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Dr. Nour Mustafa Daoud

Dr. Nour Mustafa Daoud

Assistant Professor

Biography

Dr. Nour Daoud earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Padova in Italy, graduating in 2022 with the distinction of Cum Laude. Her research focused on Gender-based Violence against Women in Migrant Communities.
Dr. Daoud has a broad range of international experience in both academia and industry, having worked in cities such as Amman, Beirut, Jerusalem, London, Rome, Padova, and Utrecht. She spent four years teaching at LUMSA University in Rome and four years as a research fellow at the University of Padova. She also contributed to the Refugee Law Initiative at the University of London for two years.
In addition to her academic work, Dr. Daoud served as a research consultant at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. She later held the position of Senior Analysis and Evidence Advisor at the ICRC’s Middle East and North Africa Office, overseeing various humanitarian projects with budgets exceeding 1 million USD.
Dr. Daoud serves as a peer reviewer for several academic journals, including Violence Against Women (Sage), Gender Studies (Taylor & Francis), and Refugee Survey Quarterly (University of Oxford). She is also an active member of the European Sociological Association and the Italian Sociological Association.

Education
  • Ph.D. in Social Sciences: Interaction, Communication, and Cultural Construction (Curriculum: Sociology), University of Padova, Italy, 2018–2022, awarded Cum Laude. The Ph.D. was funded by a full scholarship from the University of Padova, totaling 57,600 Euros over four years.
  • Ph.D. Visiting Fellowship, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, at the Research School of Gender Studies, 2019.
  • MA in Sociology of Gender, University of Jordan, Jordan, 2010–2013, with a GPA of 3.91/4.
Areas of Experties
  • Higher-Education Teaching
  • Qualitative Research
  • Curriculum and Academic Program Development
  • Strategic Development
  • Project Management
  • Grant Writing
  • Stakeholder Relationship Management
  • Technical Report Writing
  • Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Budget Management
  • Leadership
  • Partnerships and Networking
Research Areas of Interest
  • Family Violence
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Sociology of Women and Gender
  • Feminism
  • Feminist Post-structuralism
  • Intersectionality
  • Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
  • Narrative Analysis
  • Migrant Communities
  • Middle East and Gulf Region Studies
Publications

Journal Publications/Conference Papers

  • Daoud, N. (2021). “I Will Stay with Him through Thick and Thin”: Factors Influencing the Incidence and Persistence of Intimate Partner Violence against Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 19(2), 170–183. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2020.1754993
  • Daoud, N. (2019). Counting the uncounted burdens: intimate partner violence in migrant communities - systematic review of the literature. International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies, 3(2), 126. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijgsds.2019.10023662
  • El Kharouf, A., & Daoud, N. (2019). Gender Role Attitudes among Higher Education Students in Jordan. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 10(4), 63–75. https://doi.org/10.2478/mjss-2019-0053
  • Daoud, N. (2018). Debating the role of patriarchy in the incidence of gender-based violence against women in Jordan. 8th International Conference on Languages, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences. London, UK.
  • Daoud. N. (2018). Higher Education Students’ Perceptions of Gender Equality in Jordan: A Feminist Post-Structuralist Exploration. International Conference on Social Science, Humanities, and Education - Diamond Scientific Publishing. Berlin, Germany.

Manuscripts in Preparation (Drafts Available)

  • Daoud, N. “Discourses Shaping the Field of Gender-based Violence against Women: A Narrative Literature Review.”
  • Daoud, N. “Domestic Violence against Refugee Women in the Middle East: A Feminist Post-structuralist Discourse Analysis.”
  • Daoud, N. “Beyond Gender: An Intersectional Analysis of Syrian Refugee Women’s Lived Experiences in Jordan.”
  • Daoud, N. “The Interplay between Public and Private Spaces: Geographies of Violence against Migrant Women.”

Presentations:

  • Daoud, N. (2022, June). “An Intersectional Examination of Syrian Refugee Women's Experiences with Intimate Partner Violence in Jordan” Paper presented virtually at the 6th annual conference of the refugee law initiative titled: Improving the Global Refugee Regime: From Theory to Practice?’, University of London, UK.
  • Daoud, N. (2020, April). “The Intersectional Position of Syrian Women in Jordan and its Impact on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Experiences”. Paper presented virtually at the 3rd International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR 2020), University of Reading, UK.
  • Daoud, N. (2019, September). “...always together despite troubling circumstances or setbacks”: Factors Fueling and Prolonging Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) against Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan. Paper presented at the IV Conferenza Nazionale delle Dottroande and dei Dottornadi in Scienze Sociali, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
  • Daoud, N. (2019, August). “I asked for it...I provoked him”: Syrian Refugee Women’s Narratives of Intimate Partner Violence in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan. Paper presented at the European Sociological Association Conference, Manchester, UK.
  • Daoud, N. (2019, April). A Triangulated Study of Intimate Partner Violence in Syrian Refugee Communities in Jordan. Paper presented as a poster at the 2nd International Conference on Gender Research Studies, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.
  • Daoud, N. (2018, June). An Ecological Review of Literature: Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Refugee and Internally Displaced Communities. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Gender Studies “(De)constructing Femininity and Masculinity”, University of London, London, UK.
  • Daoud, N. (2018, May). Intimate Partner Violence in Migrant Communities: Why Feminist Poststructuralism Analysis? Paper presented at the Giornata di Studi “La libertà è una passeggiata”, IAPH Italia, Rome, Italy.