Dr Vivian Gerrand
Dr Vivian Gerrand, Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Deakin University
Contact
vivian.gerrand@deakin.edu.auInstitution
Deakin University
Research Areas
Dr Vivian Gerrand is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute where she is an associate investigator on the ARC Project: ‘Anti-Women online Movements; Pathways and Patterns of Participation’ and where she coordinates Stream 2 (Building resilience to social harms including violent extremism) at the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies. She was a Chief Investigator on the Horizon 2020 Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism and Polarisation (BRaVE) Project (2019-21). She is a member of the AVERT Executive Committee and co-convenes The Australian Sociological Society’s Cultural Sociology Thematic Group. Vivian is the author of Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging (MUP, 2016) and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship (Palgrave McMillan 2021).
Key Publications
Books
| Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging (2016) | Gerrand V |
Journal Articles
| Communicative Channels for Prosocial Resilience (in press) (2022) | Gerrand V |
| Building societal resilience to online polarisation and violent extremism (in press) (2022) | Gerrand V, Conway M and Watkin A |
| Trajectories of Radicalization and Resilience in Nuruddin Farah's North of Dawn (2020) | Gerrand V |
| Terrorism confidential: Ethics, primary data and the construction of “necessary fictions.” (2021) | Grossman M and Gerrand V |
| Youth resilience to violent extremism: Development and validation of the BRAVE measure (2020) | Grossman M, Hadfield K, Jefferies P, Gerrand V and Ungar M |
Book Chapters
| Understanding the experiences of families of radicalised Muslim youth in Australia: Implications for social work practice (in press) (2022)in Radicalisation, Extremism and Social Work Practice, Robinson L and Gardee R | Gerrand V and Grossman M |
Reports
| Rapid Evidence Assessment on Alternative Narratives (2023) | Roose J, Gerrand V and Akbarzadeh S |
| Interviewing the Families of Young People who have joined or Attempted to join Violent Conflict (2018) | Gerrand V and Grossman M |
| Polarisation, violent extremism and resilience in Europe today: an analytical framework (2019) | McNeil-Willson R, Gerrand V, Scrinzi F and Triandafyllidou A |
| Rapid Evidence Assessment on Alternative Narratives (2021) | Roose J, Gerrand V and Akbarzadeh S |
Grants and Projects
| AVERT Alternative Narratives Rapid Evidence Assessment Grant | |
| ‘Contact Zones: Understanding Terrorist Recruitment’Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, 2021-2022 | Grossman M, Barolsky V, Khalil L, Peucker M, Duckworth M, Gerrand V, Dellal H, Thomas P and Christmann K |
| ‘CRISIS POINTS: Extremism Under a State of Emergency: the Intersection of Extremism and Natural Disasters’Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, 2021-2022 | Khalil L, Roose J, Duckworth M, Gerrand V and Wheelan C |
| Horizon 2020 BRaVE (Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism and Polarisation) Grant | |
| Horizon 2020 GREASE (Radicalisation, Secularism and the Governance of Religion: Bringing Together European and Asian Perspectives) Grant | |
| ‘Objects for Everyday Resilience’ | Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies Stream 2-3 Project |