Kaveri Qureshi

Dr Kaveri Qureshi is one of the Co-Directors of GENDER.ED, and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Science. She has an interdisciplinary background between critical public health, anthropology and sociology. She works on intersectional inequalities in health and work; family and intimate life; and relationships between health and family. In wider collaborative work, she leads lines of inquiry around intersectional inequalities and coloniality.

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.

Her recent outputs include:

• Majid, H., K. Qureshi and K.A. Siegmann (eds.) (2026) Gender at work in Pakistan. London: Routledge.
• Grover, S. and K. Qureshi (eds.) (2026) Divorce portals: the postdivorce in Asian contexts. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
• Sochas, L., K. Qureshi and P. Kreager (eds.) (2025) Reproductive vulnerabilities: a critical perspective. Special issue of Journal of Critical Public Health, Vol. 2 No. 3.
• Jeffery, P. and K. Qureshi (eds.) (2024) 'Muslim Woman'/Muslim women: lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas. London: Routledge.