Valarie Findlay
Valarie Findlay is currently in her second year of the DSocSci program at Royal Roads University. Born in Ottawa, Canada and having spent many years in the US, she has a Master of Terrorism Studies, a Master of Sociology and is currently writing her doctoral thesis on ideological violence and its synthesis to social figurations and conditions using Norbert Elias’s Civilizing Process theory as a theoretical foundation. For the past seven years she has focused her academics efforts in becoming a “student” of Elias’s main theory and interpreting and applying his concepts from his major texts beyond the Civilizing Process. With her prime interest in social group behaviour, Valarie shifted her focus from individual psychological elements that influence violent behaviors in an effort to develop more effective social programs and policy from a preventative lens, rather than as a response.
On the professional side, Valarie has worked in US and Canadian national security and intelligence for over twenty years and has specialized in cybersecurity and technologies as tools in ideological movements and recruitment. She sits on several North American intelligence, cyber and law enforcement committees and has extensively studied various investigative and interviewing disciplines, such as inductive, psychological, physiological and predictive profiling. As a past member of the Canadian Assoc. Chiefs of Police/CATA, eCrime Cyber Council, the American Society for Evidence-Based Policing (ASEBP), AFCEA Cyber Committee (Washington DC) and research fellow with the National Police Foundation, she has had the opportunity to collaborate on applied science from her academic work, including navigating commercialization and the US patent and trademark process successfully for her intelligence software, TIGIR.
