Dr Christopher Baker-Beall
- Senior Lecturer In Crisis and Disaster Management
- DH236c,
Biography
Chris is Senior Lecturer in Crisis and Disaster Management at Bournemouth University. He joined Bournemouth University’s Disaster Management Centre in March 2019. Chris is the Programme Leader for the Masters (MSc) in Disaster Management.
Chris is the unit leader for two optional CPD units on the programme: Management of Man-Made Disaster & Security Threats (CPD2) and Foreign Policy Analysis & Crisis Management (CPD8), as well as the unit leader for the Dissertation Project (CPD10) on the MSc Disaster Management. Chris is also the unit leader for the PG unit Crisis and Disaster Management and the UG (3rd yr) unit Managing Crises and Disaster.
Chris is a distinguished scholar who regularly publishes work in the fields of International Relations, Terrorism Studies, Security Studies and Crisis and Disaster Management. His research has been published in Security Dialogue, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Cooperation and Conflict and the Journal of Common Market Studies.
Chris was a co-convenor of the BISA Critical Terrorism Studies Working Group (CTSWG) from November 2011 to January 2015... Chris has guest edited the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism on two occasions. He regularly attends international conferences and has presented his work at the annual conferences of the ISA, EISA and BISA. Chris is an experienced PhD supervisor, having supervised 4 PhD candidates to successful completion. Chris has also acted as an internal/external examiner for 8 PhD projects.
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Chris’s research interests and thought leadership cover several areas.
First, the security policies of the European Union, including specifically EU counter-terrorism, border-control policy and the response to foreign fighters. Second, Chris' intellectual contribution focuses specifically on critical approaches to the study of security, with a particular focus on counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policy. Third, analysing the UK government’s response to Covid-19 from a Crisis Management perspective. His research focuses on the following areas:
• The European Union’s Counter-Terrorism Response
• Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation
• Counter-Terrorism from a Crisis Management Perspective
• Crisis Management and the UK Government’s Response to Covid-19
Chris is currently working on several articles for publication that represent an intellectual contribution to the field of Disaster Management. First, an article on lessons-learnt from the UK’s management of the coronavirus pandemic to help guide public policy for future cyber crises. Second, an article exploring the influence of crisis and disaster management on UK counter-terrorism, with a specific focus on the Protect and Prepare workstreams of the UK’s Contest strategy.
Chris has supervised the following PhD students to completion:
• Dr Katerina Krulisova – ‘A Discourse Analysis of The Portrayal of Female Protagonists of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’.
• Dr Gareth Mott – ‘The Hands behind the Keyboard’: A Critical Reflection of Imagery and the Securitisation of Cyberterrorism in the UK’...
• Dr Jonathan Kenyon – ‘An Examination of the Role of the Internet on the Radicalisation Process of Extremist Offenders’.
• Dr Monika Kabata – ‘The Intersection of Counter-Terrorism, Migration and Border Control Policies in the European Union: The Securitisation of Migration?’
He is currently supervising a further three students:
• Lubna Al Ibrahim – ‘Investigating Disaster Risk Reduction in the Public Health Sector in the Sultanate of Oman: Exploring New Approaches to Risk Assessment to Enhance Omani Public Health Resilience’.
• Peter Dawes – ‘The Role of Public Policy in Drowning Prevention’.
• Steve Findlay – ‘Undermined or Underpinned? UK Based Volunteer Responders to Crisis and Disaster Events’.
Chris is happy to supervise students in any area of International Relations or Crisis and Disaster Management, especially projects that adopt critical or interpretive approaches to research. He is also happy to supervise research students interested in public policy or security policy more generally, including counter-terrorism, counter-radicalisation, or the emergency management and public policy responses to Covid-19 in countries across the world.
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- Kenyon, J., Binder, J. and Baker-Beall, C., 2024. An analysis of terrorist attack perpetrators in England and Wales: Comparing lone actors, lone dyads, and group actors. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management.
- Baker-Beall, C., Miles, L., Leach, N. and Reed, E., 2024. From Prevent to Protect and Prepare: The Manchester Arena Attack and Shifting Priorities in the United Kingdom’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST). Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
- Kenyon, J., Binder, J.F. and Baker-Beall, C., 2023. Online radicalization: Profile and risk analysis of individuals convicted of extremist offences. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 28 (1), 74-90.
- Kenyon, J., Baker-Beall, C. and Binder, J., 2023. Lone-Actor Terrorism–A Systematic Literature Review. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 46 (10), 2038-2065.
- Baker-Beall, C., 2023. The concept of the foreign terrorist fighter: An immanent critique. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, 8 (1), 25-46.
- Kenyon, J., Binder, J. and Baker-Beall, C., 2022. Internet and radicalisation pathways: technological advances, relevance of mental health and role of attackers. Ministry of Justice. Available from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1121985/internet-radicalisation-report.pdf.
- Baker-Beall, C. and Mott, G., 2022. Understanding the European Union's Perception of the Threat of Cyberterrorism: A Discursive Analysis. Journal of Common Market Studies, 60 (4), 1086-1105.
- Kenyon, J., Binder, J. and Baker-Beall, C., 2022. Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Process of Radicalisation: An Analysis of Convicted Extremists in England and Wales. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
- Baker-Beall, C. and Mott, G., 2021. The new EU counter-terrorism Agenda: preemptive security through the anticipation of terrorist events. Global Affairs, 7 (5), 711-732.
- Baker-Beall, C., Kenyon, J. and Binder, J., 2021. Exploring the role of the Internet in radicalisation and offending of convicted extremists. Ministry of Justice. Available from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1017413/exploring-role-internet-radicalisation.pdf.
- Baker-Beall, C. and Clark, R., 2021. A “Post-Copenhagen” Analysis of China’s Securitization of the Uyghur: A Counterproductive Securitization? Democracy and Security, 17 (4), 427-454.
- Baker-Beall, C., 2019. The threat of the ‘returning foreign fighter’: The securitization of EU migration and border control policy. Security Dialogue, 50 (5), 437-453.
- Baker-Beall, C., 2016. The european union’s fight against terrorism: Discourse, policies, identity.
- Heath-Kelly, C., Baker-Beall, C. and Jarvis, L., 2015. Editors’ introduction: neoliberalism and/as terror. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 8 (1), 1-14.
- Baker-Beall, C., Heath-Kelly, C. and Jarvis, L., 2014. Counter-radicalisation: Critical perspectives.
- Baker-Beall, C., 2014. The evolution of the European Union's 'fight against terrorism' discourse: Constructing the terrorist 'other'. Cooperation and Conflict, 49 (2), 212-238.
- Heath-Kelly, C., Jarvis, L. and Baker-Beall, C., 2014. Editors' introduction: Critical terrorism studies: Practice, limits and experience. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 7 (1), 1-10.
- Baker-Beall, C., 2013. Writing the threat of terrorism in Western Europe and the European Union: An interpretive analysis. Interpreting Global Security. 142-159.
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