Dr William Allchorn is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Richmond, the American International University in London, and Senior Research Fellow at the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute, Anglia Ruskin University. He is an expert on far-right extremist social movements in the UK, Western Europe, and globally. His first book, Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK: Policy Responses to the Far Right was published by Routledge in 2018.
Recently, William’s research has shifted to studying comparative online extremism(s) and the violent far right threat landscape. His latest book, Moving beyond Islamist Extremism - Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Global Far Right, was published by Ibidem (an imprint of Columbia University Press) in early 2022.
