Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh

Deputy Director

Building resilience to social harms

Deakin University

Shahram is the Research Professor in Middle East and Central Asian Politics at Deakin University. He is the Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, and the Deputy Director (International) of the Alfred Deakin Institute. He held a prestigious ARC Future Fellowship (2013-2016) on the Role of Islam in Iran’s Foreign Policy-making and recently completed a Qatar Foundation grant on Sectarianism in the Middle East.

Shahram has an extensive publication record and has contributed to the public debate on topics such as democracy and political processes in the Middle East, regional rivalry and Islamic militancy. He has also researched and published on Muslim integration in Australia and citizenship debates. Prof Akbarzadeh was the founding President of the Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS) Inc. (2016-2019)