Dr Marzana Kamal
LECTURER IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
School of Social Science
0151 291 3554
kamalm@hope.ac.uk
I am a lecturer in Sociological Studies at Liverpool Hope University. I joined the School of social sciences as a post-doctoral teaching fellow in February 2021. I received my PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Bangor University in 2020. As a graduate teaching assistant and teaching associate I taught Sociology and Criminology at Bangor University between 2018 and 2020. Before this, I completed an MA in Gender and International Development from the University of Warwick in 2015.
My research interest is focused on migration, gender, and diasporic studies. My doctoral research explored the impact of labour migration on gender and cultural norms in Bangladesh. This research was funded by the Bangor University School of Social Science Scholarship 2016. My work from this research has been published as journal articles in Contemporary South Asia, Feminist Dissent, and NORMA. I regularly present my work at international conferences and research seminars.
Currently, I am conducting qualitative research on the everyday life experience of migrant men and women in low-paid jobs.
Publications:
Kamal, M. (2024) Climate change and women’s unpaid labour in South Asia. [blog post].
LSE South Asia Centre, 06 May. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2024/05/06/climate-change-and-womens-unpaid-labour-in-south-asia/
Kamal, M. (2024). Multiple masculinities of labour migrants: how Bangladeshi migrant men rationalize gender norms in their home country. NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, 19(1), 39-53. DOI: 10.1080/18902138.2023.2247923
Kamal, M. (2022). Teen Brides, Migrant Husbands and Religious Schooling: an Analysis of Young Women’s Experiences of Marriage and Schooling in Rural Bangladesh. Feminist Dissent, (6), 159-181. DOI: 10.31273/fd.n6.2022.746
Kamal, M. (2022). Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh. Contemporary South Asia, 30(1), 112-123.
DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2021.2021853