Dr Aaron Winter is Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Race and Anti-Racism) and Director of the Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities (CASEI) at Lancaster University, where he has held these tenures since 2022. Prior to this tenure, he taught at the University of Brighton, University of Sussex, Abertay University and the University of East London. His research is on the far right with a focus on racism, historical change, mainstreaming, counterextremism and counterterrorism. He is co-editor of the books Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror (Routledge 2010), Reflexivity in Criminological Research: Experiences with the Powerful and Powerless (Palgrave 2014), Historical Perspectives on Organised Crime and Terrorism (Routledge 2018) and Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge 2020), and co-author, with Aurelien Mondon, of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso 2020). He has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Journal of Political Ideologies, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Sociological Research Online and Women and Performance, as well as openDemocracy, The Independent, Discover Society, Novara Media and Jacobin. He has advised a range of organisations, governmental bodies, local councils and educational institutions on issues related to racism and the far right, and has frequently appeared in the media.  

He is co-editor of the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and the Manchester University Press (MUP) series Racism, Resistance and Social Change, and sits on the board of Trustees of the Sociological Review Foundation, the editorial board of Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the organising committee of the Reactionary Politics Research Network (RPRN). He previously served as a Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and co-convenor of the BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group.