Introduction
Dr Matteo Vergani is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Deakin University, and Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Matteo’s research focuses on the "ecosystem of hate", which includes discrimination, micro-aggressions, hate speech, hate crime and politically motivated violence. Matteo's research looks at the factors that cause and accelerate hate, as well as the factors that contribute to prevent and mitigate hate, such as social cohesion and inclusion of diverse communities in multicultural societies. Matteo has completed numerous impact evaluations of P/CVE projects in Australia and South East Asia.
Expert
Matteo has two PhDs in the social and political sciences: a PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the Catholic University of Milan (2011) and a PhD in Political Science at Monash University (2016). Matteo has published one monograph ("How is terrorism changing us?" 2018), one edited book ("Countering violent and hateful extremism in Indonesia" 2022), 38 peer-reviewed journal articles, 15 book chapters in scientific books, and numerous research reports. Matteo has received over 3 million AUD in research funding from government and private organisations to conduct research on how to mitigate and prevent political and bias-motivated violence.
Fields of expertise: Monitoring and evaluation, Social change / social transformations, Social policy