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Studying MSc Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies

Studying MSc Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies

Your teaching team on this degree are leading names in their fields with networks across the policy, security and tech sectors.

They all have networks across the policy, security and tech sectors and have published widely in terrorism and counter-terrorism. Read more about the team below. 

Dr. Elizabeth Pearson is the Programme Lead for the degree, and has expertise in gender, radicalisation and counter-radicalisation. She leads module CR5113 Debates in terrorism.

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Dr. Anthony Richards leads module CR5112 Debates in counter-terrorism and is a key author on conceptualising the terms ‘terrorism’ and ‘extremism’.

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Professor Andrew Silke has decades of experience in forensic psychology and leads our CR5116 Psychology of terrorism module.

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Dr. Andrew Whiting’s research engages the memorialisation of terrorism, and he is also an expert in Cyber-Terrorism. He leads CR5111 Contemporary terrorism.

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