Nawal Shaharyar

 

Junior researcher and Lecturer Tallinn University

Country: Pakistan

Academic degrees: 
B.Sc (hons) Sociology and minor in Political Science from Middle East Technical University Turkey
MA in Development Studies University of Sussex UK
Currently enrolled in PhD at Tallinn University

Other positions: 
MIRNET Junior researcher and contact person
ECPR standing comittee Migration and Ethnicity chair

Previous positions:
Visiting Faculty at Department of Sociology in government College University, Lahore
Teacher’s Assistant in Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore
Research Assistant Pakistan
Research Assistant to a Postgraduate Student of Political Science at METU/ODTU, Turkey
Teacher’s Assistant for Introduction to Sociology class, METU/ODTU, Turkey

Research areas: urban spaces, housing inequality, alterities, citizenship

Courses: Research Design (RII6547.YK) ; Research Methods in Social Sciences (YKI6005.YK) ; Research Seminar in Social Sciences (RIE6103.YK);  State, Politics and Government (RIT6101.YK) ; Qualitative Research Methods I (YKI6002.YK)  space

Notable projects:

  • MIRNet
  • ECPR Standing committee

Keynote speeches:

  • ICOM 2020: 22nd International Conference on Ontology and Meta-Ontology, New-York, 10-11 December 2020.Paper title: Between Realist and Relationalist Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology: Paving the Way for a Geographical Dialectic Relationalism through a Synthesis of Bourdieu and Lefebvre.
  • ICUS 2020 : 22nd International Conference on Urban Sociology, Vienna, 24 December 2020 Paper Title: Spatiality as a Locus of Conflicting Discourses on Urban Identity: A Case Study of Russian Minorities in Tallinn Estonia.
  • ASN 2021: (online_ 6-8 May) Paper Presented in Panel on Critical Approaches to Studying East-West Migration.
  • 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference, (Online July 7- 9, 2021)Paper title ‘Critical Dialectic Geography: Space is more than a container in studies of ethnic marginalization”.
  • 2nd International MIRNet Conference (Online_15-16 November, 2021)
  • 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference June 29 - July 1, 2022, Oslo (Hybrid) Panelist in Session #143 panel | SC Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation, paper title Citizenship and its Alterity: Citizenship(s) in relation to Urban Space’.
  • ECPR Joint Sessions, the University of Edinburgh & Online, 19 – 22 April 2022 Workshop chair and Paper presenter:’ Citizenship beyond Binaries: A Critical Dialectic/ Geographic Approach in Conceptualizing Citizenship: a Meta-theoretical and Theoretical Exercise’
  • RE: MIGRATION - Nordic Migration Research Conference 2022 (17-19 August 2022) Panelist in Block 2.1 - REbuilding futures: migrant mobilities, urban rescaling and urban identities, Paper title ‘Conceptualizing citizenship in spatiality: A case study of citizens and alterity in an urban residential neighborhood of Tallinn, Estonia’.