Stuart Croft (political scientist)

Stuart Croft FRSA (born 7 March 1963) is a British political scientist and the Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University, a position he has held since 2016.^[2] He received a Ph.D. from Southampton University^[3] and worked at Birmingham University before joining Warwick in 2007 as Professor of International Security. Croft has published widely in the field of international security and counter-terrorism and is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.^[4]

Stuart Croft FRSA
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2016
Preceded by	Nigel Thrift
Personal details
Born	(1963-03-07) 7 March 1963 (age 62)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Southampton University
Salary	£354,000 (2021–22)[1]
Website	warwick.ac.uk/services/vco/exec/vc/
Academic work
Discipline	Political Science
Sub-discipline	International Security, Counter Terrorism
Institutions	Warwick University, Birmingham University

Group chat incident

Further information: Warwick University § Rape chat incident

On 1 February 2019, Croft published an open letter on the Warwick University website in response to an incident on campus via a group messenger application that resulted in the temporary suspension of 11 individuals.^[5] The letter, which does not mention the victims, was criticised in a response on The Boar – a student-run news website that first publicised the incident.^[6] Croft later published a follow-up indicating that two of the men whose ban was lifted would not return.^[7]

Selected publications

• Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006.
• Securitizing Islam, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.