Dr. Elizabeth Pearson
Dr Elizabeth Pearson is a Lecturer in Criminology with the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London and a member of the Editorial Board at ICCT. Her research interests are in gender, extremism and counter-extremism.
Elizabeth is working on a book on the Making of Extreme Men, based on ESRC-funded PhD research at King’s College London. This focuses on masculinities in Islamist and radical right movements in the UK and is due for publication in 2023.
She is also a co-author of the book Countering Violent Extremism: Making Gender Matter. The book argues for a nuanced approach to gender in theorising extremism, and in practical measures to counter this. The book is the result of research with RUSI in 2015-6 in five countries – Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
Other publications have looked at Twitter Islamic State supporters; gender-based violence and the West African jihadist groups Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province; and gendered security harms produced through countering violent extremism initiatives.
Before academia, Elizabeth was a radio journalist at the BBC.
This perspective critically examines some challenges posed to the rule of law and human rights by states’ use of data-driven learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) systems for identifying individuals presenting a threat to national security.
This perspective argues that despite the concern from researchers, policymakers, and the media about terrorist’s use of financial technologies, there is little empirical evidence of the adoption of widespread sophisticated financial plots.
This research paper retells the stories of an individual’s journey to join, dwell and fight for ISIS by examining Zafirr Golamaully’s series of blogs called ‘Dusty Feet’.