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

Domdouzis, K., Akhgar, B., Andrews, S., & Day, T. (2017). Identification of Critical Factors in Large Crisis Decision Making Processes Using Computational Tools: The Case of ATHENA. International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications (IJSITA), 8(2), 11-28.
Marzell, L., & Brewster, B. (2017). Building safer societies: A framework for trust. Crisis Response Journal, 13(1), 80-82.
Domdouzis, K., Akhgar, B., Andrews, S., Gibson, H., & Hirsch, L. (2016). A social media and crowdsourcing data mining system for crime prevention during and post-crisis situations. Journal of Systems and Information Technology, 18 (4), 364-382.
Bayerl, P.S. & Stoynov, L. (2016). Revenge by photoshop: Memefying police acts in the public dialogue about injustice. New Media & Society, 18 (6), 1006-1026.
Andrews, S., Gibson, H., Domdouzis, K., & Akhgar, B. (2016). Creating corroborated crisis reports from social media data through formal concept analysis. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 47(2), 287-312.
Domdouzis, K., Andrews, S., & Akhgar, B. (2016). Application of a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm on the design of a crisis management distributed system. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), 7(2), 1-17.
Bayerl, P.S., Lauche, K., & Axtell, C. (2016). Revisiting Group-Based Technology Adoption as a Dynamic Process: The Role of Changing Attitude-Rationale Configurations. MIS Quarterly, 40 (3), 775-784.
Bayerl, P. S., & Akhgar, B. (2015). Surveillance and falsification implications for open source intelligence investigations. Communications of the ACM, 58(8), 62-69.

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.