Biography
Dr Dara Conduit is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow in political science at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, and a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. Dara's research interests centre around authoritarianism, with a regional focus on the Middle East, especially Syria. Her research focusses on questions related to contentious politics inside authoritarian regimes, including the relationships between governments and their opponents, and each party's tactical (especially online) innovation.
Dara's academic work has been widely published in journals including Democratization, Political Geography, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and The Middle East Journal, and her book, The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. She is a regular media commentator, has been invited to provide advice to the UN OHCHR’s Working Group on Mercenaries, and her work has been cited in UN reports. She is co-convenor of the women Middle East researchers in Australia network (WoMENA).
Dr. Conduit holds a PhD from Monash University, a M. Litt from the University of St. Andrews, was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge in 2015.
Read more on Dara's profileResearch interests
Authoritarianism, Oppositions and Non-State Actors, Contentious Politics, Foreign Fighters, Cybersecurity, Digital Authoritarianism, Syria and Iran
Publications
Pre-election polling and the democratic veneer in a hybrid regime
D Conduit, S Akbarzadeh
(2020), pp. 1-21, Democratization, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Great power-middle power dynamics: the case of China and Iran
D Conduit, Shahram Akbarzadeh
(2019), Vol. 28, pp. 468-481, Journal of contemporary China, Abingdon, Eng., C1
D Conduit
(2019), Vol. 30, pp. 23-41, Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations, Abingdon, Eng., C1
D Conduit, S Akbarzadeh
(2018), pp. 27-50, Human rights and agents of change in Iran, Singapore, B1
Contentious politics and Middle Eastern oppositions after the uprisings
D Conduit, Shahram Akbarzadeh
(2018), pp. 1-14, New opposition in the Middle East, Singapore, B1
The Iranian reform movement since 2009
D Conduit, Shahram Akbarzadeh
(2018), pp. 119-149, New opposition in the Middle East, Singapore, B1
The patterns of Syrian uprising: Comparing Hama in 1980-1982 and Homs in 2011
D Conduit
(2017), Vol. 44, pp. 73-87, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, C1-1
Rouhani's first two years in office : opportunities and risks in contemporary Iran
S Akbarzadeh, D Conduit
(2016), pp. 1-15, Iran in the world : President Rouhani's Foreign Policy, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
Charting a new course? Testing Rouhani's foreign policy agency in the Iran-Syria relationship
S Akbarzadeh, D Conduit
(2016), pp. 133-154, Iran in the world: President Rouhani' s doreign policy, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the Islamic State
D Conduit, D Malet, L West
(2016), pp. 195-212, New Islamic State, Surrey, Eng., B1
S Akbarzadeh, D Conduit
(2016), pp. 177-181, Iran in the world : President Rouhani's Foreign Policy, Berlin, Germany, B1
The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the spectacle of Hama
D Conduit
(2016), Vol. 70, pp. 211-226, Middle East journal, Washington, D.C., C1-1
D Conduit, B Rich
(2016), Vol. 18, pp. 431-454, International community law review, Leiden, The Netherlands, C1-1
Iran in the world president Rouhani' s foreign policy
S Akbarzadeh, D Conduit
(2016), Basingstoke, Eng., A7
B Rich, D Conduit
(2015), Vol. 38, pp. 113-131, Studies in conflict & terrorism, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Anticipated Title Sharing Syrian scholarship on ISIS with the Australian public
Dr Dara Conduit
- 2017: $9,945
Women know the Middle East
Dr Dara Conduit
- 2019: $20,000
Industry and Other Funding
For assessing the impact of external actors in the Syrian and Afghan proxy wars
Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh, Dr Dara Conduit, Dr Zahid Ahmed
- 2020: $226,755
- 2018: $344,282
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report