University of Birmingham

Graduate Student, School of Social Policy

Social Sciences

Thesis Title: Apna Khar Boha Bano (Make your own home): An exploration of Pakistani Mirpuri Muslim women, domestic violence and home

About

Zahira Latif B.Sc. M.Sc. is currently working as an Independent Research Consultant and is a PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies and the Institute of Applied Social Studies. Her PhD is partly funded by the Department of Communities and Local Government and explores the impact of domestic violence on the needs of Pakistani Mirpuri Muslim women. She is currently a non-executive board member of the Domestic Violence Intervention Project (London) and the Housing for Women Housing Association (London). Her previous positions include being the youngest and first female committee member of the Institute of Asian Businesses (part of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry). Shortly, after she was appointed to her first non-executive board position at the Birmingham and Solihull Connexions Service. She has also previously been appointed to the post of Director of Research of a management consultancy based in the West Midlands.