DrVivian Gerrand

Dr Vivian Gerrand is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, where she is a co-investigator on the ARC-funded Anti-Women Online Movements Project. Vivian was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies think and do tank from 2021-2024 and was a chief investigator on the European Commission funded Horizon 2020 BRaVE (Building Resilience against Violent Extremism and Polarization) project from 2019–2021. Vivian has held prestigious fellowships at the European University Institute, Italy, including AEUIFAI, Endeavour and Max Weber Fellowships. She is an Executive member of the AVERT (Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalization to Terrorism) Network. With colleagues, Vivian recently completed a project on new forms of violent extremism in the post Covid-19 context for the Australian Government’s Department of Home Affairs. Vivian holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne which explored Somali belonging in Australia and Italy. Based on this study, she authored Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging (Melbourne University Press, 2016). Vivian has written Op-Eds for the ABC, The Conversation, Open Democracy and Overland and has appeared as an expert commentator for ABC Radio National, The Age, News.com and SBS.