Adam Edwards () is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. He is CI on the ESRC DSR project Digital Social Research Tools, Tension Indicators and Safer Communities: A Demonstration of the Cardiff Online Social Media ObServatory (COSMOS) and CI on the COSMOS JISC project focussing on computational social informatics using text mining and network analysis techniques to address social science research questions. He is interested in the conceptual and methodological implications of investigating digital social relations ().