Dr Anthony Richards

Dr Anthony Richards is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and is a co-Director of the MSc in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies. He is also the School Director of PGT Education. He is lead editor for Jihadist Terror: New Threats, New Responses (Bloomsbury, 2019), is the author of Conceptualizing Terrorism which was published with Oxford University Press in 2015 and is the lead editor for the volume Terrorism and the Olympics: Major Event Security and Lessons for the Future (Routledge, 2011). He has published on a wide variety of other terrorist related themes including radicalisation and extremism, UK counter-terrorism, British public and Muslim attitudes towards both terrorism and counter-terrorism, homeland security, terrorism and sport, and terrorism in Northern Ireland. He is also the Editorial Director of ‘Combating Jihadist Terrorism and Extremism’ (www.cojit.org), an independent research project on terrorism and counter-terrorism in the UK.