Max Taylor

Max Taylor is Professor of International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) in the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews; prior to that, he was Professor of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, Ireland from 1983 to 2006. He is a Legal and Forensic Psychologist with wide international experience of research and consultancy in the area of terrorism and terrorist behaviour and Internet crime, including consultancies for Government and Private companies, and legal and forensic court work. He has a particular commitment to interdisciplinary and inter-professional approaches to addressing the conceptual and practical problems.

His current research interests include the role of the new technologies in terrorism, Sudan and Darfur, the exploration of psychological processes in the emergence of terrorist behaviour, and the psychological and behavioural context to the emergence of radical Islamic terrorism. He has been a member of a number of government and international advisory committees. He is currently Director of e-Learning activities in the CSTPV and is responsible for the innovative Certificate in Terrorism Studies offered jointly with Informa, and for the development of the elearning Postgraduate Diploma and M.Litt. in Terrorism Studies.

His books include The Terrorist (1988), The Fanatic (1991), Terrorist Lives (with E. Quayle: 1994), Future Developments of Terrorism (with J. Horgan: 2000), Child Pornography: An Internet Crime (with E.Quayle: 2003), ''ONLY PICTURES? Therapeutic work with Internet sex offenders''. (with Quayle, E., Erooga, M, Wright, L., and Harbinson, D. (2006), Viewing child pornography on the Internet. Understanding the offence, managing the offender, helping the victims (with E. Quayle: 2005).