DrVanessa Barolsky

Honorary Fellow

Faculty of Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Honorary Fellow
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 68140 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

truth commissions

decoloniality

reconciliation

transitional justice

social conflict

social cohesion

Projects
The Role of Truth-Telling in Australian Reconciliation: Addressing a Colonial
Legacy?

Professor Yin Paradies, Dr Vanessa Barolsky, Andrew Meehan (2021-2023: $25 000
Reconciliation Australia; $53,000, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive
Societies (CRIS), Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria)

Seminar Series: Decolonising Truth-telling in Australia (2020 $5000, ADI
research stream People, Place and Heritage).
https://ipcs.org.au/recording/decolonising-truth/

Seminar Series: Decolonising Truth-Telling Globally (2021: $5000, ADI research
stream People, Place and Heritage) https://ipcs.org.au/event/decolonising-
truth-globally/

National Mapping of Support Services for the Directory of Intervention Support
Services

Prof Michele Grossman, Dr Vanessa Barolsky, Dr Hass Dellal (2018: $16,850;
2017: $275,191)

Role of Communities in Reintegrating Children, Women and Family Returnees From
Conflict Zones

Prof Michele Grossman and Dr Vanessa Barolsky (2018: $47,272; 2017: $96,363)

Preventing violent extremism and building youth cohesion through creative
production of grassroots online counter-narratives: apilot intervention and
impact evaluation

Dr Matteo Vergani, Dr Vanessa Barolsky, Dr Muhammad Iqbal (2018-19: $73 000)

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    The role of truth-telling in Australian reconciliation: Addressing a colonial legacy ?
    15 Feb 2023 - 15 Apr 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vanessa Barolsky
    Reconciliation Australia Limited - $10,000.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Truth-telling in Australia: addressing a colonial legacy
    28 Apr 2021 - 30 Jun 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Reconciliation Australia Limited - $25,000.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Evaluation of the New South Wales (NSW) Community Advice and Support Service (CASS)
    22 Jul 2019 - 22 Aug 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vanessa Barolsky
    Australian Multicultural Foundation - CONTR2019/01334 - $10,000.00
  • GRANT
    Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS)
    29 Oct 2018 - 30 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Premier and Cabinet Vic - $3,196,087.00
  • GRANT
    Preventing violent extremism and building youth cohesion through creative production of grassroots online counter-narratives: a pilot intervention and impact evaluation
    20 Apr 2018 - 19 Apr 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Premier and Cabinet Vic - $73,813.12
  • GRANT
    National Mapping of Support Services for the Directory of Intervention Support Services
    22 Jun 2017 - 31 Dec 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • AM MG,
    • Barolsky V,
    • Dellal H
    Attorney-General's Department - $292,041.77