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Dr Lewys Brace

Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science (Criminology)

L.Brace@exeter.ac.uk

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01392 726963

Overview

Lewys Brace is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science and 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.

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Research

- 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

Research Groups Links:
-Exeter Q-Step Centre

Research group links

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Publications

Copyright Notice: Any articles made available for download are for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the copyright holder.

| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2016 | 2015 |

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2023

2022

2016

  • Brace LG, Bullock S. (2016) Understanding Language Evolution in Overlapping Generations of Reinforcement Learning Agents, ALIFE 2016, THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SYNTHESIS AND SIMULATION OF LIVING SYSTEMS, pages 492-499. [PDF]
  • Brace LG, Bullock S. (2016) Understanding Language Evolution in Overlapping Generations of Reinforcement Learning Agents, Artificial Life, Cancun, Mexico, https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ecal_a_0080.

2015

  • Brace LG, Bullock S, Noble J. (2015) Achieving Compositional Language in a Population of Iterated Learners, Artificial Life, York, Uk, https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/978-0-262-33027-5-ch064, no. 27.

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Teaching

Modules taught

  • POL3295 - Security, Society and Algorithms
  • SOC2112 - Introduction to Terrorism Studies
  • SOC2120 - Introduction to Open-source Intelligence (OSINT)
  • SOC2121 - Cybercrime
  • SOC3112 - Introduction to Terrorism Studies
  • SOC3128 - Introduction to Open-source Intelligence (OSINT)
  • SOC3129 - Cybercrime
  • SOC3144 - Security, Society and Algorithms
  • SSI1002 - Programming for the Social Sciences

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Biography

Qualifications
- PhD in Complex Systems Simulation - Computational Research Methods, University of Southampton, UK.
- MSc Social and Cultural Research Methods, Brunel University, UK.
- BSc (Hons) Police Studies, Buckinghamshire New University, UK.

 Professional accreditations:- Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP), University of Exeter.- Fellowship of the University of Exeter's ASPIRE, University of Exeter. 

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