DrVivian Gerrand

2021 Interview on SBS World News about the anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine mandate protests, 22 September.

2021 Interview for the Age article: 'The price of "freedom": How anti-lockdown protest leaders make money from the movement,' 12 December.

2017 Interview by Hodan Nalayeh about Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging, for Integration TV, Toronto, 27 February.

2016 Interview by Francesca Rizzoli about Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging, for SBS Radio Italian Programme, Melbourne, 14 September.

2016 Interview about Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging with Meecham Philpott, ABC Tropical North, 16 June.

2016 No longer afraid to come out of the locker. Going berko for burkinis. Overland, 25 August.

2015 Reframing Australia, Overland, 14 July.

2015 Zaky Mallah: A cautionary tale of radicalisation and the need for belonging, The Conversation, 29 June.

Visiting Fellow (BRaVE Project), Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute

Honorary Research Associate, Research Unit in Public Cultures, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne

Horizon 2020 BRaVE Project Grant (2019-21)

Max Weber Fellowship, 2017-18

Australia Awards Endeavour Research Fellowship, 2017

AEUIFAI Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015

2016 Re-orientando il nostro sguardo. Aylan Kurdi e Phan Thi Kim Phuc: catalizzatori dellospitalita? (Reorienting our gaze. Aylan Kurdi and Phan Thi Kim Phuc: catalysts for hospitality?) In the panel: La comunicazione nellera we the media. Pratiche di resistenza e ospitalita. (Communication in a we the media era. Practices of Resistance and Hospitality.) Escapes, Laboratori di studi critici sulle migrazioni forzate. University of Bari, 23-24 June (with Asha Sabrie).

2015 Post-colonial Italian Literature: A Poetic Citizenship? Bridges Across Cultures: International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, The International Studies Institute, Florence, 2-5 July (with Piera Carroli).

2013 Donne di Roma. Belonging in the digital paintings of Fabrice de Nola. In the panel: Cultural Studies. ACIS Seventh Biennial Conference: Re-imagining Italian Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, 4-6 December.

2013 Igiaba Scegos La mia casa e dove sono. In the panel: Telling Her Story: Autobiographies by Italian Female Authors. Northeast Modern Language Association, Tufts University, Boston, 21-24 March.

2012 Identity as a Process of Taking Place: Understanding Somali Belonging in Melbourne. In the panel: Belonging and Affect. Place and Displacement Conference. Victoria University, Melbourne, 21-23 November (with Yusuf Omar).

2011Representations of Somali (Dis)location in Italy and Australia. In the panel: Cultural Belongings. CSAA Annual Conference, Cultural ReOrientations and Comparative Colonialities. International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding: University of South Australia, Adelaide, 22 24 November.

2009 Imagining Somali Identities in Australia and Italy. The Second Imagined Australia International Research Forum: Borders, theory, art and power, University of Bari, 17-19 June.

Coordinator of Stream 2, Building resilience against social harms including violent extremism, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies

Co-Convenor of the Cultural Sociology thematic group, TASA

Member of the AVERT (Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism) Research Network Executive and Steering Committees

Member, The Australian Sociological Association