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. Her work has been featured in GNET Insights, CREST Security Reviews, and Tech Against Terrorism. 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 Conflict and Peace Communication and the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence (2nd Edition) forthcoming in 2024 and 2025.

Research Networks and Peer Review Work

Allysa is a Fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. She's also a current member of the Democracy & Trust and Digital Tech & Crime Clusters at the Centre for Digital Trust and Society (University of Manchester), the Terrorism and Political Violence Network (University of St. Andrews), 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 of original research articles and methodological contributions for various journals, including:

• Crime, Media, Culture
• Social Media + Society
• Women's Studies in Communication
• Journal of Gender Studies
• Journal of European Politics and Gender

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 a reflexive 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 past projects including:

• Supremacist Sisterhoods: Exploring Women's Roles in Far-Right Online Extremism (2024)
• The Impact of CCTV on the Criminal Justice Outcomes of Violence Against Women and Girls (2024)