Researcher Profile

  • Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience; Convenor, AVERT Research Network; Director, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS)

  • Building multi-scalar resilience to violent extremism; Gender and terrorism; Communities and P/CVE; Enhancing intimates and community reporting on violent extremist activity and concerns; Terrorist recruitment strategies; Far-right extremist intervention and diversion; Families and countering violent extremism; Multimodal terrorist social influence; and Residual risk and community reintegration for terrorist offenders

  • Building multi-scalar resilience to violent extremism; Gender and terrorism; Communities and P/CVE; Enhancing intimates and community reporting on violent extremist activity and concerns; Terrorist recruitment strategies; Far-right extremist intervention and diversion; Families and countering violent extremism; Multimodal terrorist social influence; and Residual risk and community reintegration for terrorist offenders

  • Grossman, M (2021) ‘Resilience to violent extremism and terrorism: A multi-systemic analysis’ in Michael Ungar (ed.). Multisystemic Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Changing Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 293-317 (Open Access), https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190095888.001.0001/oso-9780190095888-chapter-17

    Grossman, M, S Carland, A Zammit, H Tahiri (2021) ‘Cherchez la femme? The role of women in supporting and opposing violent extremism: Lessons from the Australian landscape’, in David Morin & Sami Aoun (eds). The New Age of Extremes? Western Democracies, Radicalisation and Violent Extremism (Le nouvel âge des extrèmes? Les démocraties occidentales, la radicalization et l’extrèmisme violent). Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 319-338 (in French only).

    Grossman, M and V Gerrand (2021) ‘Terrorism Confidential: Ethics, primary data and the construction of ‘necessary fictions’, Terrorism and Political Violence, 33(2), 242-256, https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2021.1880192

    Grossman, M and N Davis (2021) ‘A bridge too far? An academic-national security dialogue on research collaboration across the divide’, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism, 16(1), 12-31, https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2021.1883723

    Thomas, P, M Grossman, K Christmann, S Miah (2020) ‘Community reporting on violent extremism by “intimates”: Emerging international evidence’, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 13(4), 638-659, https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2020.1791389

    Grossman, M, M Ungar, K Hadfield, P Jefferies (2020), ‘Youth resilience to violent extremism: Development and validation of the BRAVE measure’, Terrorism and Political Violence, https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2019.1705283

    Grossman, M and V Barolsky (2019) Reintegrating children, women and families returning to Australia from foreign conflict zones: The role of community support. Final Research Report for Countering Violent Extremism Subcommittee, Australia-New Zealand Counter-Terrorism Committee, Canberra, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aebdc1dcc8fedda5a5815bb/t/5d6dcf7ce4f17a0001c05690/1567477653014/Grossman+and+Barolsky+CVESC+COMMUNITY++REINTEGRATION+-+FINAL+REVISED+REPORT.pdf

    Grossman, M (2019) ‘When the “right thing to do” feels so wrong: Australian Muslim perspectives on “intimates” reporting to authorities about violent extremism’ in John Esposito and Derya Iner (eds.), Islamophobia and Radicalization: Breeding Intolerance and Violence, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 203-224.

    Grossman, M, S Carland and H Tahiri (2018) Roles of Women in Supporting and Opposing Violent Extremism: The Australian Landscape. Final Research Report for Countering Violent Extremism Subcommittee, Australia-New Zealand Counter-Terrorism Committee, Canberra. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aebdc1dcc8fedda5a5815bb/t/5cb6c6c053450ae75fad693d/1555482460903/Women+and+VE+CVESC+Report_FINAL%28LowRes%29.pdf

    Grossman, M (2018) ‘The role of families and civil society in detecting radicalisation and promoting disengagement from violent extremism’, in Rohan Gunaratna & Patrick Rueppel (eds). Combatting Violent Extremism and Terrorism in Asia and Europe – From Cooperation to Collaboration, Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung/S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 155-170, https://www.kas.de/documents/288143/288192/Terrorism_Grossman.pdf/6186a3c7-a10e-be16-05bb-7be3d5d09b42

  • Social Influence – Micro, Meso and Macro Levels; Disinformation And Social Cohesion; and Radicalisation and Extremism


  • Twitter Handle     @AvertResNet
    Email Address michele.grossman@deakin.edu.au

 

Michelle Grossman

Overview

Professor Michele Grossman is Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience at Deakin University’s Alfred Deakin Institute, Director of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies and Convenor of the AVERT Research Network. Her research on violent extremism and communities has been funded by CVESC-ANZCTC, Dept. of Home Affairs, Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats-ESRC, National Institute of Justice and Public Safety Canada, amongst others. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Terrorism and Political Violence and the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism and is a Robert Schuman Distinguished Scholar Fellow at European University Institute in Florence.