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SARA LIAQUAT
Aspiration Statement
I want to pursue my masters and PhD in either Sociology or Development Studies. Since qualitative research is a field which I’m extremely passionate about, I want to pursue a career as a researcher (working in a reputed think tank) initially and then later on as an academic.
Core Skills
- Qualitative Research Skills
- Report Writing
- Stata
- MAXQDA
- Coding & Data Analysis (for qualitative research)
- Power BI
- Speculative & Critical Design Thinking
Academic Awards / Achievements
- San Diego State University - MA Sociology
- High Leap Scholarship, Fall 2018
- Presented my paper titled ‘A Post-Colonial Feminist Analysis of 19th Century North Indian Muslim
- Reformist Writers at the LUMS SWGI Conference in April 2019
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Learn Abroad Program
- Habib University Feminist Collective - Treasurer & Advisor
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Interactive Research & Development - Internal Monitor
- Legal Aid Society - Research Associate
- UBL Digital Design Lab - Research Intern
- Collective for Social Science Research - Intern
- Arif Hasan – (funded by World Bank) - Intern
- Habib University – Research Assistant
- Pakistan Herald Publications - Intern
- BERLITZ - Summer Camp Instructor
Publications / Creative Projects
- Challenges of Identity and Education among Afghan Ismaili Migrant Women in Karachi.
- Agency, Negotiations and Bargains in the Nikkahnama and during Marriage: Experiences of Three Married Female University Students.
Final Year Project
Project Title
The State of Affairs Surrounding Sex Reassignment Surgeries Conducted on Transgender and Intersex Individuals in Pakistan.
Description
My thesis is an exploratory qualitative research study which aims to explore the state of affairs surrounding sex reassignment surgeries that are conducted on transgender and intersex individuals in Karachi, Pakistan. It aims to find out how SRS is perceived, performed and experienced by the various stakeholders involved in the field. It utilizes purposive and snowball sampling methods to interview (and conduct FGDs with) the relevant stakeholders involved in the field (such as intersex experts, doctors, transgender individuals, intersex individuals, psychologists, lawyers, trans-rights activists etc.).