Prof. Sandra Walklate

Her current work focuses on the intersections between violence against women and violent acts of terrorism. She has been working with Prof. Gabe Mythen for over decade on making sense of radicalization and the threat from terrorism.

Professor Sandra Walklate (B.A,. M.Litt., FAcSS) is currently Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at Liverpool University (UK) conjoint Chair of Criminology at Monash University (Melbourne). My current work focuses on the intersections between violence against women and violent acts of terrorism. I have been working with Prof. Gabe Mythen for over a decade on making sense of radicalization and the threat from terrorism. This work is reflected in her publications.

Blogs written by Prof. Sandra Walklate

When is a terrorist organisation not a terrorist organisation?

How big is the threat of ‘lone-wolf terrorism’ in Britain?

Prof. Sandra Walklate

The University of Liverpool

Co-Investigator

Key publications

2015 Contradictions of Terrorism: Security, Risk and Resilience (co-authored with Gabe Mythen) London: Routledge
2019 Lone Wolf Terrorism Through a Gendered Lens: Men Turning Violent or Violent Men Behaving Violently? with K. Fitz-Gibbon, JM Maher, J. McCulloch and J. McGowan. Critical Criminology 27; 437–450 (Awarded the Critical Criminology Division of the ASC prize for the best paper published in 2019)
2017 Assembling and deconstructing radicalisation in PREVENT: A case of policy-based evidence making? (with G Mythen and E.J. Peatfield) Critical Social Policy 37(2):180-201
2016 Fractured lives, splintered knowledges: making sense of the terrorist attacks in Paris, January 2015. (With Gabe Mythen) Critical Criminology 24; 333–346
2016 Counter-terrorism and the reconstruction of (in)security: divisions, dualisms, duplicities (with Gabe Mythen) British Journal of Criminology. 56 (6): 1107–1124