Deon Chorley

In 2014, Deon was awarded the Future Leader Scholarship for Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he would go on to complete his BSc in Psychology, with Risk, Insecurity & Terrorism. During this time, he represented the UK in the World Health Organisation (WHO) committee at the 2015 Oxford University International Model United Nations conference. Deon also received the inaugural CeDAS Global Leadership Award for a photo exhibition and presentation highlighting how the city of Berlin’s past influenced its attitude towards the European migrant crisis of the 2010’s. Deon would then continue at Royal Holloway, completing his MSc in Forensic Psychology.

While completing these degree programmes, Deon was invited to contribute to the Psychology Department’s student-staff working group on harassment, and he chaired the postgraduate student-staff committee for the School of Law and Social Sciences (2017-2018).

Deon’s current PhD focus lies within the area of lone actor terrorism and exploring psychological and sociological combinations that may elevate risk of perpetration. Deon hopes to contribute a qualitative approach to what recent quantitative empirical research has discovered relating to these psychosocial risk factors and protective factors, to enhance academic understanding and to support relevant services in ultimately reducing the risk of terror-related lone actor violence within our cities and local communities.