Claims that Aunt Lydia’s arc in Season 6 depict her radicalisation toward Mayday miss the mark entirely. This isn’t radicalisation—it’s a complex narrative of coercion, survival, and slow, conflicted disengagement and resistance against a system she helped uphold.
by Dr. Nicole Matejic, May 28, 2025
'Safeguarding National Security Studies: A Handbook' — a practical guide written with multidisciplinary academic supervisors and students front of mind, offers structured guidance on risk management, ethical oversight, and researcher wellbeing.
by Dr. Nicole Matejic, May 03, 2025

Severance offers a compelling perspective that reminds those working in P/CVE that it is essential to distinguish between fanaticism, extremism, and violent extremism.
by Dr. Nicole Matejic, Apr 20, 2025
Examining a dataset of 6,000 items of ‘mindset material’ via 100 convicted terrorists ... new research has found...
by Dr. Nicole Matejic, Mar 22, 2025
“Ignore provocations.There is no need for European leaders to be shocked by every wild tweet and every chaotic press conference...
by Dr. Nicole Matejic, Mar 05, 2025

‘Crimes of Influence’ – crimes that seek to influence people towards harmful outcomes – will be one of the defining features of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-led cybercrime. With an ability to persuade and influence at potentially unavoidable economies of scale, crimes of influence...
by Dr. Nicole Matejic, Jun 18, 2024