Stuart Croft (born 7 March 1963) is a British
political scientist and the
Vice-Chancellor of
Warwick University, a position he has held since 2016. He received a
Ph.D. from
Southampton University and worked at
Birmingham University before joining Warwick in 2007 as Professor of International Security. Croft has published widely in the field of international security and
counter-terrorism and is a member of the
Academy of Social Sciences
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and a fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts
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.
Group chat incident
On 1 February 2019, Croft published an open letter on the Warwick University website in response to an incident on campus via a group messenger application that resulted in the temporary suspension of 11 individuals. The letter, which does not mention the victims, was criticised in a response on ''The Boar'' – a student-run news website that first publicised the incident. Croft later published a follow-up indicating that two of the men whose ban was lifted would not return.
Selected publications
*''Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006.
* ''Securitizing Islam'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.
References
1963 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Academics of the University of Warwick
Alumni of the University of Southampton
British political scientists
Counterterrorism theorists
Vice-Chancellors of the University of Warwick
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