Media Commentator on Far and Extreme Right Politics, Activism and Terrorism

Description of impact

Paul Jackson regularly contributes to local, national and international news and media organisations to provide expertise on a wide range of issues related to the far and extreme right

Stakeholders/Beneficiaries

This includes: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio and television (Radio5 Live, Radio 4, BBC1, News 24); France 24; CNN; and Huffington Post.

How have research outputs led to this impact?

Paul Jackson is a historian who researches the British, American and wider international extreme right, from 1940s to the present day.

His work highlights that such extremism is driven by complex sub-cultures that combine fantasies of race war and creating a new world order with a social makeup that can be particularly vulnerable to acting in violent ways.

He has written on:

- British organisations including the English Defence League, the British National Party and National Action.

- American groups such as the American Nazi Party, the National Socialist Movement and Atomwaffen Division.

- International networks such as the World Union of National Socialists and the Identitarian movement.

- Far right terrorists, such as Anders Breivik, Darren Osborne and Thomas Mair

Given his broad background in developing cutting edge research in a complex field, he has become a go-to person for media outlets who want a commentator to contextualise a wide range of far right related phenomena and explain their underlying dynamics.

Impact status	Ongoing
Category of impact	Cultural impacts, 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (UN SDG)
Impact level	Mature Impact