Blyth Crawford
Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation; PhD Candidate, King’s College, London
2022
Blyth Crawford is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation where she specialises in far-right online social movements. She is also a PhD candidate at King’s College London where she studies far-right radicalisation within online forums utilising an ethnographic method. Among other topics, her broader work has focused on online identity formation and radicalisation, anti-gender and sexuality-based hatred, conspiracy theories and the efficacy of deplatforming strategies. She has published work for the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, CTC Sentinel, and the George Washington University Programme on Extremism, and has presented to both academic and government bodies. Previously she has worked in Hostile Threat Replication. She also holds an MA in Terrorism, Security and Society from King’s College London and an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh.
The catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
