Expertise

teaching

Engaging in high quality core teaching, marking, and assessing coursework for various intersectional, decolonial and gender-related topics within level 4 through 7.
Designing and leading, selecting assessment instruments and criteria; and providing constructive and comprehensive feedback for level 5: Diversity, Crime & Prejudice level 6: Crime and Inequalities, level 6: Research Project, level 7 Research Project.
Contributing to the monitoring and enhancement of quality in teaching, shaping, and influencing curriculum development and actively contributing to the research and designing of the new BA Criminology course.
Undertook the PGCAP to Fellow level and applied and got awarded the SFHEA.
Acting as Personal Tutor & Academic advisor for 60+ students across levels 3, 4 & 5.
Supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students’ dissertations.
Acting as DoS for one PhD student and a second supervisor for one, and an independent assessor for another.
Acting as HEA reviewer.

education

01/2020 – 07/2021 PGCAP, Nottingham Trent University, Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching TILT : Commendation & Award of FHEA
09/2016 - 09/2019 PhD, The University of Kent, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
09/2006 - 12/2009 Master’s Degree, The American University in Cairo, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies :

research

Conducting substantive research in gender and social policy and applying appropriate methodologies.
Developing a research plan for the next 5 academic years.
Preparing publications for high-quality journals and book publishers and contributing to the school’s REF submission.
Co-directing the Critical Criminology and Social Justice research group, founded in 2020/21.
Secured QR funding for 4 projects, and currently applying for various funding bids; the British Academy ODA Interdisciplinary Fund; the Leverhulme Fellowship 2024 Application Form.
Engaging in individual and collaborative research and presenting findings in academic conferences.
Acting as a reviewer for academic journals.
Writing the findings of my research in various media outlets.

Grants

08/2022 QR Funded Workshop entitled ‘Decolonising Criminology.’ Award of £2000. Lead Applicant.
05/2022 – 07/2022 QR Fund for research for my monograph: Secular Muslim Feminism. Award of £1450.
01/2022 – 04/2022 QR Funded Symposium entitled ‘Gender, Marginalization and Social Justice.’ Award of £2000. Lead Applicant.
01/2022 – 06/2022 QR Funded Project entitled ‘The Emotional Impact of Research on PHD Students.’ Award of £3000. Co-investigator.
03/2021 – 08/2021 QR Funded Pilot Project entitled ‘Working Women Impacted by COVID-19 Pandemic.’ Award of £3000. Lead investigator.
09/2016 - 09/2019 Vice Chancellor’s funded PHD research entitled Contested Voices: Secular Muslim Women Activists in the Age of ISIS. Fully funded. Award of £62,000
09/2007 - 07/200o

public engagement

10/2022 Public Talk, Islamophobia Awareness Month, Nottingham Trent University
08/2022 Decolonising Criminology Workshop Organizing, Nottingham Trent University
07/2022 Paper Presentation, the International Conference of Autoethnography, "Surviving British academia at the times of COVID-19."
07/2022 Paper Presentation, Gender Research Conference, Nottingham Trent University
06/2022 Book Presentation, Nottingham Trent University, School of Social Sciences Showcase
05/2022 Paper Presentation, Theory Aloud Series, Nottingham Trent University, "The role of difference in feminist transnational solidarity."
05/2022 Paper Presentation, 8th World Conference on Women’s Studies 2022
04/2022 Poster Presentation, 4th International Conference on Gender Research, Portugal, "From public to private."
07/2021 Panel Contribution and Paper Presentation, BSC Annual Conference 2021, "Decolonizing the curriculum in criminology."
06/2021 Work in Progress Presentation, Celebrating the innovation in how people have continued their research during a global pandemic, Nottingham Trent University
06/2021 Paper Presentation, 4th International Conference on Gender Research, Portugal
06/2021 Research Findings Presentation, School Showcase Event, Nottingham Trent University
05/2021 Work in Progress Presentation, 7th World Conference on Women’s Studies 2021
02/2019 Public Lecture, Kent Contemporary Discussion Society & Socrates-SSPSSR-UKC, The University of Kent, Canterbury
01/2019 Work in Progress Presentation, 5th International Conference on Women’s Studies, Leeds
05/2018 Work in Progress Presentation, Emotional Politics Interdisciplinary Conference, UKC