At our next lunchtime seminar, Dr Federico Cerutti will illustrate how we can encompass efficient and effective uncertainty-aware learning and reasoning in probabilistic circuits and neural networks.

In this seminar, Professor Sinead Brophy will present the rationale and initial findings from a project aiming to bring together police data with NHS data to improve the ability to tackle domestic abuse.

Director of Research for IBM UK Dr Peter Waggett will outline the urgency for science and the potential to supercharge the scientific method with AI and Quantum Computing.

n this seminar, Dr Bettina Rottweiler will look out how such incidents of violent extremism point to a potential functional role of conspiracy theories and explores her own research looking at this relationship.

In this seminar, Professor Roger Whitaker will provide an overview of recent agent-based modelling addressing three important psychological concepts.

In this seminar, Professor Iain Brennan will describe the concept of coercive control and show why it is such a challenging issue for the criminal justice system.

n this seminar, Dr Emily Collins will outline research conducted across two studies. These explored how people make decisions when selecting IFTTT rules using a game-based experimental design, and whether priming them in different ways might promote greater consideration of the security and privacy implications of the rules they choose.

In this lunchtime seminar, Giandomenico Di Domenico will explore the processes through which vaccine misinformation originating from online marketplaces (e.g. Amazon.com) is legitimised and then spread through social media.

Professor Murray will be provide an overview on determinants of aggression and violence found in these four Birth Cohort Studies and consider whether “classic” determinants of violence identified in other countries replicate in this Brazilian setting.

In this seminar, Professor Jacob Shapiro will explore how the organizational structures of different foreign influence efforts are reflected in their content.

Professor Alun Preece, will describe an integrated CSU architecture that combines deep neural networks with symbolic learning and reasoning to address the problem of sparse training data.

Nora’s research develops an enhanced detection system that distinguishes different buzz types and focuses upon the role of opinion leaders.

Professor Peter Miller will explore a decade’s worth of work evaluating the impact of some of Australia’s major policy responses to alcohol-related violence and other harm

Professor Kate Daunt will examine the unintended impacts resulting from signage that seeks to mitigate the deviant behaviours of their customers.

Charis will consider the centrality of trust in the current divisive political climate. Using data from her research in post-conflict Northern Ireland, she will show how distrust is communicated by political and media elites and consider the implications.

Director of the Violence Research Group (VRG), Professor Simon Moore, will present the much-anticipated findings from the 30 month EDARA project.

In this seminar, UPSI Research Fellow, Trudy Lowe, will present the findings of a multi-method evaluation of the joint endeavour which sees call-handlers from emergency services in South Wales co-located in a shared control room in Bridgend.

This seminar will report on the current progress of the multi-disciplinary CSRI led Wales Safeguarding Repository (WSR) project, which has created a central repository for Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs), Mental Health Homicide Reviews (MHHRs) and Adult Practice Reviews (APRs).

The presentation will examine how and why a series of “soft facts”, such as rumours, conspiracy theories, and propaganda, took hold during the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign.

Cardiff University lecturers, Rebecca Scott and Robin Burrow, will deliver a presentation for their paper “Abused, beaten and branded: Chefs’ experiences of kitchen violence and why they choose to remain”. Their seminar will look at the mechanisms that condition willingness to endure harm in the workplace.

Members of the Violence Research Group (VRG) deliver a presentation for their paper “Behavioural Change and Alcohol-Fuelled Violence: A Field Experiment”. Their research uses a field experiment to assess whether alcohol-induced behavioural changes explain participants’ recent history of violence.

Do Alcohol Intoxication Management Services (Drunk Tanks, Safe Havens, Alcohol Treatment Centres) Work?

Professor Wilker Nóbrega is a Visiting Fellow from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. He conducts research in the field of cultural tourism in conservation units in the Atlantic Forest and the Brazilian Amazon biomes

Peter Pomerantsev is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, an author and TV producer.

How can the Police detect serial offenders if they cannot rely on physical forensic evidence?

For July’s Violence Research Group meeting we welcome PhD researcher Joseph Redfern