TARTU ÜLIKOOL - UNIVERSITY OF TARTU

Anna Beitane,  is the Head of Digital Education Projects at the J. Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu in Estonia. With extensive experience in higher education and the public sector, she specializes in developing and implementing online and blended courses, teacher training for innovative teaching methods, and managing digital infrastructure. Anna is a multi-disciplinary MOOC author and recipient of the HISTA e-course quality mark label award. She has organized workshops on digitalization strategies and innovative teaching methods for diverse groups and has administered international projects funded by the European Commission, the Nordic Council of Ministers, and various other national and international foundations.

Oksana Belova-Dalton, PhD, is a research fellow in international relations at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. Her research interests include issues and structures of terrorism as well as Russia studies. Oksana has been a junior researcher in the field of terrorism and radicalisation at the Institute of Internal Security of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences (EASS) from 2020–2023 and has been teaching these topics to the MA students of the EASS and UT Skytte Institute. Her publications, projects, and supervised master’s theses are available at https://www.etis.ee/CV/Oksana_Belova-Dalton/eng/. As a junior researcher on terrorism and radicalisation at the EASS, Oksana has actively participated in the EU-organised events and projects within her area of expertise and is currently a member of an ISF project which focuses on the creation of educational materials on radicalisation and their teaching in a learner-friendly format. In 2022, Oksana commenced her studies at the University of St Andrews in the Master’s programme on Terrorism and Political Violence (MLitt).

Heidi Maiberg has a  PhD candidate from Royal Holloway, the University of London, where she specialised in terrorism studies. Her main areas of interest are deradicalisation, disengagement, rehabilitation, and reintegration interventions, methods used to support tertiary prevention, the role of ideology and voluntariness in those processes, and how interventions are evaluated. Her dissertation focused on how voluntary-based exit programmes in Europe and North America assess their impact. Her research interests also include preventing violent extremism through education and extremist developments in Estonia and other Baltic states. She is an experienced lecturer and general education teacher, has led national and international projects, and supported policy makers through consultation and working groups. Her MOOC created for education and youth workers “Radicalisation: Entering, Exiting, and Preventing Extremism” rec