Dr Nughmana Mirza

  • Lecturer (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

Biography

Nughmana Mirza is a lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow. She holds a PhD in Social Policy, MRes in Social Research, and an MSc in Islamic and Middle Eastern History all from the Univeristy of Edinburgh. Her doctoral research focused on South Asian women's experience of family abuse in Scotland, with a particular focus on micro- and macro-level contexts such as policy and practice. Her wider research interests are around kinship patterns, marriage migration, and the criminal justice response to marginalised populations, specifically South Asian women.

Nughmana has previously worked with the Scottish Government on experiences of forced marriage in Scotland, and with Nuffield and Stirling University on a UK-wide project exploring child welfare inequalities.

Research interests

  • Gender-based violence
  • Kinship patterns
  • Transnational Migration
  • Criminal Justice Response/pathway

Research groups

Publications

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Jump to: 2025 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016
Number of items: 17.

2025

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X, Bradley, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-7649 and Dickson, Nicola (2025) Diversifying Justice: Revealing Domestic Abuse Realities and Viable Help-seeking Pathways for South Asian Women in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, SCCJR.

Bradley, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-7649, Ptolomey, A. M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2917-1060 and Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2025) From emotional interruptions to wilful disruptions: Zine-making as a post-qualitative method for locating, articulating, navigating, and doing emotion in research. Social Science Research Network, (doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5141755)

2022

Chantler, Khatidja, Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X (2022) Policy and professional responses to forced marriage in Scotland. British Journal of Social Work, 52(2), pp. 833-849. (doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcab068)

Piacentini, Teresa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752, Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Gilmour, Molly (2022) Challenges of language, accessibility and ethics when conducting digital interviews in the virtual space. In: SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. SAGE Publishing. ISBN 9781529601305 (doi: 10.4135/9781529601305)

2021

Lucas, Siân E., Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Westwood, Joanne (2021) ‘Any d*** can make a baby, but it takes a real man to be a dad’: group work for fathers. Qualitative Social Work, 20(3), pp. 718-737. (doi: 10.1177/1473325020909431)

2020

Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Wilks, Lauren (2020) Reframing agency in abusive contexts: beyond ‘free choice’ and ‘open resistance’. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 4(2), p. 295. (doi: 10.1332/239868020x15909982106020)

Mason, W. et al. (2020) Toward full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in case study research: insights from investigating child welfare inequalities. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 14(2), pp. 164-183. (doi: 10.1177/1558689819857972)

2019

Featherstone, Brid, Morris, Kate, Daniel, Brigid, Bywaters, Paul, Brady, Geraldine, Bunting, Lisa, Mason, Will and Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2019) Poverty, inequality, child abuse and neglect: Changing the conversation across the UK in child protection? Children and Youth Services Review, 97, pp. 127-133. (doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.06.009)

2018

Morris, K. et al. (2018) Social work, poverty and child welfare interventions. Child and Family Social Work, 23(3), pp. 364-372. (doi: 10.1111/cfs.12423)

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2018) Reframing agency in abusive contexts: beyond ‘free choice’ and ‘open resistance’. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 2(1), pp. 41-56. (doi: 10.1332/239868017X15127297709475)

Mason, Will, Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Webb, Calum (2018) Using the framework method to analyze mixed-methods case studies. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781526438683 (doi: 10.4135/9781526438683)

2017

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2017) South Asian women’s experience of abuse by female affinal kin: a critique of mainstream conceptualisations of ‘domestic abuse’. Families, Relationships and Societies, 6(3), pp. 393-409. (doi: 10.1332/204674315X14501013130928)

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2017) South Asian women's experiences of family abuse: the role of the husband's mother. Discover Society, 31 Oct.

Chantler, Khatidja, Baker, Victoria, MacKenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X, McCarry, Melanie and Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2017) Understanding Forced Marriage in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Government.

2016

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2016) The UK government’s conflicting agendas and ‘harmful’ immigration policies: shaping South Asian women’s experiences of abuse and ‘exit’. Critical Social Policy, 36(4), pp. 592-609. (doi: 10.1177/0261018316641239)

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2016) South Asian Women’s Experience of Family Abuse: the Role of the Husband’s Mother. Discussion Paper. Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, Edinburgh.

