Dr Lynn Schneider is a Departmental Lecturer in Qualitative Methods and Political and Civil Conflict at the Department of Sociology. Before joining Oxford, she was a Lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs, a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague, and a Research Consultant at UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning.
Lynn has also worked as a language instructor for refugees and asylum seekers in Germany and as an educator in orphanages and foster-care settings in Germany and the West Bank.
Her research examines youth, childhood, and family life affected by political violence. She is the Principal Investigator of the PERSIST Project, which explores the experiences and needs of children in families affiliated with violent extremism and terrorism. Her earlier work focused on the role of education in preventing and countering radicalisation. Lynn’s research is strongly policy-oriented and has received funding from the European Commission and the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
Alongside academic conferences, she frequently contributes to roundtables and briefings hosted by international organisations and governmental agencies such as Wilton Park, the UK Homeland Security Group, UNODC, GIZ, the European Commission, and the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Lynn holds a doctorate in Education from the University of Oxford.
Research interests: terrorism, extremism, political violence, civil conflict, child development, children’s rights, family dynamics, education
