Dr Nadia Aghtaie
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Gender and Violence
School for Policy Studies
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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
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
Safeguarding teenage intimate relationships: connecting online and offline contexts and risks
Role
Researcher
Description
To date, no national or transnational projects have addressed the incidence, role and impact of new technologies for instigating and maintaining control and violence in young people’s intimate relationships. This…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/01/2013 to 01/03/2015
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
02/03/2022Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence
Critical Criminology: An International Journal
UK victim-survivor experiences of intimate partner spiritual abuse and religious coercive control and implications for practice
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Faith and Coercive Control
Faith and Coercive Control
The Justice, Inequalities and Gender Based Violence (GBV) Project
Gendered Justice: Inequalities in the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in Iran
Youth Justice
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
Chair in Gender, Violence & International Policy
School for Policy Studies
Dr Jo Staines
Associate Professor in Youth Justice and Child Welfare
School for Policy Studies
Dr Natasha Mulvihill
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
School for Policy Studies