Dr Emily Corner

Dr Emily Corner is a Senior Lecturer of Criminology at the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University. Prior to joining the ANU, Emily was a Research Associate at the department of Security and Crime Science at University College London, working on projects examining lone and group-based terrorism, radicalisation, mass murderers, and fixated individuals. Emily holds a PhD in Security and Crime Science. Her doctoral research focused on examining mental disorders and terrorist behaviour, and won the Terrorism Research Initiatives Thesis award in 2016. She has published in leading psychology, forensic science, criminology, threat assessment, and political science journals. She has worked on research projects funded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the European Union, the National Institute of Justice, the US Department of Defence, and the Department of Home Affairs. Dr Corner also has experience working with the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre in London’s Metropolitan Police, which operates a liaison-diversion service for those deemed at risk of Grievance-Fuelled Violence. She also has well-developed relationships with other fixated threat and Grievance-Fuelled Violence centres in Australia and New Zealand.