SWGI STUDENT GRANTEES

The Saida Waheed Gender Initiative offered small grants for student-led research projects and senior projects that focused on or used gender and sexuality as a major analytical tool. Undergraduate students from all departments and schools at LUMS were welcomed to apply. During this semester, we funded three senior research projects. The grantees of this cycle were:

• Marha Fathma and Muhammad Faizan ul Haq – A New Man? Masculinities in the Post #MeToo World
• Rameen Iftikhar and Ramsha Fatima – Popularity or Power: Does the Accumulation of Social Capital in Higher Education Settings in Pakistan Increase Women’s Agency?
• Aamina Shekha, Nisma Riaz and Shamaim Kirmani – Investigating How Young Women in Pakistan Employ Fashion as a Tool of Resistance Against Patriarchal Gender and Cultural Norms

SWGI FACULTY GRANTEES

The Saida Waheed Gender Initiative provided grants to faculty for the pursuit of creative and interdisciplinary research and projects relating to gender and sexuality in Pakistan. In line with our mission and philosophy, the Initiative sought to promote approaches that attended to the shifting and contested meanings of gender across different contexts. The grantee of this cycle was:

• Dr. Tania Saeed – Intergenerational Knowledge amongst Women: From Sex Education to Menopause