Journal Articles

Mathieson, Nicola. (2025). Explaining Variation in Foreign Fighter Returnee Pathways. Terrorism and Political Violence, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2025.254462

Channon, Lydia, Mathieson, Nicola. (2025). "Automated Detection of Mainstreamed Transphobic Content on YouTube." Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies 4 (1-3): 41-75. https://doi.org/10.57814/49jz-0663

Mathieson, Nicola. (2022) “Foreign Fighter Experience and Impact.” Small Wars & Insurgencies 33 (6): 927–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2022.2109888.

Mathieson, Nicola. (2021) “A Dangerous Balance: Indiscriminate Counterterrorism Measures and Mobilization against the State.” Journal of Global Security Studies 6 (4): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab014.

Mathieson, Nicola. (2018). “The Intersection of the Bosnian War, the Mujahideen, and Counterterrorism Measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Oxford Middle East Review 2 (1): 19–25.

Book Project

Mathieson, Nicola. “Integrating Foreign Fighters: Lessons from the Afghan Conflicts.” Under Contract

Book Chapters

Kearon-Warrilow, Emily, Nicola Mathieson, Sarah Arens, Jessica Lacy, Charlotte Mitchell, and Haleemah Mohammed. “Youth  Movements Against Fascist Intervention in the Spanish Civil War: Letters from the League of Nations Archive.” In Children, Youth, and the Making of International Society in the Twentieth Century. Bloomsbury, 2027 (forthcoming).

Mathieson, N. (2026). International Security. In: Stockemer, D., Sawyer, S.W., Gagnon, A. (eds) IPSA Companion to Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06918-4_191-1‍ ‍

Mathieson, Nicola, and Anna-Marie-Louise Tiessen. “Security.” In IPSA Companion to Political Science. Springer, Cham, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06918-4_52-1.

Jacob, Cecilia, and Nicola Mathieson. “Drone Warfare and the Human Protection Transnational Legal Order.” In Drones and Global Order. Routledge, 2021.

Pedagogical Research

Mathieson, Nicola. “Understanding and Improving the Experience of 2+2 Chinese Undergraduates at UK Universities.” Developing Academic Practice, 1, no. 5 (2026). (forthcoming)

Working Papers

Mathieson, Nicola and Chris Patane. “Early Warnings: Domestic and Gender-based Violence as a Predictor “of Lone-Actor Terrorism.”

Kiss, Annamaria, Alexander Mackenzie, Nicola Mathieson and Louise Tiessen. “Reconceptualising Foreign Fighters.”

Arens, Sarah and Nicola Mathieson. “Climate Change is the New COVID: Transnational Weather Conspiracies and the Platformed Rise of Far-Right Ecologies.”

Reports and Academic Blogs

Gagnon, Audrey, Ashton Kingdon and Nicola Mathieson. “C-REX & VOX-Pol PhD Summer School: The Importance of Visiting Memorial Sites for Researchers.” VOX - Pol, September 10, 2025. https://voxpol.eu/importance-of-visiting-memorial-sites-for-researchers/.

Gagnon, Audrey, and Nicola Mathieson. “C-REX & VOX-Pol PhD Summer School: Building Community Among PhD and ECR Scholars.” VOX - Pol, September 3, 2025. https://voxpol.eu/c-rex-vox-pol-phd-summer-school-building-community-among-phd-and-ecr-scholars/.

Gagnon, Audrey, and Nicola Mathieson. “Reflections from the 2025 Summer School on Studying Online Far-Right Extremism.” RightNow! (blog), August 6, 2025.

Mathieson Nicola, “User Journeys in Online Extremist Groups: An Introduction”. London: Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), July 2024. https://doi.org/10.18742/pub01-185

“Conspiracy Theories: A Guide for Members of Parliament and Candidates”. London: Antisemitism Policy Trust, May 2024 (Contributor)

Gagnon, Audrey, and Nicola Mathieson. “Working with Extremist Content Online: Strategies to Improve Researcher Wellbeing.” RightNow! (blog), August 2023.

Mathieson, Nicola. “Foreign fighter or foreign volunteer: what’s in a name?” Civil War Paths Sustaining Peace series. December, 2022.

Other Media

‘The Digitization of Terrorism.’ #cyberchat4all webinar, The Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) of the Organisation of American States, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvqF0ARHkVg

“Episode V: Would I Lie to You? The Weaponisation of Social Media.” Exploring Extremism Podcast, UNDP, 2022 https://pveportal.org/podcast/.