AVERT Members

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY
LOWY INSTITUTE

Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University, Project Director, Lowy Institute and AVERT Research Network Co-Convenor

Research Area Keywords: Violent extremism; Political violence, Online; CVE; Radicalisation; Authoritarianism; Counterterrorism; Policy; Jihadism; Right wing Anti-government; conspiracy and disinformation; Democratic resilience.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor and Head of Department, Department of Security Studies and Criminology, AVERT Research Network Co-Convenor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Violent extremism; Countering violent extremism; Jihadism; Internet; Social media; Right-wing extremism; Left-wing extremism; Religion; South Asia.

Coordinator, AVERT Research Network

Research Area Keywords: Hateful extremism; conflict resolution; community-based approaches; prevention programs; violent extremism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

HDR Coordinator, AVERT Research Network

Research Area Keywords: Countering/preventing violent extremism, hate prevention, radicalisation, far right extremism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY
LOWY INSTITUTE

Senior Research Fellow, and Co-Convenor, AVERT Research Network

Research Area Keywords: Violent extremism; Political violence, Online; CVE; Radicalisation; Authoritarianism; Counterterrorism; Policy; Jihadism; Right wing Anti-government; conspiracy and disinformation; Democratic resilience.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor and Head of Department, Department of Security Studies and Criminology, AVERT Research Network Co-Convenor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Violent extremism; Countering violent extremism; Jihadism; Internet; Social media; Right-wing extremism; Left-wing extremism; Religion; South Asia.

Coordinator, AVERT Research Network

Research Area Keywords: Hateful extremism; conflict resolution; community-based approaches; prevention programs; violent extremism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Professor of Global Islamic Politics

Research Area Keywords: Radicalisation, recruitment and disengagement; Countering violent extremism; Salafi jihadi terrorism; Indonesia; Southeast Asia; Islamic thought; Islam and civil society; Democracy and reform in the Muslim world.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Radicalisation; Mental Health; Risk Assessment; Grievance.

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

Senior Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Radicalisation; Climate Change; LGBTQ+.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Senior Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Community resilience; Preventing violent extremism; Disaster risk reduction; Intergovernmental relations; Public sector governance; Counter-terrorism policy; Emergency management; Multicultural affairs.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Alternative narratives; Image-making; Militant wellness; Polarisation; Radicalisation; Recruitment; Resilience.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Professor and Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience

Research Area Keywords: Resilience to violent extremism; Preventing and countering violent extremism; Women and terrorism; Terrorist recruitment; Cultural semiotics of terrorism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Social media; News media; Political violence; Political economy; Counterterrorism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Hate crime; Hate speech; Extremism; Political violence; Terrorism; P/CVE; Evaluation.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Senior Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Far-right extremist culture and fiction; white supremacy and racism; video games; medievalism; popular culture; conspiracy theories.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY
LOWY INSTITUTE

Senior Research Fellow and Co-Convenor, AVERT Research Network

Research Area Keywords: Violent extremism; Political violence, Online; CVE; Radicalisation; Authoritarianism; Counterterrorism; Policy; Jihadism; Right wing Anti-government; conspiracy and disinformation; Democratic resilience.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor and Head of Department, Department of Security Studies and Criminology, AVERT Research Network Co-Convenor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Violent extremism; Countering violent extremism; Jihadism; Internet; Social media; Right-wing extremism; Left-wing extremism; Religion; South Asia.

Coordinator, AVERT Research Network

Research Area Keywords: Hateful extremism; conflict resolution; community-based approaches; prevention programs; violent extremism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Professor and Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience

Research Area Keywords: Resilience to violent extremism; Preventing and countering violent extremism; Women and terrorism; Terrorist recruitment; Cultural semiotics of terrorism.

GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY

Professor of Criminology

Research Area Keywords: Policing and Procedural Justice; Counter-terrorism; Conspiracy Theories; Anti-government Sentiment; Extremism.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Dissent; Right-wing extremism; Citizenship; Mobilisation; Radicalism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Masculinities; Political Violence; Religious Violence; Extremism; Populism; Far-Right; Salafi Jihadism; Male Supremacism; Incels; Mens Rights Activism; Protest; Policy.

UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, UK

Professor of Youth and Policy

Research Area Keywords: Preventing Violent Extremism; Youth Racial Tensions; Education; Anti-racism; Enactment of Policy.

UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

PhD Candidate

Research Area Keywords: Human Security; Religion; Religious Education; Education for Citizenship; Extremism; Terrorism; Radicalization; Counter-radicalization; Surveillance & Policing.

NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE, ABU DHABI

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Radicalization; Religious extremism; Preventing violent extremism through education.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Professor

Research Area Keywords: Political Islam; International relations; Middle East politics

Cardiff Metropolitan University

Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Extremism; Autism; Mental Health; Neurodiversity.

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

Senior Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Extremism, Securitization; News & social media; Journalistic practice; Strategic communication.

UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD, ENGLAND

Reader (Associate Professor) in Forensic Psychology

Research Area Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Lone-actor terrorism; Radicalisation; Mass shooters; Criminal justice system.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Clinical Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Disengagement; Re-engagement; Recidivism; Reintegration; Political behaviour; Political violence; Nationalism; Ethnic conflict; Rebel governance.

UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON

Lecturer in Criminology

Research Area Keywords: Prevention, Gender, Video Games, Internet, Policy.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Associate Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords:
Social conflict; Social cohesion; Truth processes; Transitional justice.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Professor of Global Islamic Politics

Research Area Keywords: Radicalisation, recruitment and disengagement; Countering violent extremism; Salafi jihadi terrorism; Indonesia; Southeast Asia; Islamic thought; Islam and civil society; Democracy and reform in the Muslim world.

GRIFFITH INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY

Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Violent extremism; risk factors; radicalisation; extremist profiles; PIRA.

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism, women, children, conspiracy theory, gender, radicalization

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

Assistant Professor

Research Area Keywords: Radicalisation; Terrorism; Extremism; Propaganda; Counter-radicalisation.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Organised crime; Illicit networks; Social network analysis.

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY

Professor

Research Area Keywords: Social movements; Mobilization; Political violence; Anti-minority activism; Far right; Counter-terrorism; Violence prevention.

CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

Lecturer of Terrorism Studies

Research Area Keywords: Right wing extremism; Terrorism; Australia; Ideology; Identity; Left wing extremism; Salafi Jihadism.

MONASH UNIVERSITY

Academic

Research Area Keywords: Islam; Muslims; Islamophobia; Social cohesion; Muslim women; Sexism; Lived religion.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Professor of Global Islamic Politics

Research Area Keywords: Radicalisation, recruitment and disengagement; Countering violent extremism; Salafi jihadi terrorism; Indonesia; Southeast Asia; Islamic thought; Islam and civil society; Democracy and reform in the Muslim world.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Manager of the Jill Dando Institute Research Lab

Research Area Keywords: Grievance-fuelled violence; Risk and protective factors; Risk assessment and management.

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Deradicalisation; CVE; Formers; Reintegration.

LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, ICCT

Assistant Professor

Research Area Keywords: Women; Children; Gender; Terrorism; Counterterrorism; Violent extremism; Foreign fighters.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Radicalisation; Mental Health; Risk Assessment; Grievance.

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Professor of Publishing and Communications

Research Area Keywords: Online extremism; Hate speech; Culture wars.

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

Senior Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Radicalisation; Climate Change; LGBTQ+.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor and Head of Department, Department of Security Studies and Criminology, AVERT Research Network Co-Convenor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Violent extremism; Countering violent extremism; Jihadism; Internet; Social media; Right-wing extremism; Left-wing extremism; Religion; South Asia.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Senior Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Community resilience; Preventing violent extremism; Disaster risk reduction; Intergovernmental relations; Public sector governance; Counter-terrorism policy; Emergency management; Multicultural affairs.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (MAGDALEN COLLEGE)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism, Radicalisation, Far-right extremism, Psychological predictors, Identity fusion, Violence risk assessment

PHILIPPINE PUBLIC SAFETY COLLEGE NATIONAL POLICE COLLEGE

Professor of Financial Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime

Research Area Keywords: Women involved in terrorism PCVE.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Extremism; Terrorism; Middle East politics; Islamic radicalism.

DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Counterterrorism; Violent Extremism; Conspiracy theories; Critical Terrorism Studies; Content Takedowns.

VICTORIA POLICE

Psychologist

Research Area Keywords: Risk and threat assesssment; Intelligence led policing; VE and GFV typologies.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Alternative narratives; Image-making; Militant wellness; Polarisation; Radicalisation; Recruitment; Resilience.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Researcher

Far-right, conspiracism, social media, social movements, terrorism .

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Professor of Security and Crime Science

Research Area Keywords: Risk assessment and management; Radicalisation; Threat assessment; Lone-actor terrorism

SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY

PhD Candidate

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Violent extremism; Radicalisation; International Law; Human Rights; Artificial Intelligence, Criminal Justice.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Professor and Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience, and Co-Convenor, AVERT Research Network

Research Area Keywords: Resilience to violent extremism; Preventing and countering violent extremism; Women and terrorism; Terrorist recruitment; Cultural semiotics of terrorism.

SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

PhD Candidate

Research Area Keywords: Forensic mental health; Criminal offending; Offender risk assessment and management; Human rights-based law.

WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY

Adjunct Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Religion; Identity; Violence; CVE; South Asia; Bangladesh.

NSW PREMIER’S DEPARTMENT/
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Senior Associate / Adjunct Fellow & Sessional Lecturer

Research Key Areas: Australian white nationalism and ideology, white nationalist phenomenology and digital subculture, Great Replacement theory violent extremism, ideological mass shooters.

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Distinguished University Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism, violent extremism, political violence, forensic psychology.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Associate Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Trust; Community resilience; Digital inclusion.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY / GRONINGEN UNIVERSITY

Cotutelle PhD Candidate

Research Area Keywords: Right-wing violent extremism; Online extremism; Socio-techincal systems; 'Online extremist ecosystems'.

GOUCHER COLLEGE

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorist behavior; Disengagement; Reintegration and rehabilitation; Deradicalization; Radicalization.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Violent extremism; Counter terrorism; Radicalisation; Psychology; Behavioural science.

UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER

Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Risk management, Security, Hybrid threats.

INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS AND PEACE

Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Counter-terrorism; Radicalization/deradicalization; Far-right extremism; Salafi-jihadism; Violent extremist groups in the Sahel.

KOHAT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, PAKISTAN

Assistant Professor

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Terrorist groups; Extremism; Economics of terrorism; Radicalisation.

COMPETENCE CENTRE AGAINST EXTREMISM IN BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG

Researcher

Reseach Area Keywords: Far-right terrorism; Radicalization; Deradicalization; P/CVE; Jihadism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Predictive technologies; Preventive detentions; Human rights; Fact finding; Cognitive biases; Organisational biases.

UNVERSITY OF SALFORD

Lecturer

Research Area Keyords: Recruitment; Propaganda; Narratives; Marketing; Disinformation.

UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

Senior Lecturer

Researh Area Keywrds: Video-gaming and violent extremism; Terrorism; Radicalisation; PVE; Counter-terrorism policy.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism financing; Counter-terrorism; Preventing/Countering violent extremism; Women in terrorism and terrorist financing.

AARHUS UNIVERSITY

Professor

Research Area Key Words: Violent extremism; Lone-actor terrorism; Online hostility; Radicalisation; Prevention.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Countering violent extremism, Counternarratives, Technology.

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

Professor in Psychology

Research Area Keywords: Identity; Decision-making; Social influence; Group norms; (De)radicalisation.

SWANSEA UNIVERSITY

Professor

Research Area Keywords: Counterterrorism, Criminal law, Regulation, Human rights, Terrorism online

AMAN FOUNDATION; BIRCHGROVE LEGAL

Legal and policy advisor; Solicitor

Research Area Keywords: Motive; terrorism law; dehumanisation; borderline content; disinformation

UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, UK

Senior Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Radicalisation; Deradicalisation; Countering violent extremism; Social movements; Protest.

QUEENSLAND CORRECTIVE SERVICES

Specialist Psychologist - Countering Violent Extremism

Research Area Keywords: Threat, Violent extremism, Violence, Mental illness, Conspiracy.

GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY

Professor of Criminology

Research Area Keywords: Policing and Procedural Justice; Counter-terrorism; Conspiracy Theories; Anti-government Sentiment; Extremism.

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Far-right civil society; Far-right organisational networks; Religious extremism.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Dissent; Right-wing extremism; Citizenship; Mobilisation; Radicalism.

MONASH UNIVERSITY

Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Insurgency; Gender; Women; Political violence; Guerrilla warfare; Organised crime.

UNIVERSITY OF MALTA

Affiliate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Risk Assessment of Violent Extremism and Terrorism; Fairness in risk assessment of violent extremism; Screening Analysis of Radicalization and Extremism.

MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY-ILIGAN

Research Dissemination Director

Research Area Keywords: Youth; Mindanao; Challenging violent extremism; memory.

NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE

Professor

Research Area Keywords: History of Strategic Thought, Propaganda Theory, Counter-insurgency Theory, History of the Malayan Emergency (1948-60), Terrorist Motivations and Ideology, Counter-terrorism Strategy

UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS, MADRID

Professor

Research Area Key Words: Radicalization; Terrorism; Jihadism; ETA.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Social media; News media; Political violence; Political economy; Counterterrorism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Masculinities; Political Violence; Religious Violence; Extremism; Populism; Far-Right; Salafi Jihadism; Male Supremacism; Incels; Mens Rights Activism; Protest; Policy.

SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Youth Justice; Pathways into offending; Interventions and Programming; Culturally and Linguistically Diverse young people; Cross-cultural Mental Health.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

Professor and Senior Industry Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Violent extremism; Risk assessment; Practitioner training; Disengagement from extremism; Emotions.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

Professor of Sociology

Research Area Keywords: Disengagement from violent extremism; Lone actor terrorism; Anti-racism; Social inclusion; Sport.

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Peace and security; Violence prevention; Countering violent extremism; Conflict transformation; Peacebuilding; Social cohesion; Populism and nationalism, Religion and politics.

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

Lecturer

Research Area Key Words: Radicalization; (Violent) Extremism; White supremacist environmentalism; Ecofascism; Information disorder; P/CVE; Critical digital and media literacies.

FLINDERS UNIVERSITY

Professor of Psychology

Research Area Keywords: Radicalization; online interactions; political violence; collective hate; social identity; norms; beliefs; emotions (outrage, anger, contempt).

UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD

Professor of Youth and Policy

Research Area Keywords: Preventing Violent Extremism; Youth racial tensions; Education; Anti-racism; Enactment of policy.

TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

Professor of Criminology

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Education; Participatory theatre; Critical feeling.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor

Research Area Keywords: Hate crime; Hate speech; Extremism; Political violence; Terrorism; P/CVE; Evaluation.

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE; INDONESIAN COORDINATING MINISTRY FOR POLITICAL LEGAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS

Senior Teaching Associate; Senior Policy Analyst

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism Studies; Countering Terrorism; Violent Extremism; Gender; Feminist Critical.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Senior Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Violent Extremism; Digital Environment; Radicalisation processes; Online research; Terrorism; Identity.

UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, UK

Professor of Youth and Policy

Research Area Keywords: Preventing Violent Extremism; Youth Racial Tensions; Education; Anti-racism; Enactment of Policy.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Professor of Criminology

Research Area Keywords: Cyber crime; Cyber security; Network analysis; Networks; Organised crime; Policing; Security; Terrorism.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Senior Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Far-right extremist culture and fiction; white supremacy and racism; video games; medievalism; popular culture; conspiracy theories.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Violent extremism in Australia; Human rights; National security laws; Indonesian politics.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Lecturer

Research Area Keywords: Misogyny; Gender-based extremism; Incel; Involuntary celibate; Manosphere.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Research Fellow

Research Area Keywords: Terrorism; Strategy; Media; Technology; Communication; Insurgency; Middle East.