Our research findings on the UK's Police-Led Partnerships have informed Amnesty's new report on the Prevent Strategy, 'This is the Thought Police: The Prevent Duty and its Chilling Effect on Human Rights'. Many of our project's publications are also cited in the report, and Amnesty will show clips from the films we are producing (on personal experiences of Prevent referrals) at their launch events in Birmingham and London! We are delighted to be collaborating with Amnesty on this important work.

Amnesty UK Prevent ReportLink opens in a new window

Research from the Neoliberal Terror project was submitted to the UN's 'Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism'. It has been included in the final report of the Special Rapporteur into the impacts of counterterrorism upon civil society. The report can be found hereLink opens in a new window

October 3rd: The entire research team travel to Norway to present papers from the Neoliberal Terror project (and an early version of their documentary film) at Ostfold University College, who are hosting the conference 'Responding to violence, terrorism and violent extremism: theoretical and practical perspectives'

25-26 September: Professor Heath-Kelly and Dr Shanaah travel to Madrid, to an event co-hosted by UNED and Universidad Complutense Madrid: 'PODER Y SOCIEDAD EN LA PREVENCIÓN DEL EXTREMISMO MIRADAS CRÍTICAS E IMPACTOS SOCIOPOLÍTICOS'. Dr Shanaah will present his research on central European P/CVE, and Professor Heath-Kelly will deliver the keynote address on the 26th.

16th February 2023, Professor Heath-Kelly presented findings from the Neoliberal Terror project at a seminar organised by PRIO in Oslo, Norway. In attendance were the Norwegian justice minister and the Belgian ambassador to Norway, as well as a large academic audience.

For more details, see here: https://www.prio.org/events/9019Link opens in a new window"

6th October 2022, Dr. Sadi Shanaah (Politics and International Studies) took part in a counter-terrorism workshop organised by the UK Government’s Open Innovation Team for the Home Office. The aims of the workshop were to identify and prioritise the emerging trends that the UK counter-terrorism system should be aware of and to discuss a societal approach to counterterrorism. Dr Shanaah was among 16 external experts invited to the workshop.