I am a feminist STS researcher and a founding member of the Queer Death Studies Network https://queerdeathstudies.net/. In my research, I explore material-discursive entanglements and situated practices through which life/death, bodies, gender, ageing, subjectivities, and care come to matter in various locations. Often combining intersectionality with feminist posthumanities/new materialism and digital humanities. Since 2023, I have been working on a new project, Ageing Well with Digital Technologies, which explores the situated materialisation of inclusiveness and independence within the context of welfare technologies implementation for older adults in Sweden. This project is part of the Digital Health Innovation program (DHINO), funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Region of Värmland, which ends in 2026 https://www.kau.se/ctf/dhino. Since June 2025, I have been part of another research program, Operationalising Human Rights in the Design of AI-supported Digital Health, funded by KK-Stiftelsen.
Network member
Tara Mehrabi, PhD
Senior lecturer in Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden
External links
Publications
Lykke, L., Mehrabi, T., Radomska, M., eds. (fothcoming 2025). The International Handbook of Queer Death Studies. Routledge.
Kontturi, K., Leppänen, T., Mehrabi, T., Tiainen M., eds., (2025). New Materialisms and Intersectionality: Making Middles Matter. Routledge Intersectionality Series. ISBN 9781032518015.
Mehrabi, T. & Straube, W. (2024). “Unsettling Intimacies: On world-making practices with the Other in Minoosh Zomorodinia’s mixed-media installation Knots and Ripples”. NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 1–15.