About Emma

Dr Emma Belton is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Criminology Institute at Griffith University and is part of an ARC funded grant that aims to understand the emerging threat of grievance-fuelled extremism. Prior to joining Griffith University, she worked on several projects that focused on countering violent extremism (CVE) and has conducted evaluations of custody and community-based CVE programs. She has acted as project manager for an ARC funded project responsible for the development and building of the Profiles of Individual Radicalisation in Australia (PIRA) dataset, which collects data on individuals who have radicalised to extremism and terrorist offenders. She holds a PhD in Criminology from the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on characteristics of individual radicalisation and violent extremism in Australia and aims to improve understanding of risk factors associated with violent compared to non-violent extremists. Dr Belton has received training in the use of the VERA-2R tool by the Dept of Home Affairs and has undertaken a validation study of the VERA using the PIRA database.