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 Peace Communication forthcoming in 2024.

Research Networks and Peer Review Work

Allysa is a current member of the Democracy & Trust and Digital Tech & Crime Clusters at the Centre for Digital Trust and Society (University of Manchester), the Conceptualising, Understanding, and Preventing Mixed Forms of Extremism (CUPME) Network (University of Liverpool), the AHRC Rethinking Research Ethics Network (University of Westminster), the VOX-Pol Next Generation Network (Swansea University), and the Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding (University of Sheffield). She is also a peer-reviewer for Crime, Media, Culture and Social Media + Society, and moderates both pre- and post-publication submissions to CrimRxiv. 

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. 

Allysa has demonstrated teaching expertise in areas related to terrorism and extremism, security studies, and behavioural research methods. 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) at Imperial College London. She also supervises MSc long projects at Imperial, with current projects including:

• Supremacist Sisterhoods: Exploring Women's Roles in Far-Right Online Extremism
• The Impact of CCTV on the Criminal Justice Outcomes of Violence Against Women and Girls