Lee Jarvis is Professor of International Politics at Loughborough University, UK. His research focuses on the construction and communication of security challenges. Lee co-edits the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism, and has published sixteen books and over fifty articles on the politics of security, including Anti-Terrorism, Citizenship and Security (with Michael Lister) and Banning Them, Securing Us? Terrorism, Parliament and the Ritual of Proscription (with Tim Legrand). Lee’s work has been funded by organisations including the ESRC, the AHRC, the Australian Research Council, NATO, and the US Office of Naval Research.

Michael Lister is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research focuses on the intersections between citizenship and terrorism/counterterrorism. He is the author of Public Opinion and Counterterrorism: Security and Politics in the UK (2023) and co-editor of The State: Theories and Issues 2nd Edition (2022). He has published research in Political Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, International Relations, British Journal of Politics and International Relations amongst others. His research, which has been funded by the ESRC, has been presented widely, including to the Home Office, the Welsh Assembly and police officers.

Andrew Whiting is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research investigates the construction of security within ‘everyday’, media, and expert discourse, as well as the expansion of UK counterterrorism into the public sector. He is the author of Constructing Cybersecurity (2020) and co-author of Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation and Prevent (2024).