Dr Zoha Waseem is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick (UK) and a Co-Coordinator of the international network of academics, the Urban Violence Research Network. She is the author of the book “Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi” (published by Hurst and Oxford University Press in 2022). She is also co-editor of the volume, “Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security, and Social Order” (Bristol University Press, 2023). 

Zoha is broadly interested in policing and security cultures, pluralisation of policing, urban insecurity, criminal violence, militarisation, migration, and postcolonial perspectives on policing, security and criminal justice. Her research has been published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Policing and Society, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. She frequently contributes her commentary and analysis to news media platforms in Pakistan as well as international news and academic outlets.