Ms. Kathryn Lauren Roman Banda is a doctoral degree candidate in international relations and research methodology. Her methodological scholarship is interdisciplinary. Her Political Science research focuses on the intersection of civil wars with outcomes such as terrorism and sexual violence. Her doctoral dissertation dissects the responses of terrorist groups to economic shocks; this research highlights violence within central sub-Saharan Africa, including the Sahel region and the Lake Chad River basin. 

Dr. Mahtab Shafiei is a peace and conflict studies scholar. Her work primarily focuses on peacekeeping within war-torn areas. Her research combines qualitative, archival research with quantitative methods. Her forthcoming publications analyse the effectiveness of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, as well as the use of United Nations radio broadcasts for mitigating wartime violence.

Mauro Lubrano is a Lecturer in International Relations & Politics within the Department of Politics, Languages, and International Studies at the University of Bath. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include political violence and terrorism, innovation processes in violent non-state actors, anti-technology extremism, and insurrectionary anarchism and left-wing extremism.

Lisa Sugiura is Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Gender at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth, and a research fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS). Her research projects, which include funding from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Home Office, involve the language of cybersexism, victims of computer misuse, technology-facilitated domestic abuse, and extremist and misogynistic behaviours in manosphere and incel communities. 

Ann-Kathrin Rothermel (she/her) is a Postdoc researcher at the University of Bern and a research fellow with the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS). Her work focuses on the role of gender in political violence regarding radicalization processes in online male supremacist and far-right communities and transnational de- and counter-radicalization policy-making. She has published a co-edited Special Issue collection on gender and P/CVE in Critical Studies on Terrorism. 

Megan Kelly (she/her) is a doctoral student in Gender Studies at the University of Basel and a research fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS). Her research interests include identity formation and (de)radicalization processes in online supremacist and far-right movements and responses to these movements. 

Her work appears in Critical Studies on Terrorism, The Public Eye, and in the edited collection Male Supremacism in the United States.