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.

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] 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.