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Research fellow, Deakin University

Dr Vivian Gerrand is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, Deakin University. She was a Chief Investigator on the Horizon 2020 BRaVE (Building Resilience against Violent Extremism and Polarisation) project, led by European University Institute (2019-21). Vivian is a Member of the Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism (AVERT) Research Network Executive and Steeting Committees. She co-convenes the Australian Sociological Association's Cultural Sociology thematic group. She is the author of Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging (MUP 2016).

Experience

  • –present
    Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute

Education

  • 2013 
    University of Melbourne, PhD