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

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

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.