Chris Brown


Chris Brown is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact Swinburne (CSI Swinburne).

He has extensive experience in the community development and community arts sectors and has facilitated a range of arts-based social change projects. These include ‘I Hear You’, a story gathering project exploring the lives of people living with severe and persistent mental illness, and ‘Stories of Hope and Migration’, a project exploring Indigenous perspectives on the refugee debate within Australia.

Chris has a PhD in peace and conflict studies and an honours degree in creative arts. His work has been published in Global Change, Peace and Security, Peace Review, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Peace Studies Journal and Cosmopolitan Civil Societies.

cdbrown@swin.edu.au