CSTPV’s internship programme provides Masters students on our Terrorism and Political Violence programme an opportunity to gain valuable research experience. You will work with Centre colleagues to provide critical research, policy analysis, and operational support to ongoing programmes of research.
The paid internsthips are advertised in the first semester of each year and allow interns to develop vital skills in data collection, analysis and research synthesis through collaboration with leading experts from CSTPV.
Explore a selection of the work carried out by our interns to see more about the kinds of research are students have been involved in.
Projects
2022-2023
Right-Wing Terrorism: This project traced the history of right-wing terrorism in the UK to produce a timeline of sentences stemming from right-wing terrorism attacks, plots, and offences between 1999 and summer 2022.
Interns Deanna Reder and Cameron Greig worked with Dr Ben Lee and Dr Sarah Marsden to collate information that went into the timeline
2023-2024
Good Lives Model and Right-Wing Extremist Autobiographies: In collaboration with the Centre for Research and Extremism (CREX) at Oslo University, this project sought to understand the potential of the Good Lives Model to interpret trajectories into and out of violent extremism and considers the implications for policy and practice.
Working with Dr Hanna Paalgard Munden and Dr Sarah Marsden, MLitt students Md Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan, Lotta Rahlf, Hanna Rigault Arkhis, and Aimee Taylor produced a series of reports based on the analysis of a range of right-wing autobiographies and material.
2024-2025
Trauma, Adversity and Violent Extremism: this project looks at the potential of applying trauma-informed approaches to security policy and practice. The project is led by Dr Sarah Marsden and Dr James Lewis and involves a collaboration with Erin Lawlor based at Sheffield Hallam University.
Vehicle ramming attacks: As part of a wider, collaborative research project run between Dr Tim Wilson and Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage at the Royal Military college of Canada, this project aims to consolidate existing knowledge of Vehicle Ramming Attacks by terrorists to refine a database cataloguing the attacks carried out to date.
Peace Movements, Armed groups and Nonviolent Resistance: This project focuses on the nonviolent struggle by the Basque peace movement against militants groups in the region from the 1980s to 2011. Led by Dr Javier Argomaniz, the project involves surveying the existing literature on peace movements in conflicts involving non-state actors to support a major book project on peace groups mobilising for peace or against armed actors in the Basque region.
