Allysa is a President's Doctoral Scholar and current PhD candidate in Criminology. Since beginning her academic career, she's focused the bulk of her research into misogynist incels and the insights gleaned from their behaviour online. Her current work traces the narratives present in the stories posted to several high-profile incel forums, with the aim of uncovering how these stories help legitimise instances of identity-based harm and provide additional knowledge about the pathways into - and out of - inceldom. A critical review of incel-focused research from her doctoral work was recently published in Crime, Media, Culture
(2023), with additional publications in the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence (2nd Edition) and the Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peacebuilding Communication forthcoming in 2024. She currently teaches undergraduates on the Trust and Security in a Digital World course offered by Manchester's University College for Interdisciplinary Learning (UCIL), and postgraduates on the MSc in Security and Resilience at the Institute for Security Science and Technology (ISST), Imperial College London. 

Allysa's research interests centre on the complex interplays between technology, harm, and violence, with a specific focus on male supremacist and extremist groups operating in the online sphere, identity-based harm, and gender-based violence. Alongside this, she's interested in ethical approaches to conducting research in public-facing online spaces, and adopts an intersectional feminist praxis in her work.