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 19:43:06 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 17.

Articles

Bradley, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-7649, Ptolomey, A. M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2917-1060 and Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2025) From emotional interruptions to wilful disruptions: Zine-making as a post-qualitative method for locating, articulating, navigating, and doing emotion in research. Social Science Research Network, (doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5141755)

Chantler, Khatidja, Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X (2022) Policy and professional responses to forced marriage in Scotland. British Journal of Social Work, 52(2), pp. 833-849. (doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcab068)

Lucas, Siân E., Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Westwood, Joanne (2021) ‘Any d*** can make a baby, but it takes a real man to be a dad’: group work for fathers. Qualitative Social Work, 20(3), pp. 718-737. (doi: 10.1177/1473325020909431)

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Wilks, Lauren (2020) Reframing agency in abusive contexts: beyond ‘free choice’ and ‘open resistance’. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 4(2), p. 295. (doi: 10.1332/239868020x15909982106020)

Mason, W. et al. (2020) Toward full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in case study research: insights from investigating child welfare inequalities. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 14(2), pp. 164-183. (doi: 10.1177/1558689819857972)

Featherstone, Brid, Morris, Kate, Daniel, Brigid, Bywaters, Paul, Brady, Geraldine, Bunting, Lisa, Mason, Will and Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2019) Poverty, inequality, child abuse and neglect: Changing the conversation across the UK in child protection? Children and Youth Services Review, 97, pp. 127-133. (doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.06.009)

Morris, K. et al. (2018) Social work, poverty and child welfare interventions. Child and Family Social Work, 23(3), pp. 364-372. (doi: 10.1111/cfs.12423)

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2018) Reframing agency in abusive contexts: beyond ‘free choice’ and ‘open resistance’. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 2(1), pp. 41-56. (doi: 10.1332/239868017X15127297709475)

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2017) South Asian women’s experience of abuse by female affinal kin: a critique of mainstream conceptualisations of ‘domestic abuse’. Families, Relationships and Societies, 6(3), pp. 393-409. (doi: 10.1332/204674315X14501013130928)

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2017) South Asian women's experiences of family abuse: the role of the husband's mother. Discover Society, 31 Oct.

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2016) The UK government’s conflicting agendas and ‘harmful’ immigration policies: shaping South Asian women’s experiences of abuse and ‘exit’. Critical Social Policy, 36(4), pp. 592-609. (doi: 10.1177/0261018316641239)

Book Sections

Piacentini, Teresa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752, Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Gilmour, Molly (2022) Challenges of language, accessibility and ethics when conducting digital interviews in the virtual space. In: SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. SAGE Publishing. ISBN 9781529601305 (doi: 10.4135/9781529601305)

Mason, Will, Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X and Webb, Calum (2018) Using the framework method to analyze mixed-methods case studies. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781526438683 (doi: 10.4135/9781526438683)

Research Reports or Papers

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X, Bradley, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-7649 and Dickson, Nicola (2025) Diversifying Justice: Revealing Domestic Abuse Realities and Viable Help-seeking Pathways for South Asian Women in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, SCCJR.

Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Chantler, Khatidja, Baker, Victoria, MacKenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X, McCarry, Melanie and Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2017) Understanding Forced Marriage in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Government.

Mirza, Nughmana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-590X (2016) South Asian Women’s Experience of Family Abuse: the Role of the Husband’s Mother. Discussion Paper. Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, Edinburgh.

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 19:43:06 2025 BST.

Grants

ESRC/Scottish Government Studentship 2008

Sociology Small Grants Competition 2019

Supervision

  • Zarkou, Nafsika
    How is mothering a disabled child experienced by Pakistani women in Scotland?

Teaching

I convene and teach two PGTcourses, Qualitative Research Methods, and Gender Relations (Contemporary Approaches to)

Additional information

Member:

Gender Based Violence Forum 2018 - present

Amina - The Muslims Women's Resource Centre 2018 - present

Associate Reseacher:

Centre for Research on Families and Relationships 2018 - present


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