Research Spotlight: Dr Olivia Brown on Understanding Online Extremism and Terrorism

19 March 2025

How do we get better at predicting, preventing or improving our response to, terror attacks?  

Dr Olivia Brown’s research looks at how groups interact in various contexts. She has also conducted extensive research on how online communications data might be used to predict and understand behaviour offline.

Recent work has looked at how we might identify those most likely to transition from online discussion to offline action, with a particular focus on extremism and terrorism.

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