UK Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST): Economic, Behavioral and Social Science Aspects of Security Threats

Aim: innovative and forward-looking economic, behavioural and social science research and research syntheses that will contribute to our understanding of contemporary security threats in twenty areas.

Call topics

• Identifying Social Media Influencers and their Impact
• Evidence Base of Data-driven Personalised Advertising
• Culture and Effective Messaging Overseas
• Predicting Narcissism and Risk Appetite from Language Data
• The Effects of Communication Medium on Working Relationships
• Joiners to Online Communities: How do People Build Trust, Credibility, and Influence?
• Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of Targeting Hardening
• Evaluating Security Interventions in Public Locations
• Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of HMG’s Counter-Terrorism Communications
• Determining the Right Balance of Information Provision/Overt Communications to Achieve Effective Deterrence
• How to Support and Enhance Community Deterrence
• Evaluating and Improving the Learning from Multi-Agency Counter-Terrorism Exercises
• Counter-Terrorism Appraisal Guidance
• Prosecution Landscape for Extremist Actors
• Contagion of Extremism
• LASIT Analytical Framework
• Rapid Reviews for Knowledge Sharing
• Environment and Interventions
• Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
• Online-offline Hybrid Intervention

Funding: not specified (total amount available for this Call £1.25m). Duration: 1 year.

Please note- 20% matching.

https://crestresearch.ac.uk/opportunities/commissioning/