Recent engagements

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Yvonne McDermott Rees, Nick Waters, and Kaja Kowalczewska participated in a symposium on "Leveraging technology to respond to civilian harm in war: Algorithms, OSINT and Strategic Litigation" at Queen's University Belfast School of Law from 6-7- November 2025.

Nick Waters has delivered training to staff and students at Swansea University on 8 October and 18 November. Has also delivered workshops to Breaking the Silence on 15-19 September, Queen’s University Belfast on 22 October, and Kings College London on 24 October. He has trained EUAA judges as part of the Judicial Experts Pool on 4-5 December, delivered the opening presentation at Eurojust’s Genocide Network on 19 November, presented on Syrian chemical weapons at the Harvard-Sussex Program on 12 November, taken part in panels at the Frontline Club regarding open source information as evidence on 20 October, the Royal United Services Institute regarding North Korean biological weapons on 27 October and International Development Law Organisation regarding using open source information for accountability in Ukraine on 21 November.

Maryanne Brassil and Gabriela Jiga-Boy participated in the Society for Experimental  Social Psychology Annual Meeting (Lisbon, 16-19 October 2025). Gabriela co-chaired one of the two Research Spotlight sessions of the conference on ‘Rethinking Polarization: Insights into Mechanisms, Misperceptions, and Intervention’, exploring how social psychology continues to explore the forces that divide and unite us. This symposium brought together scholars from Swansea University as well as Cornell University, University of Cambridge, University of Bath, Heriot-Watt University, New York University, to explore polarization in the age of AI, honesty, self-affirmation, and partisanship, factors that increase or decrease partisan animosity, new perspectives on multiculturalism, misperceived social norms, and cues to encourage epistemic vigilance about human rights violations.

Maryanne Brassil and Yvonne McDermott Rees presented on "Trust in User-Generated Evidence: Insights from the TRUE Project" to the Centre for Operational Police Research at the University of Warwick on 1 December 2025.