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

Open source intelligence investigation: From strategy to implementation

2017

Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P. S., & Sampson, F. (Eds.)

Springer

Combating cyber crime and cyber terrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities

2016

Akhgar, B., & Brewster, B. (Eds.)

Springer Cham

Global Security, Safety and Sustainability: Tomorrow’s Challenges of Cyber Security

2015

Jahankhani, H., Carlile, A., Akhgar, B., Taal, A., Hessami, A. G., & Hosseinian-Far, A. (Eds.).

Springer

Application of big data for national security: a practitioner’s guide to emerging technologies

2015

Akhgar, B., Saathoff, G. B., Arabnia, H. R., Hill, R., Staniforth, A., & Bayerl, P. S.

Butterworth-Heinemann

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

Budy, F. C., Hough, K. L., & Abdel-Samad, Y. (2021). ICT Enabled Public Services for Migration (MIICT): how co-creative practices advanced migrants’ integration in the EU. In: Co-creation in Migration Studies: The Use of Co-creative Methods to Study Migrant Integration Across European Societies. 169.
Day, T., Dennis, K., & Gibson, H. (2021). TENSOR: A Solution to Dark Web Investigations. In: Dark Web Investigation. (pp. 119-135). Springer, Cham.
Horton, K. E., Jacobs, G., Bayerl, P. S., & Suojanen, I. (2021). Towards Sustainable Solutions in International Security Management—An Introduction. In: International Security Management. (pp. 1-9). Springer, Cham.
Bayerl, P. S., Sahar, A., & Akhgar, B. (2020). The radicalisation-factor model (RFM): Proposing a framework for the systematic investigation and modelling of online radicalisation. In: Investigating Radicalization Trends. (pp. 29-39). Springer, Cham.
Sahar, A. (2020). Countering Radicalisation in the United Kingdom: A Community-Based Approach. In: Investigating Radicalization Trends. 179-214.
Redhead, A., & Davey, S. (2019). Serious Games for First Responders. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 173-188). 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.
Bayerl, P. S., Davey, S., Lohrmann, P., & Saunders, J. (2019). Evaluating Serious Game Trainings. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 149-169). 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.