Researcher into AI and Remote Warfare, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Linde is a PhD candidate in Conflict Studies and a member of the Intimacies of Remote Warfare (IRW) and Realities of Algorithmic Warfare (RAW) research programmes at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the global development of advanced military technology and its effects on military-industrial relations, civil-military relations, and the character of warfare. Besides her work at Utrecht University, Linde is part of the interdisciplinary core team at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies tasked by the Dutch government with investigating twenty years of Western interventionism in Afghanistan.
Postgraduate Researcher in the School of English, University of Leeds I am a current postgraduate researcher in the School of English at the University of Leeds. My thesis, entitled 'The ‘good for her’ genre and violent revenge in American feminist film (2014-2022)', focuses on contemporary film and television narratives of violent revenge committed by women in unstable states of mind. I examine my texts as a response to the rising misogynist terrorism perpetuated by internet-based incels, which saw an increase from 2019 onwards in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. For my Masters by Research in English Literature, I undertook a 30,000 word dissertation titled 'Disability and Disfigurement in Twenty-First Century Comic-Book Films', exploring metaphorical and literal disability in superhero films. I posited that the origin stories of super-abled people serve the same purpose as the account of how the disabled person ‘became’ disabled; creating demand for a story where non-disabled people can explore and exploit extraordinary bodies.
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Wollongong Luke Johnson is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wollongong and author of the short story collection Ferocious Animals (RWP 2021). His poetry and prose have appeared in such places as Griffith Review, Island, Southerly, Overland, Westerly, The Lifted Brow, HEAT, Mascara Literary Review, Going Down Swinging, and have won or been listed for numerous national prizes, including the Elizabeth Jolley Prize, the Josephine Ulrick Prize, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award, and the AAWP Chapter One Prize. His most recent project was a poetry-art exhibition with legendary Australian artist, Garry Shead.
Associate Professor, Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Swansea University Lella Nouri is an Associate Professor of Criminology and the Co-Director of the University’s Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC). Lella is also a Co-Director of the 7.5m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhanced Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems. Lella’s research specialism is in extremism, terrorist use of the internet and in particular extreme right ideologies as well as hate crime. Lella’s most recent work focuses on combatting hate visuals in communities across Wales. Lella is the inventor of the innovative ‘StreetSnap’ app, which was developed in collaboration with the Legal Innovation Lab Wales and Bridgend Community Safety Partnership. Lella also runs a community impact project in relation to anti-hate crime, Flip the Streets, which helps communities to build resilience to hate. Alongside this Lella has researched widely on extremist use of the internet including far and extreme right narratives, their dissemination via social media and provided recommendations for policy and community responses. As well as co-organising numerous community and academic events on these topics, including a VOX-Pol extreme right workshop, Lella has published a variety of edited collections, journal articles, book chapters, research reports and blogs through leading publishers in the field. Stakeholder and community impact and engagement work is at the heart of her research. Lella’s has most recently been appointed as an Anti-Racist Wales Research Expert for the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan as part of the External Accountability Group. She is also an active member of the following expert groups/networks: Academic-Practitioner Counter Extremism Network (APCEN) for the Commission for Counter Extremism (UK Home Office), Member of the Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) Research Network, Homeland Security Group at the UK Home Office as well as the UK Counter-Terrorism Policing Evidence-Based Review Group. In 2017/18, Lella held a visiting scholar position at the University of California, Santa Barbara on a Fulbright Cyber Security Award. Lella is also keen to work university wide and is currently one of the University’s Morgan Advanced Studies Institute Fellows and Co-Chair of the University’s Race Equality Network (SIREN). AREAS OF EXPERTISE Counter-terrorism Extreme right Terrorist use of the internet Radicalisation Lella has received the following accolades in recent years: 2023 Winner of the Social and Humanitarian Achievement Award - Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association (EMWWAA) 2017/18 Fulbright Cyber Security Scholar Award - Visiting scholar position at the University of California, Santa Barbara R&I Rising Star, Early Career Winner in the 2018 Swansea University Research and Innovation Awards Inspiring Woman Award for Swansea University's International Women’s Day 2017 celebrations The Cyberterrorism Research Project was the winner of the Outstanding Research Collaboration Award at the 2016 Swansea University Research and Innovation Awards She successfully applied for a place on the CHERISH-DE Digital Economy Early Career Researchers Crucible Programme in 2016 Runner Up in the Research Impact Awards (Outstanding Contribution to Law and Public Policy) at Swansea University in 2015 Certificate of Merit from the Swansea University Research Forum Research Community Award, with the Cyberterrorism Project, in 2013 Runner Up in Swansea University's Research as Art Competition, with the Cyberterrorism Project, in 2013
PhD candidate in Criminology, University of Sydney Laura Wajnryb McDonald is a PhD candidate in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. Her research explores the way people bereaved through homicide navigate and manage media reporting in the digital age.
PhD Student, Biochemistry, Carleton University I am a PhD Student in the Bruin Lab, located at Carleton University. My research centers on exploring the influence of chemotherapeutic agents on pancreatic islet function and, consequently, understanding the connection between chemotherapy and the risk of developing diabetes in cancer survivors.
