Dr. Tiba Bonyad - POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

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Biography

Dr. Tiba Bonyad (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher in the BILQIS project at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway. Before joining BILQIS, Tiba was a postdoctoral researcher for the SALAAM project at the University of Limerick and a teaching fellow at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Department of Trinity College Dublin. She was awarded her PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester in 2023. Her PhD project investigated the gendered biopolitics of assisted reproductive technologies in Iran.

Tiba was awarded the joint-winner of the BRISMES 2024 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic. She holds two master's degrees in Gender Studies (Central European University) and Communications Studies (Free University of Brussels) and two BA degrees in Sociology and Communication Studies from the University of Tehran.

Her areas of expertise are in legal sociology, sociology of gender and sexuality, and qualitative methodologies

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