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

Intelligence Management: Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime

2011

Akhgar, B., & Yates, S. (Eds.)

Springer Science & Business Media

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

Ntioudis, D., Kamateri, E., Meditskos, G., Karakostas, A., Huber, F., Bratska, R., Akhgar, B., Vrochidis, S. & Kompatsiaris, I. (2020). Immerse: a personalized system addressing the challenges of migrant integration. In: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW). (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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.

Book Chapters

Bayerl, P. S., Bates, L. and Akhgar, B. (2023). Securing the smart city: patterns of public acceptance for integrated technological solutions. In: 2023 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). IEEE.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P. S. and Gibson, H. (2023). Citizen Perspectives on Necessary Safeguards to the Use of AI by Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Proceedings from CSCE 2022. Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence . Springer Nature.
Huber, F., Abdel-Samad, Y., Spathi, T., Hough, K. L., Caforio, A., Munteanu, C., Karimi, M., Eckhardt-Rodriguez. A., Kantor, E., Fiadzo, C., Wanner, L., Moudatsou, M. & Dimopoulou, E. (2022). Shaping ICT Policies for Integrative and Inclusive Digital Services. In: Information and Communications Technology in Support of Migration. (pp. 367-380). Springer, Cham.
Kuneva, L., Ilcheva, M., Hough, K. L., Bayerl, P. S., & Pannocchia, D. (2022). Migration Knowledge Production: Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement. In: Information and Communications Technology in Support of Migration. (pp. 71-92). Springer, Cham.
Raven, A. (2021). Case Study: Match Fixing on the Dark Web. In: Dark Web Investigation. (pp. 267-272). Springer, Cham.
Abdel Samad, Y. (2021). Case Study: Dark Web Markets. In: Dark Web Investigation. (pp. 237-247). Springer, Cham.
Raven, A., Akhgar, B., & Abdel Samad, Y. (2021). Case Studies: Child Sexual Exploitation. In: Dark Web Investigation. (pp. 249-266). Springer, Cham.
Sampson, F. (2021). Data Privacy and Security: Some Legal and Ethical Challenges. In: Information Security Technologies for Controlling Pandemics. (pp. 109-134). 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.