Imran Awan is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University.  He is an expert on Muslim communities, cyber hate, counter-terrorism and policing issues.  He is the co-editor of 'Policing Cyber Hate, Cyber Threats and Cyber Terrorism' (2012) and 'Extremism, Counter-Terrorism and Policing' (2013) and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, the Guardian, the New Statesman, Al Jazeera and the Independent.