Dr Dara Conduit

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.