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Arshia U. Zaidi
PhD

Associate Professor

Criminology and Justice

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Contact information

Bordessa Hall - Room 327
Downtown Oshawa
55 Bond Street East
Oshawa, ON

905.721.8668 ext. 3443

arshia.zaidi@ontariotechu.ca

Background

Dr. Arshia U. Zaidi is an Associate Professor at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario.  She received her PhD in Sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Zaidi is a methodologist who uses qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches to better understand the social and generational issues of the South Asian family. Her theoretical lens of intersectionality helps her cultivate the social explanations surrounding these critical matters.  Additionally, Dr. Zaidi has received SSHRC funding to address her research agenda and mobilize knowledge.  Dr. Zaidi uses her South Asian ethnic identity to create trust and collaboration within these communities to build knowledge forward.

Education

  • PhD, Sociology Wayne State University
  • MA, Sociology University of Windsor
  • BA (Hon), Psychology University of Windsor
  • BSc, General University of Windsor

Courses taught

Undergraduate:

  • Data Analysis 1 (SSCI 2910U)
  • Advanced Data Analysis 2 (SSCI 3910U)
  • Integrating Projects (CRMN 4099U)
  • Sociological Theories of Criminology (CRMN 2810U)
  • Honours Thesis (SSCI 4101U and 4102U)
  • ST: Methods (CRMN 4001U)

Graduate:

  • Advanced Data Analysis 1 Graduate (SSCI 5010G)
  • Advanced Multivariate Data Analysis 2 Graduate (SSCI 5030G)
  • Graduate supervision for MA/PhD and major papers

Research and expertise

Research background and interests:

  • intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors
  • issues of immigration, assimilation and acculturation
  • race, gender, sexuality and family generational issues
  • survivors of elderly abuse
  • power of information communication technology/social media in IPV and immigrant youth
  • methodological issues in the field (insider/outsider; community partnerships)
  • Islamophobia
  • human trafficking 

Research supervision areas:

  • intimate partner violence in immigrant families
  • quantitative/qualitative methodologies
  • race, gender, sexuality, family and culture
  • socio-cultural issues of immigration
  • survivors of elderly abuse
  • information communication technology social media/technology usage
  • generational issues
  • Islamophobia
  • SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. Differential Impacts of Transition to Remote Academic Labour at GTA Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Arshia U. Zaidi (Co-investigator) with Natalie Oman (Principal Investigator). 
    • 2021-2022
  • SSHRC Insight Grant. An Era of Islamophobia: Navigating the Dynamics of Ethnic Identities, Social Exclusion and Emotional Well-being among South Asian Muslim Youth in Canada. Arshia U. Zaidi (Principal Investigator) with Barbara Perry.
  • 2020-2022
  • SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. COVID-19 and Sex Trafficking: Understanding Intersections and Amplification of Precarity for Survivors of Labour Exploitation in the Sex Industry in the Durham Region. Arshia U. Zaidi (Co-investigator) and Olga Marques (Principal Investigator).
  • 2020-2021
  • SSHRC Internal Grant. Swipe Right: The Social Media “Hook-up” Culture for Racialized Women in Postsecondary Institutions. Arshia U. Zaidi and Olga Marques (collaborators).
  • 2019-2020

Teaching awards at Ontario Tech University:

  • September 2020 - Nominated for Ontario Tech Teaching Faculty Award
  • December 2011 - Recipient of FSSH Teaching Faculty Award

Involvement

  • Recent publications

    2024 A Guide for Statistical Tests & Interpretation with SPSS (2024), Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London UK. 

    Zaidi, A. U. (2024) An Unseen Methodological Crisis: (Forced) Adaptations to On-Line Qualitative Methodological Encounters, Disruptions and Challenges during the COVID-19 Pandemic for researching Marginalized Individuals on Gendered Islamophobia in Canada.

    Tasbiha, N.S. & Zaid, A.U. (2023). They psycho-social factors that escalate IPV among South Asian Women in North America: An intersectional approach and analysis. Journal of Human Behaviour in the Social Environment, 1-49.

    Couture-Carron, A., Zaidi, A. U., & Ammar, N. H (2021). Battered immigrant women and the police: a Canadian perspective. International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 0306624X20986534.

    Zaidi, Arshia U. (2020). Aging in the Prison Population. Criminology, eds. B. Perry, Oxford University Press.

    Ammar, N. & Zaidi, A.U. (June 2019). Methodological challenges in doing collaborative- research with immigrant women experiencing intimate partner violence in Canada in Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research, eds M. Deflem & D. Silva.

    Shahid Alvi & Arshia Zaidi (November 2019) “My Existence is not Haram”: Intersectional Lives in LGBTQ Muslims Living in Canada, Journal of Homosexuality, DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1695422

    Ammar, N. & Zaidi, A.U. (June 2019). Methodological challenges in doing collaborative- research with immigrant women experiencing intimate partner violence in Canada in Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research, eds M. Deflem & D. Silva.

    Shahid Alvi & Arshia Zaidi (November 2019) “My Existence is not Haram”: Intersectional Lives in LGBTQ Muslims Living in Canada, Journal of Homosexuality, DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1695422

    Alvi, S., & Zaidi, A. U. (2017). Invisible Voices: An Intersectional Exploration of Quality of Life for Elderly South Asian Immigrant Women in a Canadian Sample. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1-24.

  • Recent conference presentations

    2017 November Should IPV Agencies in Canada be better equipped with Mental Health Experts and Counselling? Philadelphia, PA (Zaidi/Ammar/Couture-Carron)-Abstract accepted for roundtable discussion.

    “911-Please State Your Emergency”: (Ammar & Zaidi) An Exploration of How Immigrant Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Survivors Reach Out and Experience Police Services in Canada-Accepted and Presenting November 2016.

    Challenging Tradition: An Exploratory Study of Experiences of Canadian Muslim Homosexual (CMH) Youth who “Come Out of the Closet,” presented June 24 to 25 at conference at Brescia University College in London, Ontario.

    June 2015. Qualitative Analysis Conference at Brescia University College from June 25 to 27, Zaidi, A.U. Challenging Traditions: An Exploratory Study on Muslim Homosexuality.

    2014 American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, California (November), Ammar, N., Zaidi, A.U. Methodological challenges in doing collaborative-research “community partnership” advocacy research on intimate partner violence survivors in Canada.