Blog posts by Kaveri Qureshi

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Introducing our interim Associate Director: Dr Zubin Mistry

During Semester One, GENDER.ED welcomes a new interim Associate Director, Dr Zubin Mistry, from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Kaveri Qureshi welcomes Zubin to the team and introduces him in this brief exchange for the blog.

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Welcome back!

Associate Director Kaveri Qureshi and Lauren Hood, outgoing summer Intern, take stock of what GENDER.ED has been doing this summer, to get ourselves ready for the new academic year.
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GENDER.ED Newsletter - June 2025

As the academic year draws to a close, we have provided a round-up of our events, awards, new appointments and other activities that have taken place across Semester Two! Take […]
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Reflecting on the Mini-Undergraduate Dissertation Showcase

This year, GENDER.ED was able to host a Mini-Undergraduate Dissertation Showcase as part of our Annual Research Showcase. In this blog, Undergraduate Intern Mouna Chatt, and Kaveri Qureshi, Associate Director, converse about what they saw as the highlights and significance of the mini-showcase.

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Queering research methods

This piece introduces a blog series on queering research methods, extending out of a roundtable GENDER.ED hosted on this topic back in LGBT+ History Month.

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Exploring contracepting through poetry: a creative, arts-based methods workshop

Earlier this month, Marie Larsson and Autumn Roesch-Marsh hosted a workshop using poetry to explore contraception – an extension of Marie’s research on young people’s contraceptive negotiations, and Autumn’s work using creativity and the arts to co-create research. In this blog, Kaveri Qureshi sits down with them to discuss their collaboration, and how the workshop went.
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GENDER.ED Annual Research Showcase 2025

Kaveri Qureshi, Associate Director of GENDER.ED, reflects on this week’s Annual Research Showcase - the highlight of the yearly calendar for GENDER.ED's community – and the different levels at which we see that the work of GENDER.ED matters.
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Appraising the ‘portable closet’: Matt Cook’s Annual LGBTQ+ History Month lecture

Kaveri Qureshi discusses Professor Matt Cook’s impactful Annual LGBTQ+ History Month Lecture, which was co-hosted by the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology and GENDER.ED earlier this month. Matt’s lecture […]
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Devi Khadka: a woman’s fight against conflict-related sexual violence

Kaveri Qureshi reflects on the documentary film Devi - screened at the University last month - about the life of Devi Khadka: rebel warrior, mother and survivor of sexual violence […]
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International Women’s Day: reflections on gender-based violence in globalised contexts

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, Kaveri Qureshi reflects on a key concern of women’s movements globally – gender-based violence, with a special focus on the transnational dynamics of feminist […]
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The future of reproductive rights under Trump 2.0

On January 15th, a few days ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America, Dr Laura Sochas, Dr Emily Adrion and […]
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Introducing our new Associate Director: Dr Kaveri Qureshi!

In this post, new GENDER.ED Associate Director Kaveri discusses her motivations, research, and hopes for GENDER.ED’s future with Communications and Events Intern, Mouna Chatt.Mouna: Hello Kaveri! Welcome to the GENDER.ED […]

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