Dr Helen Innes

Research Fellow

: InnesH@cardiff.ac.uk

Helen Innes (PhD) is a Research Fellow at the Crime and Security Research Institute (CSRI) (www.cardiff.ac.uk/crime-security-research-institute) and the Universities’ Police Science Institute (www.upsi.org.uk). She is a graduate of Experimental Psychology (BSc Hons) and Social Research Methods (MSc) and began her career specialising in health inequality, the subject of her PhD thesis.

Helen’s current work contributes to Open Source Communications Analytics Research (OSCAR) at the Institute where she manages media monitoring outputs for this international programme of work.

During her career at the Institute, Helen’s work has significantly contributed to policy and practice in the following areas:

Disinformation
Counter-terrorism
Neighbourhood Policing
Behavioural Change

Date
Type

2021

Innes, H. and Innes, M. 2021. De-platforming disinformation: conspiracy theories and their control. Information, Communication and Society (10.1080/1369118X.2021.1994631)
Innes, M., Dobreva, D. and Innes, H. 2021. Disinformation and digital influencing after terrorism: spoofing, truthing and social proofing. Contemporary Social Science 16(2), pp. 241-255. (10.1080/21582041.2019.1569714)
Innes, M., Innes, H., Roberts, C., Harmston, D. and Grinnell, D. 2021. The normalisation and domestication of digital disinformation: on the alignment and consequences of far-right and Russian State (dis)information operations and campaigns in Europe. Journal of Cyber Policy 6(1), pp. 31-49. (10.1080/23738871.2021.1937252)

2020

Innes, M., Roberts, C., Lowe, T. and Innes, H. 2020. Neighbourhood policing: the rise and fall of a policing model. Clarendon Studies in Criminology. Oxford University Press.
Grinnell, D., Harmston, D., Innes, H., Innes, M. and Roberts, C. 2020. Normalisation et domestication de la désinformation numérique : les opérations informationnelles d’interférence et d’influence de l’extrême droite et de l’État russe en Europe. Herodote: Revue de Geographie et de Geopolitique 2-3(177/17), pp. 101-123.

2018

Innes, M. and Innes, H. 2018. Signal crimes, social reactions, and the future of environmental criminology. In: Bruinsma, G. J. and Johnson, S. D. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology. Oxford Handbooks Online Oxford: Oxford University Press, (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190279707.013.11)
Innes, M., Innes, H., Dobreva, D., Chermak, S., Huey, L. and McGovern, A. 2018. From minutes to months: a rapid evidence assessment of the impact of media and social media during and after terror events. Cardiff: Crime and Security Research Institute.

2017

Innes, H. and Innes, M. 2017. Murderous thoughts: the macro, micro and momentary in theorizing the causes and consequences of homicide. In: Brookman, F., Maguire, E. and Maguire, M. eds. The Handbook of Homicide. Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 3-20.

2015

Lowe, T., Innes, H. and Innes, M. 2015. The work of Welsh Government funded Community Support Officers. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Welsh Government. Available at: http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/research-deployment-work-500-welsh-government-funded-community-support-officers/?lang=en

2013

Innes, H. and Innes, M. 2013. Personal, situational and incidental vulnerabilities to ASB harm: a follow up study. Project Report. Cardiff: Universities Police Science Institute, Cardiff University.

2011

Innes, M., Roberts, C., Innes, H., Lowe, T. and Lakhani, S. 2011. Assessing the effects of prevent policing: a report to the Association of Chief Police Officers. Technical Report.

Research Interests:

Open Source Investigation and Analysis Techniques (OSINT) – use of social media data and monitoring tools to study the source, impact and travel of online disinformation in the UK and Europe.
Neighbourhood Policing – analysis of survey data on antisocial behaviour, public perceptions of the police and community cohesion for HMIC, the Welsh Government, ACPO and Gwent Police.
Counter-terrorism- analysis of social media data on real-time social reactions to terrorism (CREST) and co-author of the Minutes to Months Framework for understanding media and social media coverage of terrorism. Commissioned by the Five Country Ministerial (FCM) Countering Extremism Working Group
Behaviour change – use of communication interventions to change people's crime prevention behaviours and attitudes, in partnership with the Metropolitan Police Service, funded by the ESRC What Works Centre for Crime Reduction.

Have acted as a mentor at the Institute for our Policing Futures programme.

2009 to date: Research Fellow (formerly Associate), Cardiff University Crime and Security Research Institute. Specialising in:

Disinformation and open source intelligence
Secondary data analysis

2003 to 2006. Research Fellow, University of Surrey, Human Sciences.

“Public Attitudes to Genomics” (ESRC)
“Public Attitudes to Research Governance” (The Wellcome Trust).

2001-3: Senior Methodologist, Office for National Statistics, Titchfield.

Development of protocols for data protection and microdata release.

2002: ESRC funded PhD Sociology, University of Surrey.

“Connecting Gender and Ethnicity in an investigation of social inequalities in health”

1996 to 2001: Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey.

Health inequalities research (with Professor Sara Arber) for Health Education Authority and NHS Executive.

De-platforming Covid conspiracy theorists from Facebook has limited impact in reducing their influence, research finds

De-platforming Covid conspiracy theorists from Facebook has limited impact in reducing their influence, research finds

15 November 2021