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Marcel Obst is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender and a former doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology. His thesis explored anti-gender movements through ethnographic research in Spain, with a focus on nationalism, affect and religion.

Marcel also holds a research fellowship at the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC), where he currently works on a project exploring online harms experienced by public-facing professionals, and one on the public perception of law enforcement's use of artificial intelligence (AI).