Countering Terrorism in Public Places

The Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Engineering and Physical Science Research Council and National Security Advice Centre have allocated £2 million to co-fund projects emerging from the Countering Terrorism in Crowded Places Ideas Factory. The concept of the Ideas Factory is to organise interactive workshops (sand-pits) on particular topics, involving 20-30 participants. The sandpit was held over the course of a week in November 2006 and a group of researchers from a range of disciplines used this opportunity to develop long-term ideas for understanding and deterring terrorist behaviour and designing technologies and environments to combat the devastating impact of terrorist attacks. Three projects were awarded following which sandpit:

Award Holder and InstitutionTitle of Research
Professor Tom Ormerod, University of LancasterD-ScentL raising challenges to deception attempts using data scent trails
Dr Jon Coaffee, University of ManchesterResilient Design (RE-DESIGN) for Counter-terrorism: decision support for designing effective and acceptable resilient places
Professor Mike Press, University of DundeeSafer Spaces: Communication design for counter terror

Further information

This initiative is administered and managed by EPSRC.

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