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Professional Activities

Conference Roles

  • AI and the Global Political Economy of Labour and Resistance at AI, Iranian gig workers and feminist perspectives labour, by Invitation (San Francisco)
  • Gig workers in Iran: the case of Snapp (University of Exeter, 2023 - present)
  • Teaching the nation: the struggle of women teachers in Iran (Leiden University - NL, 2023 - present)
  • "Resistance in their own words: the Iranian revolution in workers' slogans and memories" - PRESENTER AND PANEL ORGANISER (AIS - Association for Iranian Studies, 2022)
  • "Knowledge production about Iran and Iranians: beyond inclusion as exclusion" - PRESENTER AND CHAIR (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 2021)
  • "Women at work for the Islamic Republic of Iran/ Donne al lavoro per la Repubblica Islamica dell’Iran" - PRESENTER (SIS - Società Italiana delle Storiche / Italian Society of Women Historians, 2021)
  • "Appropriating Workers’ Grievances through Populist Narratives in Iran: Shifting Discursive Strategies from Khomeini to Ahmadinejad (1979-2009)" - PRESENTER (Middle East Studies Association of North America, 2019)
  • "The Politics of Fieldwork in Iran: risks and challenges" - PRESENTER (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019)
  • "The Language of Resistance. The Iranian Revolution in Workers’ Words" - PRESENTER AND PANEL ORGANISER (SeSaMO - Società Italiana di Studi Mediorientali / Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 2019)
  • "Trajectories of Resistance: Workers’ Actions and Shifting Strategies in Iran" - PRESENTER (CAPOLCOT - International Conference Political Change and Territorial Conflicts in North Africa and Middle East, 2018)

Editorships

  • Special issue on Contemporary Issues of Capitalism in the Middle East - Middle East Critique journal (Guest editor)

Event Roles

  • The Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work: insights from the Global South and Global North (Workshop, 2024 - present)
  • Spaces of difference: art and agency in the Middle East - HLC MENA Network (Workshop, 2024 - present)
  • How to publish your research: from submission to publication (Talk/Lecture, 2024 - present)
  • Women in Iran, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, University of Liverpool Feminist Society - Guild of Students, 2023 - present)
  • "Academic grant writing" - talk, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Political Studies Association - Pre-Conference Day (John Moore University))

Grant Application Assessments

  • External Post-submission (British Academy)

Media Appearances

  • Iran, proteste e amnistia, RAI - RADIO 3
  • Iran espulso dalla commissione ONU sulle donne, RAI - RADIO 3
  • If sanctions do not put a halt to Iran’s economy, workers will, THE CONVERSATION
  • "What do Iranians want? Better salaries, more jobs and safe working conditions", THE CONVERSATION (GLOBAL) / HUFFINGTONPOST US
  • Iran’s startups promise paradise for the country’s unemployed youth, THE CONVERSATION (GLOBAL) / HUFFINGTONPOST US

Professional Body Memberships

  • International Studies Association (Member - professional association, 2023 - present)
  • British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (Member, 2023 - present)
  • (RSA) Research Staff Association - University of Liverpool (Deputy co-chair, 2022 - present)
  • British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (Member, 2019 - present)
  • Middle East Studies Association of North America (Member, 2019 - present)
  • SeSaMO - Società Italiana di Studi Mediorientali (Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies) (Member, 2019 - present)

Publication Reviews

  • Reviewer, Invited (International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer, Invited (International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer, Invited (British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer, Invited (Middle East Critique, Pre-publication)
  • Reviewer, Invited (Journal of Family Studies, Pre-publication)