Dr Matteo Vergani

Building Resilience to Social Harms

Deakin University

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. It 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 preventing/countering violent extremism projects in Australia and South East Asia.