Dr Kris Christmann

Building Resilience to Social Harms

University of Huddersfield

I'm a criminologist working at the Applied Criminology and Policing Centre (ACPC) at the University of Huddersfield, in the UK. My research interests concern violence in its different manifestations; political violence (i.e. ‘terrorism’) ‘radicalisation, extremism and hate crime’ and also the impacts of social media use on serious youth violent crime/knife crime.

I have undertaken research in the counter-terrorism/security and crime prevention fields for UK Government Departments (Home Office, OSCT, YJB, DfE) The European Commission (Landsec), The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and a range of other funders (CREST, and for various UK Police Forces and research councils). I have acted as an ‘Expert Evaluator’ for the European Commission on Preventing and Countering Violent Radicalisation (€5 million budget) and I sit on the Critical Information and Infrastructures Security (CRITIS) Program Committee (HQ Offices, Paris). I have acted as a reviewer for the Campbell Collaboration (Criminal Justice evidence synthesis) and I also sit on the Editorial Board for The British Journal of Community Justice and am an Article Editor for the journal.