Suraj Lakhani

Dr Suraj Lakhani is an academic at the University of Sussex. Alongside this, he holds the roles of Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, Research Fellow at VOX-Pol, and Ambassador for Women in Games. Suraj is also part of: the Steering Board of the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN); the Core Leadership Team at VOX-Pol; the Christchurch Call New Technologies Working Group and also sits on their Advisory Network; the Gaming Community of Practice Working Group at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT); the European Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism at the European Society of Criminology; and the UK Home Office’s Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) Research Network.

His research interests include video-gaming and violent extremism, violent extremism and the internet, radicalisation, and counter-terrorism policy. He has published numerous peer reviewed journal articles in internationally recognised academic publications, reports for national and international organisations such as the Home Office and the European Commission, and has a number of book chapters in edited collections. His most recent book, the Sociology of Violent Extremism, was last month published by Oxford University Press.

Suraj has acted as primary investigator, both individually and leading recognised international consortiums, on research projects funded by, for example, the UK’s Home Office, European Commission, Research England, Economic and Social research Council, British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust.