
Dr Andrew Zammit
Dr Andrew Zammit, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Victoria University
Contact
contact@andrewzammit.orgInstitution
Victoria University
Research Areas
Dr. Andrew Zammit is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University, focusing on terrorism and security studies, including violent extremism in Australia and the relationship between terrorism and transnational dimensions of armed conflict. Since 2010, he has been employed on terrorism and security related research projects at Monash University and Victoria University with government partners including Victoria Police, the Department of Justice and Community Safety Victoria, the Defence Science and Technology Group, the Australian Federal Police and the NSW Premier's Department. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, and is a member of the Victorian Government’s Expert Advisory Committee on Countering Violent Extremism. He was recently awarded a National Intelligence Postdoctoral Grant for the project “How events abroad shape threats at home: grounded approaches for forecasting violent extremism”.
Key Publications
Journal Articles
| Revisiting the relationship between academics and national security practitioners (2021) | Ilardi GJ, Smith D and Zammit A |
| Operation Silves: Inside the 2017 Islamic State Sydney Plane Plot (2020) | Zammit A |
| New developments in the Islamic State’s external operations: the 2017 Sydney plane plot (2017) | Zammit A |
| The role of virtual planners in the 2015 Anzac Day terror plot (2017) | Zammit A |
| Australian jihadism in the age of the Islamic State (2017) | Zammit A |
| What is countering violent extremism? Exploring CVE policy and practice in Australia (2016) | Harris-Hogan S, Barrelle K and Zammit A |
| Book Chapters | |
| Counterterrorism yearbook 2019: Australia (2019) | In Counterterrorism yearbook 2019, Kfir I and Grice G |
Reports
| The roles of women in supporting and opposing violent extremism: understanding gender and terrorism in contemporary Australia (2018) | Grossman M, Carland S, Tahiri H and Zammit A |
| Australian foreign fighters: risks and responses (2015) | Zammit A |