Professor Paul Gill
Professor of Security and Crime Science
Institution
University College London
Research Area Keywords
Risk assessment and management; Radicalisation; Threat assessment; Lone-actor terrorism
Contact: gillerp@gmail.com
About Paul
Dr. Paul Gill is a Professor of Security and Crime Science at University College London. He has over 90 publications on the topic of terrorist behaviour. He currently manages European Research Council Starter Grant project entitled GRIEVANCE. Collectively these grants have been worth over 9 million euro. These projects focused upon various aspects of terrorist behavior including the IED development, creativity, terrorist network structures, risk assessment and management, and lone-actor terrorism. He has published in leading psychology, criminology and political science journals.
Publications
Books
Lone-Actor Terrorists: A Behavioural Analysis (2015)
Gill, P.
Book Chapters
A False Dichotomy? Lone Actor Terrorism and Mental Illness (2015)
Corner, E. and Gill, P.
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Journal Articles
What Do Closed Source Data Tell Us About Lone Actor Terrorist Behaviour? The Preliminary Findings from Project Regulus (2022)
Gill, P., Corner, E., McKee, A., Hitchen, P., & Betley, P.
Terrorist Decision-Making in the Context of Risk, Attack Planning and Attack Commission (2020)
Gill, P., Marchment, Z., Corner, E., and Bouhana, N.
Terrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers: Quantifying Behaviors, Patterns & Processes (2017)
Gill, P., Corner, E., Conway, M., Thornton, A., Bloom, M., and Horgan, J.
Bombing Alone: Tracing the Motivations and Antecedent Behaviors of Lone-Actor Terrorists (2014)
Gill, P., Horgan, J., and Deckert, P.
Grants and Projects
2023-2026: ARC Discovery Project: Understanding the drivers and motivators of extremist violence (DP230101474)
Shepherd S, Grossman M, Pathe M and Gill, P
$864,680
Principal Investigator. “Conspiracy Theories and Extremism”. Funded by the ESRC Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (£118,863) December 2021-November 2022.
Principal Investigator. “Further Development of Risk Assessment Schemes for Channel”. Funded by the ESRC Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (£74,957) April 2020-September 2020.
Principal Investigator. “Gauging the Risk of Incidents of Extremist Violence Against Non-Combatant Entities”. Funded by European Research Council Starting Grant Scheme (€1,450,000) Jan 2018-Dec 2022.
Principal Investigator. “Testing the Reliability, Validity and Equity of Terrorist Risk Assessment Tools”. Funded by Public Safety Canada ($563,522CDN) January 2018-Dec 2019.
Principal Investigator. “Applying Criminological Paradigms to Terrorist Decision Making Regarding Security and Risk”. Funded by the ESRC Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (£124,965) May 2016-April 2017.
Principal Investigator. “Gender and Terrorism: An Exploration into the Multiple Roles and Manifestations of ‘Gender’ in Terrorism” (£61,545). January 2016-April 2016.
Principal Investigator. “Threat Group Case Studies – Irish Republican Movements”. Awarded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (£17,896). September 2013-December 2013.
Principal Investigator. “Malevolent Creativity and Innovation Case Studies”. Awarded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (£19,956). November 2013-Febuary 2014.
Principal Investigator. “Understanding Malevolent Creativity: A Case Study Approach”. Awarded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. (£15,300). January 2013-March 2013.
Principal Investigator. “Understanding Malevolent Creativity: A Literature Review Approach”. Awarded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. (£15,300). January 2013-March 2013.
Co-Principal Investigator. CREST 3.0. Awarded by ESRC (Total £5,300,000, UCL £483,000). October 2020-September 2023.
[UCL’S PI] Co-Principal Investigator. “Across the Universe? A Comparative Analysis of Violent Radicalization Across Three Offender Types with Implications for Criminal Justice Training and Education” Awarded by U.S. National Institute of Justice (Total - $530,298, UCL - $226,289). January 2014-December 2015.
[UCL’S PI] Co-Principal Investigator. “Network of Excellence for Research in Violent Online Political Extremism”. Awarded by the European Union FP7 Framework (Total - €5,000,000, UCL – €125,881). January 2014 – December 2018.
[UCL’S PI] Co-Principal Investigator. “Tracing the Motivations and Antecedent Behaviors of Lone-Actor Terrorism”. Jointly awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.K. Home Office ($172,770). September 2011-August 2012
Co-Principal Investigator. “A Multi-Dimensional Investigation of the Operational, Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of IED Events”. Awarded by the Office of Naval Research. ($320,061) January 2012-December 2012
Co-Investigator. “Developing a Hybrid Human-Algorithm System for Efficient Content Removal”. Awarded by the Global Internet Forum for Counter Terrorism (£35,000). January 2019-March 2019.
Co-Investigator. “The Social Ecology of Radicalization: A Foundation for the Design of CVE Initiatives”. Awarded by the Minerva program, U.S. Department of Defense ($1,060,527) October 2016-September 2019
Co-Investigator. “Preventing, Interdicting and Mitigating Extremism: Defending Against Lone Actor Extremist Events”. Awarded by the European Union FP7 Framework (€3,000,000). January 2014 – December 2016