Professor Paul Thomas

Professor and Associate Dean

Institution
University of Huddersfield, UK

Research Area Keywords
Preventing Violent Extremism; Youth racial tensions; Education; Anti-racism; Enactment of policy.

Contact: d.p.thomas@hud.ac.uk

 

About Paul

 

Paul Thomas is Professor of Youth and Policy and Associate Dean (Research) in the Huddersfield Centre for Research in Education and Society (HudCRES) at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Paul’s research focusses on how Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) and broader multiculturalist policies have been implemented and enacted by ground-level practitioners and experienced by communities. He is the author of Responding to the Threat of Violent Extremism: Failing to Prevent (Bloomsbury, 2012) and many articles on P/CVE and tackling youth racism in leading international journals. His latest book (with Miah and Sanderson) is ‘Race’, Space and Place in Northern England (2020). Thomas and Professor Michele Grossman are currently working on North American replications of the Community Reporting Thresholds research. Paul is a qualified youth and community worker and previously worked for a national youth work organisation and on youth issues for the UK Government’s Commission for Racial Equality.

 Publications


Books

'Race' Space and Multiculturalism in Northern England: The (M62) Corridor of Uncertainty (2020)

Miah, S., Sanderson, P. and Thomas, P.

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Responding to the Threat of Violent Extremism - Failing to Prevent (2012)

Thomas, P.

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Youth, Multiculturalism and Community Cohesion (2011)

Thomas, P.

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Book Chapters

Britain’s Prevent strategy: Always changing, always the same? (2020)

Thomas, P.

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Journal Articles

Obstacles and facilitators to intimate bystanders reporting violent extremism or targeted violence (2023)

Eisenman D. P., Weine S., Thomas, P., Grossman, M., Porter, N., Shah, N., Polutnik, C., Brahmbhatt, Z. and Fernandes M.

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Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence (2023)

Thompson S., Grossman M. and Thomas P.

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Bystander reporting to Prevent Violent Extremism and Targeted Violence: Learning from Practitioners (2022)

Eisenman, D., Weine, S., Grossman, M., Thomas, P., Polutnik, C., Jones, N. and Shah, N.

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Overcoming Barriers to Community Reporting on Violent Extremism by “Intimates”: Emergent Findings from International Evidence (2020)

Thomas, P., Grossman, M., Christmann, K. and Miah, S.

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The enactment of the counter-terrorism ‘Prevent duty’ in British schools and colleges: Beyond reluctant accommodation or straightforward policy acceptance (2019)

Busher, J., Choudhury, T. and Thomas, P.

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Hopes and Fears: Community Cohesion and the ‘white working class’ in one of the ‘failed spaces’ of multiculturalism (2018)

Thomas, P., Busher, J., Macklin, G., Rogerson, M and Christmann, K.

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Changing experiences of responsibilisation and contestation within counter-terrorism policies: The British Prevent experience (2017)

Thomas, P.

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Youth, terrorism and education: Britain’s Prevent programme (2016)

Thomas, P.

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Unwilling Citizens? Muslim young people and national identity (2011)

Thomas, P. and Sanderson, P.

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Grants and Projects

US National Institute of Justice (2019-2021) – Research on barriers to and concerns around reporting the involvement of ‘intimates’ in violent extremism. My role: Joint PI (with Prof. David Eisenman, UCLA; Prof. Steve Weine, University of Illinois; and Prof. Michele Grossman, Deakin University, Australia). $900,000 US.


Public Safety Canada (2019-2021) – Research on barriers to and concerns around reporting the involvement of ‘intimates’ in violent extremism. My role: Joint PI (with Prof. Sara Thompson, Ryerson University and Prof. Michele Grossman, Deakin University, Australia). $450,000 Canadian.


ESRC/Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) (2016/17) – Research on barriers to and concerns around reporting the involvement of ‘intimates’ in violent extremism or travel to conflict zones. My role: Joint PI (with Prof. Michele Grossman, Deakin University, Australia). £124,000.