Lynn Davies is Professor of International Education at the University of Birmingham and Director and Head of Research  of  ConnectFutures CIC.  Her interests are in education and conflict, extremism and radicalisation and she has worked and researched in a number of conflict-affected contexts.  Currently she is busy evaluating the training programmes of ConnectFutures in media literacy, fake news and extremism, for example the interventions with young people and professionals after riots and disturbances.