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Profile

I am an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender and a former doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology.

My research focuses on ecosystems of harm and digital technologies, with an emphasis on gender, migration, and extremism. I am interested in understanding how social harms emerge and spread, and how research can inform policy, institutional responses, and strategies to support affected communities. I specialise in qualitative research methods, with a strong interest in feminist methodologies.

I hold master鈥檚 degrees in Sociology and Gender Studies from the University of Leeds and the Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona. I went on to complete an ESRC-funded PhD at the 91影视破解版, where I explored Spanish anti-gender movements through an ethnography of religion, nationalism, and affect. In 2021, I worked with the Counter Extremism Unit at the Home Office as part of a UKRI-funded role, and in 2022, I was an ESRC-funded visiting researcher in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. I later worked for the UK Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC).

Recent Publications

Obst, M. and Louis, A. (2026). 鈥淚鈥檓 a Bitch鈥�: Eurovision and the Anti-Gender Backlash 鈥� a Spanish Case Study. Modern Languages Open, 2026(1), 14, pp. 1鈥�15.

Obst, M. (2025). Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups. Qualitative Research, 25(5), pp. 1022鈥�1040.

Bayerl, P. S., Obst, M., Spencer, J., Snowden, M. and Akhgar, B. (2025). Privacy Strategies for Police Personnel: Co-designing a Self-Assessment Tool. In Software Engineering Research and Practice and e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government, pp. 172鈥�186. Springer.

Obst, M. and Ablett, L. (2024). 鈥楾hey Put You in a False Dichotomy鈥�: In Search of Conceptual Diversity Through the Spanish 鈥楢nti-Gender鈥� Landscape. In Transnational Anti-Gender Politics: Feminist Solidarity in Times of Global Attacks, pp. 225鈥�244. Palgrave Macmillan.

Obst, M. (2024). Not in the mood for gender and feminism. Exploring affect and expertise through Spanish anti-gender movements. Women's Studies International Forum, 104, 102892.

Bayerl, P. S., Obst, M. and Akhgar, B. (2023). International Citizen Consultation on AI Accountability in Policing. AP4AI Report 3. CENTRIC. (PDF)