Dr Lewys Brace

Lewys Brace is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science, programme coordinator for the MSc Security and Data Science, and Co-Director of the University of Exeter's Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2) where he specialises in data science, extremism, terrorism, cybercrime, and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).

His research currently focuses on online extremist radicalisation and the development of computational research methods for the social sciences. This has involved exploring the online behaviours of the far-right through the MineChans and ExID projects and more recently the incels trough the Con.Cel project. His work has appeared in journals such as Terrorism and Political Violence, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and Perspectives on Terrorism.

He is also the lead for the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence's Security and Policing theme (https://www.exeter.ac.uk/idsai/researchthemes/).

He can be found on Twitter with the handle @Lew_Brace and BlueSky @lewysbrace.bsky.social.

Biography:

Research areas:

- Extremism

- Terrorism

- Online radicalisation

- Cybercrime/terrorism/warfare

- Quantitative research methods

- Social Data Science

- Numerical and Computational research methods

- Artifical Intelligeence/machine learning

- Natural Language Processing

- Open-Source Intelligence