Charlie Winter is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London. He studies terrorism and insurgency, with a focus on online and offline strategic communication. He is pursuing a PhD in War Studies which examines how propaganda articulates meaning and, more broadly, exploring how militant groups cultivate creative approaches to governance and war. Alongside his work at ICSR, he is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in the Hague.

Winter’s work has been published by, among others, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Philosophia, the CTC Sentinel, The Atlantic, War On The Rocks, Jihadology and the BBC. He holds an undergraduate degree in Arabic from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London.