Shannon Zimmerman is postdoctoral research fellow at the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and a tutor and lecturer at the ANU. Her research investigates the peace operations, specifically the protection of civilians in conflict environments characterised by asymmetric threats. She also studies misogyny motivated terrorism, looking at the online groups in the ‘Manosphere’.

Shannon received her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2019 and her Masters in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University in 2012.

She can be also reached here: shannon.zimmerman@rmit.edu.au