Professor Kevin McDonald joined Middlesex University as Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Criminology and Sociology in July 2013. He is a leader of international research networks around engagement and disengagement from violence, social and religious movements and the construction of civil societies, and the empowering role of digital technologies.
He has been a facilitator with the UK-based Council for At-Risk Academics, where he has worked on its Iraq Research Fellowship Programme, and has been a member of the Australian Attorney General’s Countering Violent Extremism Research Panel.