CREST 2021 Commissioning Programme Call

CREST is seeking to identify and fund innovative and forward-looking economic, behavioural and social science research that will contribute to our understanding of contemporary security threats, or enhance the UK’s capacity to detect and mitigate such threats.

Topic focus

Applicants should propose a programme of work that addresses one of the following topics:

• Identifying Social Media Influencers and their Impact
• Evidence Base of Data-driven Personalised Advertising
• Culture and Effective Messaging Overseas
• Predicting Narcissism and Risk Appetite from Language Data
• The Effects of Communication Medium on Working Relationships
• Joiners to Online Communities: How do People Build Trust, Credibility, and Influence?
• Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of Targeting Hardening
• Evaluating Security Interventions in Public Locations
• Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of HMG’s Counter-Terrorism Communications
• Determining the Right Balance of Information Provision/Overt Communications to Achieve Effective Deterrence
• How to Support and Enhance Community Deterrence
• Evaluating and Improving the Learning from Multi-Agency Counter-Terrorism Exercises
• Counter-Terrorism Appraisal Guidance
• Prosecution Landscape for Extremist Actors
• Contagion of Extremism
• LASIT Analytical Framework
• Rapid Reviews for Knowledge Sharing
• Environment and Interventions
• Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
• Online-offline Hybrid Intervention

Total CREST funds for this call are £1.25M. 

Funding: No fixed limit  (+20% matching from applicant resources) 

Duration: 12 months

Research Authority due date: 28.4.21