Dr Nadia Aghtaie
Expertise
I’m a primarily qualitative researcher with expertise in gender-based violence, faith-based abuse, and adolescent technology-facilitated abuse in the UK and international contexts.
Current positions
Associate Professor in Criminology
School for Policy Studies
Contact
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Research interests
Nadia has just finished a research project on young people’s experiences of violence and abuse(online & offline) in their intimate relationships within the European context. Her current research is on domestic violence and the notion/s of justice for non-heterogenous communities of Muslim women who use Sharia Councils in the UK.
Research interests include:
Gender based violence within national and international contexts
Cultural and structural violence within Muslim context
Violence and abuse within teenage intimate relationships
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Religious Arbitration of Marriages Involving Domestic Abuse
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
To follow.Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/05/2024 to 30/04/2025
A comparative study of gender construction and its impact on healthy relationships within English and Ghanaian schools
Principal Investigator
Description
We aim to explore the construction of gender within schools and its implications for forming healthy relationships and gender-based violence (GBV) among young people (YP) aged 13-19 in England and…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
09/03/2022 to 01/10/2022
Unrestricted programme support on Understanding and Responding to Coercive Control
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The project addresses a series of important issues in tackling domestic violence and abuse that have not previously been dealt with to any extent, relating specifically to emerging forms of…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/10/2020 to 30/09/2022
GCRF Forced displacemnt
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The purpose of the research is to get a better understanding of the process of displacement and its impact on experiences and perceptions of Gender Based Violence (GBV) along with…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/11/2016 to 17/12/2018
Justice, Inequality and Gender Based Violence
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The research addresses how ‘justice’ is understood, sought, and experienced by a wide range of victims/survivors of gender based violence (sexual, domestic and ‘honour-based’ violence), by asking:
1)…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/10/2015 to 18/05/2018
Thesis supervisions
Perspectives of Iranian men to sexual violence in the UK
Supervisors
The Materiality of Cyber Commercial Sigheh
Supervisors
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the experiences of fairness amongst adults with learning disabilities when engaging with services responding to domestic violence and abuse.
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
30/04/2024Using Social Media to Recruit Seldom-Heard Groups
Social Sciences
Religious Arbitration of Marriages Involving Domestic Abuse
Religious Arbitration of Marriages Involving Domestic Abuse
The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
What is justice?
Violence Against Women
Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence
Critical Criminology: An International Journal
Related people
Professor Ailsa Cameron
Professor of Health and Social Care
School for Policy Studies
Professor Debbie Watson
Professor In Child and Family Welfare
School for Policy Studies
Professor Marianne Hester
Honorary Professor
School for Policy Studies
Professor Jo Staines
Professor of Youth Justice and Child Welfare
School for Policy Studies
Dr Natasha Mulvihill
Associate Professor in Criminology
School for Policy Studies