Research clusters

Across our research clusters, the Security and Extremism research group aims to deliver real-world impact on the following topics:

• Theoretical contributions to the debate on the nature of security studies.
• Examining, debating and informing whose security is important?   
• Examining issues related to cybercrime, surveillance and online hate speech.
• Security issues including threats to national, regional and human security, such as extremism, far-right threats, terrorism, hate crime, organised crime and inequalities of power.
• Engaging in community-based research that impacts regional events as well as international events.

Hate Crime, Vulnerabilities and Interventions 

The cluster brings together researchers interested in exploring the interface of hate crime, intersectionality, social regulation, political, policy and practical interventions and more.
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Community Engagement and Resolution 

The cluster embodies the University's strategic aim to transform Birmingham and the region through innovative, ground-breaking research on social inequality deviance, crime, harm and crime control in this part of the UK.
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Cyber Threats, Surveillance and Global Security 

The cluster’s work will explore representations of crime and deviance, and explore the construction of offenders, victims and others affected by crime in news media. 
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