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I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant! My project #TERGAP studies how terrorist groups use violence to recruit & strategically adapt to new opportunities when governments repress civilians & build two new #counterterrorism datasets ISGA The Hague UniLeiden FGGA @TPV_Leiden 🧵 (1/x)

President Zelensky of #Ukraine addresses the students of Universiteit Leiden at the Wijnhaven building of UniLeiden FGGA in The Hague.

We were treated to a wonderful guest lecture in our Crisis and Security Management MSc. today by O C Norocel. Cristian spoke about gendering the far-right, but took a very specific focus, examining masculinities of crisis. Thrilling stuff!

For the final week of our course ‘Social Movements and Political Violence’ we had a special guest speaker. To talk about the lived experience of terrorism (a non-negotiable for any terrorism course) former loyalist paramilitary Billy McCurrie shared his experience with the UVF.

As someone who does a lot of evidence syntheses, I really see the value of publishing non-significant findings. So, with Bart Schuurman, here are some of our takes on the null findings from the ‘Non-Involved in #Terrorist Violence’ project in PLOS One⁩ linkedin.com/posts/sarah-ca…

The FT article on Israeli intelligence dismissing warnings about a Hamas attack shows striking parallels with our research findings on recent intelligence failures 1/4 ft.com/content/277573…

A rousing performance of 'Fairytale of New York' was given by Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill at the funeral of Shane MacGowan in Nenagh, Co Tipperary. The performance was greeted by cheers inside and outside the church | rte.ie/b/1420857

Delighted to see this edited volume ‘Fieldwork Experiences in Criminology and Security Studies’ by Cristina Del Real and colleagues in print at last! Check out my and Bart Schuurman’s chapter on interviewing extremists and terrorists #fieldwork #terrorism linkedin.com/posts/sarah-ca…

Heading home from #PSA24 feeling hugely honoured to be this year's recipient of the Political Studies Association Richard Rose Prize 👇 I'm a big believer that academia is a collective endeavour, so this award goes as much to everyone who's supported my career so far. Thank you!

Do you have expertise in scale development? Are you interested in researching #radicalisation at Leiden University? We're #hiring a postdoc to help us complete two systematic reviews on measurement and prevention. Application deadline is the 1st June! universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

It has been a few years in the making, but it's finally out: We mapped the scientific knowledge and approaches to defining and measuring hate crime, hate speech, and hate incidents. It's available, open access, in The Campbell Collaboration: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

What happens when early childhood adversity meets radicalisation in an educational setting? What determines whether that radicalisation trajectory will culminate in terrorism or something else? New article in JSP explores these questions! linkedin.com/posts/sarah-ca…

Relevant for Faculty of Education & Monash Education colleagues like Prof Steve Roberts working on Andrew Tate / MGTOW / Manosphere and misogyny / radicalisation issues.

At Universiteit Leiden and ISGA The Hague, our team are #hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on the 'Preventing and Measuring Radicalisation' project! Know anyone who might be interested? Application deadline 16 September universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

A great place to work!

At age 21, and competing in her first Olympics, she will be the first ever Irish woman to line up in a sprint event final at the Games, writes Ian O'Riordan irishtimes.com/sport/athletic…

This journey began a year ago today. And I couldn't be any happier. Ht International Centre for Counter-Terrorism 🍾🍾🍾

Just one week left to apply for this Postdoctoral research position in: Radicalisation measurement and prevention (1.0 FTE)! universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

What sustains a violent social movement, and what underpins the shift to terrorism? All questions ⁦Kacper Rekawek⁩ is well positioned to answer! Brilliant guest lecture today on the Crisis and Security Management MSc! linkedin.com/posts/sarah-ca…