Researcher Profile

  • Industry Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cites (ISILC), Victoria University

  • Violent Extremism, Mental Health, Social Network Analysis, Violent Extremism, Political, Social Psychology, and Social Network Analysis

  • Violent Extremism, Mental Health, Social Network Analysis, Violent Extremism, Political, Social Psychology, and Social Network Analysis

  • Iqbal, M., O’Brien, K. S., & Bliuc, A. M. (Accepted). The relationship between existential anxiety, political efficacy, extrinsic religiosity and support for violent extremism in Indonesia. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

    Peucker, M., Lentini, P., Smith, D., & Iqbal, M. (2021). Our diggers would turn in their graves : nostalgia and civil religion in Australia s far-right. Australian Journal of Political Science, 56(2), (189-205). doi: 10.1080/10361146.2021.1935448

    Vergani, M., Iqbal, M., Ilbahar, E., & Barton, G. (2020). The Three Ps of Radicalization: Push, Pull and Personal. A Systematic Scoping Review of the Scientific Evidence about Radicalization Into Violent Extremism. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 43(10). doi: 10.1080/1057610X.2018.1505686

    Johnston, M. F., Iqbal, M., & True, J. (2020). The Lure of (Violent) Extremism: Gender Constructs in Online Recruitment and Messaging in Indonesia. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. doi: 10.1080/1057610X.2020.1759267

    Bliuc, A. M., Betts, J. M., Faulkner, N., Vergani, M., Chow, R. J., Iqbal, M., & Best, D. (2020). The effects of local socio-political events on group cohesion in online far-right communities. PLoS ONE, 15(3). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230302

    Bliuc, A. M., Betts, J., Vergani, M., Iqbal, M., & Dunn, K. (2019). Collective identity changes in far-right online communities: The role of offline intergroup conflict. New Media and Society, 21(8), (1770-1786). doi: 10.1177/1461444819831779

    Vergani, M., Barton, G., & Iqbal, M. (2017). Beyond social relationships: Investigating positive and negative attitudes towards violent protest within the same social movement. Journal of Sociology, 53(2), 445-460. doi:10.1177/1440783316688344

    Iqbal, M., O’Brien, K. S., Bliuc, A. M., & Vergani, M. (2016). Death Reminders Increase Agreement With Extremist Views but Not Violent Extremist Action in Indonesian Muslims. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47(6), 891-897. doi:10.1177/0022022116646875

  • Radicalisation And Extremism; Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Social Network Analysis And Network Disruption


  • Twitter Handle     @muhammadiqbal
    Email Address muhammad.iqbal@vu.edu.au

 

Muhammad Iqbal

Overview

Dr Muhammad Iqbal is an Industry Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cites (ISILC), Victoria University, Melbourne. He is also a CI in the Applied Security Science Partnership (ASSP), which brings together policing and security practitioners with academics to collaboratively build robust evidence on behavioural indicators of violent extremism􏰃 Dr Iqbal has undertaken quantitative research on the issue of violent extremism in Australia and Indonesia, and has utilised experimental design, data mining, web scraping, social network analysis, and quantitative text analysis in his research.