Jennifer Dowling is a PhD candidate within the research group Terrorism and Political Violence. Jennifer’s PhD research project focuses on understanding why individuals do not cross the threshold to become involved in various forms of political violence. By adopting a qualitative approach, her project focuses specifically on the Northern Irish case study and examines how various protective factors dissuaded individuals from becoming involved in political violence

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Jennifer Dowling is a PhD Candidate within the Terrorism and Political Violence research group at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA). Her current PhD research is focused on better understanding why individuals do not cross the threshold to become involved in various forms of political violence. Before pursuing her PhD, she worked as a tutor on the Bachelor Security Studies programme, in which she taught on a range of security-related topics. Prior to that she worked as a researcher at the International Centre for Counter Terrorism (ICCT) as well as ISGA, where she worked on a range of topics related to (counter-) terrorism, with specific focus on counter-terrorism strategic communications.