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

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.
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.

Conference Articles

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.
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.

Book Chapters

Sampson, F. (2021). Data Privacy and Security: Some Legal and Ethical Challenges. In: Information Security Technologies for Controlling Pandemics. (pp. 109-134). 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.
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.
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.
Akhgar, B., Redhead, A., Davey, S., & Saunders, J. (2019). Introduction: Serious Games for Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 1-11). Springer, Cham.
Maugard, N. (2019). Fundamentals of serious games. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 15-41). Springer, Cham.
Davey, S., & Hancock, P. (2019). Virtual Reality Technologies. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 43-63). Springer, Cham.