Selected Academic/Government Presentations

Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (Bielefeld, Germany) 2024     
‘Patterns of Far-Right Terrorism and Severe Violence across Australia, New Zealand and Canada’

Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Workshop (Skopje, North Macedonia) 2023      
‘Stratcomms Considerations and Principles’  

The Norwegian Embassy (Washington, USA) 2023      
‘Trends in Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in the Western World: Australia, Canada & New Zealand’

United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (New York, USA) 2023       
‘Trends in Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in the Western World: Australia, Canada & New Zealand’

Society for Terrorism Research: 15th Annual International Conference (Lisbon, Portugal) 2023   
‘Was the 2019 Christchurch Attack a Black Swan Event?’

29th International Conference of Europeanists (Reykjavik, Iceland) 2023      
‘A Rise in the Far-Right? Comparing Far-Right Violence Across Australia, New Zealand & Canada’

Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference (Toronto, Canada) 2023       
‘Tracking Far-Right Terrorism and Violence in Australia, New Zealand and Canada’  

Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism (Gothenburg, Sweden) 2022       
‘Tracking Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in Australia and New Zealand: 1990-2020’  

C-REX / ISGA Conference (The Hague, The Netherlands) 2022    
‘Far-Right Violence in Oceania’  

Society for Terrorism Research: 14th Annual International Conference (Coventry, UK) 2022      
‘The Evolution of Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in Australia: 1990-2020’ 

Exploring the Threat Landscape: Joint C-REX / CSTPV Workshop (St.Andrews, Scotland) 2022      
‘Extreme Right Violence in Australia’   

Washington Institute Countering Violent Extremism Working Group (Washington, Online) 2020      
‘Countering Violent Extremism: The Australian Experience’ 

Violent Extremism in Canada: Anticipating the Future by Clarifying the Past (Ontario, Online) 2020    
‘A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and Australian Domestic Jihadists (2000-2020)’ 

3rd Annual West Coast Security Conference: The Shape of Contemporary Conflict (Vancouver, Online) 2020   
‘Countering Violent Extremism: Perspectives from the Australian context’

Society for Terrorism Research: 13th Annual International Conference (Oslo, Norway) 2019
‘Findings from an Analysis of 20 Years of Australian Jihadists’ 

Practitioners Symposium: The Hub Model & Applications in Secondary Prevention (Vancouver, Canada) 2019
‘What Does ‘at-risk’ of Radicalisation to Violent Extremism Look Like? Insights from Australia’    

Tackling Insurgent Ideologies (New Delhi, India) 2019
‘When Terrorists Come Home’             

Partnering in Practice: Preventing Social Polarisations (Edmonton, Canada) 2018
‘Countering Violent Extremism: Insights from Australia’

Society for Terrorism Research: 12th Annual International Conference (Liverpool, UK) 2018
‘Understanding the Role of Education Institutions in CVE’

Asymmetric Warfare (Canberra, Australia) 2018
‘The rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremist offenders’      

Directions in Corrections: PACCOA 20 years and Beyond (Sunshine Coast, Australia) 2018
‘Working with Violent Extremists: What do we know?’           

Countering Violent Extremism & Countering Terrorism (Canberra, Australia) 2018
‘Applied CVE Practice’               

APATAP Annual Conference (Singapore) 2017
‘Radicalisation towards and Disengagement from Extremism’  

Countering Violent Extremism: Assessing Canada’s Domestic and International Strategies (Kingston, Canada) 2017
‘CVE in Australia: 2010 – today’

Centre for Crime Policy and Research (Adelaide, Australia) 2017
‘Responding effectively and appropriately to Jihadist terrorism in Australia’

Society for Terrorism Research: 10th Annual International Conference (The Hague, The Netherlands) 2016  
‘Teenagers, Radicalisation and the Implications for CVE’       

Center for Research on Extremism (Oslo, Norway) 2016
‘Teenagers, Intervention and Defining ‘At Risk’’

Pearls in Policing (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 2016
‘The Design and Evaluation of Countering Violent Extremism Measures’

PASILE 2016 (Canberra, Australia) 2016
‘Radicalisation in a Western Context’

Corrective Services New South Wales: Radicalisation Roundtable (Sydney, Australia) 2016
‘Assessment and Case Management of Violent Extremist Offenders’

The Way Forward: Responding to the challenge of IS recruitment (Melbourne, Australia) 2016
‘Teenagers, Intervention and Defining ‘At Risk’’

An Introduction to Countering Violent Extremism (Canberra, Australia) 2016
‘Radicalisation and Disengagement: An overview’

Building on International Research Partnerships to Address Violent Extremism and Terrorism (London, UK) 2015
‘Youth and Peer Dynamics in Violent Extremism’

Radicalization and Violent Extremism: Lessons from Canada, the UK and the US (Arlington, USA) 2015
‘The Role of Family in Radicalisation and Disengagement’

Implementing and Evaluating CVE Measures (Ottawa, Canada) 2015
‘The Evaluation of CVE Measures in Australia’

What can we learn from social media about risk and resilience? (Ottawa, Canada) 2015
‘Factors Influencing Engagement and Disengagement from Violent Extremism’

The Role of Families and Close Peers in CVE (Vancouver, Canada) 2015
‘The Importance of Family in CVE’

Society for Terrorism Research: 8th Annual International Conference (Boston, USA) 2014
‘The Challenge of Understanding and Evaluating CVE: An Australian Case Study’

Australian Institute of Criminology (Canberra, Australia) 2014
‘Understanding the Terrorist Threat to Australia’

GREEN Workshop on Countering Violent Extremism: The State of Play (Singapore) 2013
‘Behavioural Indicators of Radicalisation into Violent Extremism: Is early warning possible?’

Understanding Terrorism in an Australian Context (Melbourne, Australia) 2013
‘Applying Academic Research for Partner Organisations’

National Metropolis Conference: Building an Integrated Society (Ottawa, Canada) 2013
‘Combating Radicalisation in Australia’

Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Australia and Indonesia (Melbourne, Australia) 2012
‘A Study of Neojihadist Target Selection’

The World of Terrorism 10 Years after 9/11 (Melbourne, Australia) 2011
‘A History of Terrorism in Australia’

Lessons from 9/11: Reflections on the evolution of Counter Terrorism policy, practice and analysis in the decade since the attacks of September 11, 2001 (Melbourne, Australia) 2011
‘The Importance of Family: A look at connections within the Australian Neojihadist Network’

Globalization, Illiberalism, the West and Islam (Tuscany, Italy) 2011
‘Islamic Identities: Neojihadist Networks and the Australian Experience’

Understanding Terrorism from an Australian Perspective: radicalisation, de-radicalisation and counter-radicalisation (Melbourne, Australia) 2010
‘A Social Network Analysis of Australian Neojihadists’