About

Heidi Maiberg is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London specialising in terrorism studies. Her main areas of interest are deradicalisation and disengagement of extremists. Her research focuses on how impact of the programmes is assessed in voluntary-based deradicalisation and disengagement programmes in Europe and Northern America. She obtained her MA from University of Tartu where she researched methods that support deradicalisation and disengagement of Islamists in Europe.

Heidi has teaching experience in general education and higher education. At Royal Holloway, she taught sociology of religion. She has been an associate lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London where she was teaching a module titled ‘Surveillance, Intelligence, and Control’. Previously she as also been a member of departmental research ethics committee at Royal Holloway and thought history and religious studies in basic and upper secondary schools in Estonia. She has work experience from public and third sector as a team member and project manager. In 2017, she worked at Estonian Ministry of the Interior as the coordinator of the asylum team during Estonian presidency of the European Union Council.

This MOOC is a part of a wider project titled “Tackling Sensitive Topics in a Classroom”. The objective of this project is to gather the expertise of four countries facing similar challenges, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Estonia, and to develop guidance material for educators from universities and general education. With the project guidelines, toolbox, e-modules, e-courses and MOOC-s will be created for teachers, students of pedagogy, university personnel and social workers. Partners: University of Tartu (leading partner), Central European University, University of University of Hradec Králové, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)