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…
Dr Kristy Campion, Senior Lecturer in Terrorism and Security Studies in the Charles Sturt Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security (AGSPS), and her colleague Dr Kiri Ingram, (formerly with the AGSPS, now with the University of Queensland), grapple with the complexities and crossovers of contemporary extremist ideologies. Read how they examine the question, ‘why would a woman join a misogynistic and hypermasculine extreme right organisation, or submit to seemingly oppressive religious norms?’.
Read how a Charles Sturt University-led research highlights the urgent need to address concerns around legislative frameworks, the complexities of avatar governance, limited metaverse understanding and policing capacities and security-privacy dilemmas. Dr Milind Tiwari (pictured, inset), led the study with co-researchers Dr Jamie Ferrill (AGSPS), and research colleagues from three other Australian universities.
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.
