Dr. Saide Mobayed Vega

Biography

Saide Mobayed Vega is an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods with a focus on socio-material politics, data knowledge contexts, gender-based violence, human rights, and social justice. Her interdisciplinary background includes a B.A. in Communications and an M.A. in Global Studies, emphasizing how power, knowledge, and truth are intertwined with conditions of inequality. Her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge analyzed feminicide data practices in Mexico, emphasizing how data on gender-based killings is mobilized across institutional and grassroots settings. Her methodological approach combines interviews, participatory action research, interface analysis, and autoethnography to explore practices surrounding the feminicide crisis and gendered violence. Saide's research includes innovative digital tools for human-rights advocacy and socio-political accountability. In addition to her research, she has taught qualitative methods and research design in various international contexts, fostering inclusive learning environments that merge methodological rigor with social impact. She has published extensively, contributing to books and journal articles focused on feminicide and data activism within feminist scholarship.

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