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  7. Rahat Shah

Dr. phil. Rahat Shah

Research Associate
Palliative Medicine
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  • Gender, family, care, and life course research
  • Migration, transnational life courses, and social inequalities
  • Masculinities, work, unemployment, and family transitions
  • Qualitative methods, mixed methods, and research ethics in vulnerable contexts
  • Since 05/2026: Research Associate, Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Augsburg
  • 01/2026 – 04/2026: Research and Teaching Associate, University of Tübingen
  • 04/2025 – 12/2025: Research Associate in the DFG-funded project “Limits of Helping under Conditions of Multiple Crises”, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • 06/2021 – 02/2025: PhD in Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Research Training Group “Doing Transitions” Dissertation: Gender Arrangements and Subjective Experiences of Female Breadwinning Couples in Pakistan
  • 06/2024 – 08/2024: Research stay at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • 09/2023 – 12/2023: Visiting Researcher, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • 08/2016 – 09/2018: Master’s degree in Sociology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 08/2014 – 09/2016: Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
  • 2026: Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellow
  • 2025: Small Gender Project, Goethe University Frankfurt, for the project “Working Mothers at the Crossroad: Exploring the Experiences of Working Mothers in Pakistan”
  • 2023: Visiting Fellowship, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom 2023: Linda Burton Award, American Sociological Association
  • 2021 – 2023: Doctoral Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • 2023 – 2025: Doctoral Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation
  • 2016: Gold Medal, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan, for achieving first position in the Faculty of Sociology
  • Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN)
  • European Sociological Association (ESA)
  • International Sociological Association (ISA)
  • American Sociological Association (ASA)
  • Coordinator for Europe, ISA Research Committee on Gender and Sexuality

Publications and presentations

2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020

2026
Shah Rahat, Shah Sayed Attaullah, Saeed Sadia. Boys don't cry? Rethinking emotions and manhood through SEL in Pakistani secondary schools. Behavioral Sciences 2026;16(3):458. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16030458
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Shah Rahat. Stay-at-home fathers and the everyday remaking of manhood in extended family contexts. The Journal of Men's Studies 2026;34(1):123-144. https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265251350284
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2025
Shah Rahat, Sabir Imran, Zaka Adeela. Interdependence and waithood: exploration of family dynamics and young adults' life course trajectories in Pakistan. Advances in Life Course Research 2025;63:100660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100660
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2024
Shah Rahat. Challenges of doing gender research as a male researcher in Pakistan: reflections from online and in-person fieldwork. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 2024;23:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241230021
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Shah Rahat. Conducting qualitative interviews online and in-person: issues of rapport building and trust. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 2024;55(4):537-558. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2024.4.24580
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Ullah Kefayat, Shah Rahat, Ullah Ihsan. Lived experiences of out-of-school children involved in begging and scavenging: a study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies 2024;19(3):434-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2024.2389376
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Shah Rahat. Navigating non‐normative roles: experiences of female‐breadwinning couples in Pakistan. European Journal of Social Psychology 2024;54(1):251-264. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3013
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2023
Shah Rahat, Shah Sayed Attaullah. Preserving tradition and embracing change: a study of masculinities in Pashtun society. Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle 2023;13:49-78. https://doi.org/10.18452/28185
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Shah Rahat. The social stigmatization of stay-at-home fathers in Pakistan. Men and Masculinities 2023;26(3):435-452. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184x231170143
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2022
Shah Rahat, Hayat Asif, Zaman Muhammad, Sabir Imran. Youth experiences of violence at home, school, and street in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods of Islamabad, Pakistan: troika of violence. Deviant Behavior 2022;43(6):677-690. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2021.1909315
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2021
Shah Rahat, Saeed Sadia, Ali Syed Rashid. Perceptional differences towards Jarga system among different age groups: a quantitative approach. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL) 2021;7(2):114-124.
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Batool Rahat, Fleschenberg Andrea, Glattli Laurent, Haque Aseela, Holz Sarah, Khan Muhammad Salman, Pal Shulagna, Shah Rahat, Tareen Mateeullah. Researching South Asia in pandemic times: of shifting fields, research tools, risks, emotions and research relationships. Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle 2021;11:419-467. https://doi.org/10.18452/24182
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2020
Maryam , Saeed Sadia, Shah Rahat, Jafeer Qurat ul ain. Colonial literary sources and the image of Pashtuns: a historical analysis. Journal of Asian Civilizations 2020;43(2):201-213.
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Shah Rahat, Jafeer Qurat-Ul-Ain, Saeed Sadia, Aslam Saba, Ali Ijaz. Unemployment and social stigma: naming, blaming and shaming of educated youth in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 2020;40(7-8):543-558. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-10-2019-0206
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