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

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

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.