Research Bites: News Digest (Jan-Feb 2025)

Research Bites is your research news digest which aims to capture the diverse research happening in our faculty, collated from various media outlets. In this edition…

Read about Samantha Jones‘ research where she identifies specific strategies and events that organisations adopt that coincide with societal and political changes to form a pattern of how extremist organisations act throughout their lifecycle.

You may also want to read Samantha’s Discourse piece here.


Dr Michael Bewong has been accepted as Member, National Committee for Information and Communication Sciences at The Australian Academy of Science! We look forward to hearing more about this from Michael soon.


Read Dr Kristy Campion‘s recent study. Kristy is part of a research team that has combined natural language processing tools with expert qualitative analysis to explore the complex interplay of gender and extremist theories within online communities.