Dr. Nicole Matejic

Every author wrestles with the same paradox: you read to write, yet the act of writing continually changes what you need to read. That's because books are rarely written in a straight line - Safeguarding National Security Studies has been no different.

I’m pleased to share that I’ve launched Nat Sec Press—an independent publishing press focused on national security–related research and writing that sits between traditional academic publishing and trade outlets.

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.

'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.

Severance offers a compelling perspective that reminds those working in P/CVE that it is essential to distinguish between fanaticism, extremism, and violent extremism.

Examining a dataset of 6,000 items of ‘mindset material’ via 100 convicted terrorists ... new research has found...