Michele Grossman
Professor Michele Grossman
CRIS Director
Building resilience to social harms
Deakin University
Michele is the Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University. She is a terrorism studies researcher, focusing on engaging communities in preventing and building resilience to violent extremism. She is the Convenor of the AVERT (Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism) Research Network, a multi-university network of terrorism scholars, as well as Director of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS), where she co-leads CRIS's Stream 2 on Building Resilience to Social Harms, Including Violent Extremism.
Michele pioneered research on community reporting thresholds for family members and close friends concerned about someone radicalising to violence that has been replicated in four countries, and she co-led the development of the BRAVE (Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism) measure for understanding protective and vulnerability factors for young people at risk of radicalising to violence. Her projects with CRIS include Contact Zones: Understanding Terrorist Recruitment, Mapping Right Wing Intervention Capacity in Victoria, and Trust Flows.
Michele serves on the Editorial Boards of Terrorism and Political Violence and the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, and she holds a range of other national and international advisory appointments in her areas of expertise.
