Dr Vivian Gerrand
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Institution
Deakin University
Research Area Keywords
Alternative narratives; Image-making; Militant wellness; Polarisation; Radicalisation; Recruitment; Resilience.
Contact: vivian.gerrand@deakin.edu.au
About Vivian
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)
Gerrand V and Grossman M
In Radicalisation, Extremism and Social Work Practice, Robinson L and Gardee R
Research 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’
Grossman M, Barolsky V, Khalil L, Peucker M, Duckworth M, Gerrand V, Dellal H, Thomas P and Christmann K
Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, 2021-2022
‘CRISIS POINTS: Extremism Under a State of Emergency: the Intersection of Extremism and Natural Disasters’
Khalil L, Roose J, Duckworth M, Gerrand V and Wheelan C
Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, 2021-2022
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