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Professor of Political Psychology, Liverpool Hope University

Neil Ferguson is Professor of Political Psychology at Liverpool Hope University, a 2021/22 Fulbright Scholar working with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, and a recent Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme at Pembroke College, Oxford. His research and writings have explored political conflict and its psychological implications since he studied towards his PhD at the University of Ulster. Currently, his research focuses on the arc of terrorism, exploring engagement in, and disengagement from violent extremism.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Political Psychology, Liverpool Hope University