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25th September 2023
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.
Presentation at Oslo Conference
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.
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Counter-Terrorism Workshop
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.
Presentation of project research to EU policymakers:
26th September 2022, Professor Heath-Kelly presented research on the UK's Prevent Strategy to an audience of EU policymakers. The event was hosted by the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network's 'Policy Support' group, under the heading 'Workshop on Weak Signals of Radicalisation'. Professor Heath-Kelly spoke on the ethical, legal and political challenges of embedding national security reporting structures within healthcare.
Participating in The Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism, Law, Policy and Practice
On 8th June, Professor Heath-Kelly travelled to the Bingham Law Centre to give evidence to the Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism, Law, Policy and Practice. She advised the panel on the history of Terrorism Studies research and the conflation of causation and correlation in much policy discussion of 'radicalisation'.