., Monogioudis, I., Grigoriadis, A., Iliou, C., Mengidis, N., Tsikrika, T., Vrochidis, S., Peratikou, A., Gibson, H., Haskovic, D., Kavallieros, D., Chaskos, E., Zhao, P., Shiaeles, S., Savage, N., Akhgar, B., Belleken, X., & Farah, M. A. B. (2021). Cyber Security Certification Programmes. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). (pp. 428-435). IEEE.
McAlpine, A., Sahar, A., & Pannocchia, D. (2021). Abase and Abound: Social Media Campaign Strategies during the Cape Town Drought and UK Winter Floods. In: AQUA≈360: Water for All - Emerging Issues and Innovations. Exeter, UK, 31 Aug - 02 Sep 2021.
Bayerl, P.S., Akhgar, B., La Mattina, E., Pirillo, B., Cotoi, I., Ariu, D., Mauri, M., Garcia, J., Kavallieros, D., Kardara, A. & Karagiorgou, K. (2021). Strategies to Counter Artificial Intelligence in Law Enforcement: Cross-Country Comparison of Citizens in Greece, Italy and Spain. In: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. Cham, Switzerland, Springer (IKE'21 - The 20th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering. 26 July 2021- 29 July 2021. Las Vegas, USA.

Book Chapters

Akhgar, B., Saunders, J., Hancock, P., Lyle, A., & Newsham, D. S. (2019). CyberCentric: Increasing SME and Citizen Resilience Against Cyberattacks. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 195-208). Springer, Cham.
Hancock, P., Gibson, H., & Akhgar, B. (2019). AEsOP: Applied Engagement for Community Participation. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 209-224). Springer, Cham.
Marzell, L., & Brewster, B. (2019). Building a Bedrock of Trust Between Citizens, Law Enforcement and Other Stakeholders: A Scalable Architecture for Community Policing. In: Social Media Strategy in Policing. (pp. 139-158). Springer, Cham.
Raven, A. (2019). Public Crime Reporting on Social Media: A Progressive or Regressive Phenomenon?. In: Social Media Strategy in Policing. (pp. 79-99). Springer, Cham.
Louis, A., & Grantham, H. (2019). Cultural Intelligence and Community Policing. In: Social Media Strategy in Policing. (pp. 37-60). Springer, Cham.
Waddington, D. (2019). Introduction: the police and social media. In: Social Media Strategy in Policing. (pp. 3-21). Springer, Cham.
Pournouri, S., Zargari, S., & Akhgar, B. (2018). Predicting the cyber attackers; a comparison of different classification techniques. In: Cyber Criminology. (pp. 169-181). Springer, Cham.
Brewster, B., Gibson, H., & Gunning, M. (2018). Policing the community together: The impact of technology on citizen engagement. In: Societal implications of community-oriented policing and technology. 91.

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.