SONIA QADIR
Email
s.qadir@unsw.edu.au
Sonia Qadir is a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).
She is a critical legal scholar with an interdisciplinary focus whose work spans security technologies, state violence and criminal justice; (post-)coloniality and resistance in the Global South and the Muslim world, as well as questions of legal regulation and ecological impact of technology. As part of her commitment to socially impactful, activist research, Sonia has worked closely with social movements and employs ethnographic methods in her research.
Sonia’s doctoral project, undertaken at UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice through the Scientia PhD Scholarship, investigates the postcolonial security state in Pakistan and its deployment of security laws and technologies against racialised communities and progressive movements in the backdrop of the War on Terror.
Sonia has long been involved in activist and feminist spaces and is currently an editorial board member of the Australian Feminist Law Journal. She is also an alum of the Fulbright Master’s Program and Australia Awards Fellowship.
