Mark Williams

Mark Williams is a Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) postgraduate research student at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. His research explores the interface between the social sciences and electronic engineering and computer science focusing primarily on the criminal use of social media. This research includes examining ways of detecting and preventing inappropriate and criminal behaviour in social media, with particular emphasis on the mitigation, policing, and prosecution of offensive online expressions. Mark’s research interests include online hate, extremism and disinformation; cybercrime and criminality; internet/tech regulation; cyber warfare and peacekeeping; strategic communications and digital information operations.