Dr Amira Aftab is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School. Amira’s research centres on the lived experiences of marginalised communities, with a particular interest in examining the gendered nature of institutions (particularly family law and family dispute resolution);  gendered violence; human rights (namely, women's rights and SOGI rights); women’s agency; and more broadly the intersection of gender, culture, religion, and the law. 

Amira is currently working with a multi-institutional team on a project (funded by the James Martin Institute for Public Policy) examining the impacts of COVID19 on domestic and family violence service provision in NSW. Amira also leads a project that looks at the help-seeking experiences of women on temporary visas who experience domestic and family violence. This project involves an evaluation commissioned by Women's Legal Services Australia, as well as collaboration with Immigration Advice and Rights Centre to explore the barriers to help-seeking.

Amira is currently Senior Co-Chair for the Women and Girls’ Rights Subcommittee of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, as well as the 2024 co-President of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Network. Prior to joining Macquarie University, Amira was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University, and received her PhD in law from Macquarie University. Her doctoral thesis explored gender, religion, and state institutions in the context of the Sharia debates in Australia, Canada, and Britain.