Kaveri Qureshi

Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED, a Senior Lecturer in Global Health Equity at the School of Social and Political Science, and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships. She has an interdisciplinary background in sociology, anthropology and public health. She is on the Editorial Collective of Medicine, Anthropology, Theory.  She also writes reviews for a variety of journals.

Kaveri’s research interests include:

• Health inequalities
• Chronic disease
• Mental health
• Relationship breakdown and divorce
• Gender-based violence
• Reproductive & child health

Her major projects to date address:

1. Racial/ethnic and class-based inequalities in non-communicable disease and debility in the UK, and their impoverishing effects in the context of welfare reform
2. Marital conflicts and mental ill health associated with gender inequalities and gender violence among South Asian minorities in the UK, highlighting the compromising of women’s rights through the privatization of marital dispute settlement
3. Intersectional inequalities in maternal and child health in Pakistan, specifically how social locations differentiate women’s reproductive and caring experiences.
4. Most recently: COVID-19, highlighting how social inequalities shape experiences of infection and recovery, and of Long Covid in families.

Her recent outputs include:

• Pooley, S. and Qureshi, K. (2022) Parenthood between generations: transforming reproductive cultures . Oxford, Berghahn.
• Jeffery, P. and Qureshi, K. (2022) Muslim Woman/Muslim women. Special issue of Contemporary South Asia journal.
• Petit, V., K. Qureshi, Y. Charbit and P. Kreager (eds.) (2020) The anthropological demography of health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Qureshi, K. (2019) Chronic illness in a Pakistani labour diaspora. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
• Qureshi, K. and E. Rahman (eds.) (2017) Infant feeding: medicalization, the state and techniques of the body. Special secion of Women’s Studies International Forum.
• Qureshi, K. (2016) Marital breakdown among British Asians. London: Palgrave.