Broderick McDonald

Broderick James McDonald is a Research Fellow at Kings College London’s XCEPT Research Programme and a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford where he researches political violence. armed conflict and terrorism.

Outside of this, he is a Visiting Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute’s Centre for Emerging Technologies and Security (CETaS) and a Research Affiliate with Oxford's Rothermere American Institute. Prior to this, Broderick was a Fellow with the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC) and Assistant Editor of the Perspectives on Terrorism academic journal. He was previously an Associate Fellow with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET) at Kings College London.

He currently serves on the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) Independent Advisory Committee and the Board of Advisors for American University's Repository for Open-Source Research & Analysis in Washington DC. Alongside his research, Broderick has advised policymakers, law enforcement, international prosecutors, and NGOs on international security threats.

Prior to this, Broderick served in various government roles and lived in the Middle East. Broderick's research and commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Al Jazeera, and The National Interest. 

He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Prime Minister Mackenzie King Scholar and Executive Editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal. He was previously a researcher with Stanford's Mapping Militants Project and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention. He has been named as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum and a Rising Leaders Fellow by The Aspen Institute (UK).

Research Interests

• Political Violence & Armed Conflict

• Non-State Actors & Rebel Groups

• Rebel Consolidation & Fragmentation

• Insurgencies & Small Wars

• Online Harms & AI Security

• Salafi-Jihadism /Jihadism

• Critical Security Studies

• Inter-Rebel Competition

• Rebel Governance

• Hybrid Warfare

• Extremism / Terrorism

• Foreign Terrorist Fighters

Teaching Experience

• Academic Tutor for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Undergraduate Students

• Academic Tutor for International Security and Innovation 301

• Academic Tutor for Comparative Government 201

• Academic Tutor for Politics in the Middle East 211

• Instructor for OSINT/SOCINT Methods Training (TaSM)

• Instructor for Red Teaming Methods (OxDEL CSO)

• Undergraduate Admissions Reviewer at HMC

• Academic Tutor for Balliol (BC), Corpus Christi (CCC), Harris Manchester (HMC), New (NC), St Catherine's (SCC)

• Academic Tutor and Assistant Dean at HM College, Oxford; Research Fellow at Kings College London

• Visiting Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute's Centre for Emerging Technology & Security (CETaS)

 Teaching Interests

• Peace & Conflict Studies

• International Security

• Politics in the Middle East

• Politics in the Sahel

• Critical Security Studies

• National Security Risks

• OSINT Methodologies

• Technology & Politics

• Fieldwork Safety

• Public Policy