Collectively, the researchers will receive over $4.9 million to lead their three-year research projects that range from understanding the influences shaping men’s attraction to anti-women online movements to investigating the impacts of changing geopolitics on student mobilities between Australia and China, India and Vietnam.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Alfred Deakin Professor Julie Owens says the funding success highlights our researchers as leading minds across their disciplines.

‘This funding will support our world-class researchers in their continued efforts to expand knowledge and research capacity in Australia to the significant benefit of our communities,’ she said.

RESEARCH PROJECTS FROM ADI

Pinpointing pathways to anti-women online movements to reduce violence

Dr Joshua Roose will aim to understand the influences shaping men’s attraction to anti-women online movements and patterns of participation within them. The project intends to advance sociological research on the endemic problem of anti-women movements advocating violence against women in online environments ($441,037).

By providing an evidence base and identifying key intervention points to inform policy making, this project hopes to benefit women and girls who experience detrimental impacts on their democratic and economic online participation.

Investigating religious populism, emotions and political mobilisation

Professor Ihsan Yilmaz will investigate the main features of religious populism with a focus on emotions in Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan. Through multiple analytical methods that examine populist statements and interviews with voters, it will advance theoretical and empirical knowledge on religious populism, particularly in relation to emotive political mobilisation and polarisation ($380,058).

Expected outcomes are benchmark data sets and conceptual frameworks that can be used in other contexts where religious populism poses a danger to democracy. Other Deakin project investigators are Professor Greg Barton and Dr Zahid Ahmed.