Research Profile
Dr Matthew Williams
Research Grants
- 2013 - 16
- Identifying and Modelling Victim, Business, Regulatory and Malware Behaviours in a Changing Cyberthreat Landscape
- • Funded by EPSRC under the Global Uncertainties Consortia for Exploratory Research in Security (CEReS) call
- • £1.2M
- • Co-investigator with Rana, Burnap, Levi, Matthews (Cardiff), Clarke, Furnell, Ganis (Plymouth), Rajarajan (City), Wall (Durham) and Komisarczuk (UoW)
- 2013 - 14
- Cardiff University Research Leave Fellowship
- Funded Cardiff University for 12 months
- £13,000
- Principal Investigator
- 2013 - 14
- Social Media and Prediction: Crime Sensing, Data Integration and Statistical Modelling
- • Funded by ESRC under the National Centre for Research Methods Methodological Innovation Call
- • £194,138
- • Principal Investigator with Housley, Edwards, Burnap, Rana, Sloan (Cardiff) Procter (Warwick) and Voss (St Andrews)
- 2013 - 14
- Hate Speech and Social Media: Understanding Users, Networks and Information Flows
- • Funded by ESRC and Google
- • £124, 986
- • Co-investigator (with Housley, Edwards, Burnap, Rana, Procter, Voss and Knight)
- 2012 -13
- Supporting Empirical Digital Social Research for the Social Sciences with a Virtual Research Environment
- • Funded by JISC
- • £55, 519
- • Co Investigator (with Burnap, Housley, Rana, Edwards & Avis)
- 2012
- Requirements Analysis for Social Media Analysis Research Tools
- • Funded by the ESRC
- • £5, 000
- • Co Investigator (with Burnap, Housley, Rana, Edwards, Avis & Proctor)
- 2012
- Perpetrators of Hate Crime
- • Funded by WG
- • £22, 000
- • Co Investigator (with Innes and Tregidga)
- 2012
- Translating Tales of the Trickster
- • Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
- • £23, 901
- • Co Investigator (with Soyinka, Howitt-Dring & Fyfe)
- 2011-12
- Digital Social Research Tools, Tension Indicators and Safer Communities: a demonstration of the Cardiff Digital Research Platform
- • Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
- • £79,000
- • Principal Investigator (with William Housley, Adam Edwards, Malcolm Williams, Omer Rana and Nick Avis)
- 2010 - 13
- All Wales Hate Crime Project
- • Funded by the Big Lottery Fund
- • £407,000
- • Principal Investigator
- 2010
- eCrime Reduction Partnership Mapping Study
- • Funded by Nominet Trust
- • £50,000
- • Principal Investigator (with Levi, School of Social Sciences)
- 2006 - 07
- All Wales Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Survey
- • Funded by Welsh Assembly Government
- • £17,984 (RCSS694)
- • Principal Investigator (with Robinson, School of Social Sciences)
- 2005 - 06
- Methodological Issues in Qualitative Data Sharing and Archiving
- • Funded by ESRC
- • £84,645 (RCSS032/RES-346-25-3010)
- • Co-applicant with Coffey and Dicks, School of Social Sciences
- 2002 - 05
- Ethnography for the Digital Age
- • Funded by ESRC
- • £174,529 (RCSS021/H333250056)
- • Co-applicant with Coffey, Dicks and Renold, School of Social Sciences
Consultancy
- 2006
- E-crime Rapid Evidence Assessment
- • Funded by Welsh Assembly Government
- • £4,500
- • Principal Investigator
- 2003
- Analysis of the Stonewall Cymru Survey of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community in Wales
- • Funded by Stonewall Cymru
- • £5,568 (KSSS025)
- • Principal Investigator (with Robinson, School of Social Sciences)
- 2002
- Evaluation of an IT Mobile Youth Crime Intervention
- • Funded by Safer Cardiff
- • £7,018 (KSSS022)
- • Principal Investigator (with Robinson, School of Social Sciences)
Doctoral Research
- 1998 - 03
- Virtually Criminal: Crime, Community and Regulation within Virtual Worlds
- • Supervisors: Professor Paul Atkinson and Dr. Lesley Noaks
- • External Examiners: Professor David Wall and Professor Nigel Fielding