Research Fellow, International Relations, University of Aberdeen
Dr Samantha May is Research Fellow in the department of Politics and International Relations. She completed her AHRC funded doctorate at the University of Aberdeen in 2011 on Islamist ideologies and practices.
Dr May was awarded the Student Choice 'Most Inspirational Lecturer' of the Year Award for 2016 and 'Best Lecturer' award in 2014.. She was also nominated for the College of Arts and Social Sciences teaching exellence award for 2015 and 2014.
Are we really seeing the rise of a 'new jihad'? It's just not that simple
May 27, 2017 04:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
In a BBC interview just after the recent Manchester suicide bombing, French scholar Gilles Kepel offered a three-stage chronology of the development jihadi activism. The first stage he identified emerged in 1979, around...
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