Rabiya Ali is currently working at University of Limerick. She has worked in a range of community and advocacy organisations across the Mid-West of Ireland including Ascend Domestic Abuse Service (NTDC) in North Tipperary, ADAPT Domestic Abuse Service, PAUL Partnership, Doras, and the Mid-West Regional Drug and Alcohol Forum. She has also been a voluntary member of the Board of Management of Changing Ireland and Silver Arch Family Resource Centre (NTCS).

She continues to work towards the prevention of violence against women in her position as a consultant with the Council of Europe, European Institute of Gender Equality, and the UN's International Organisation for Migration’s  Protect projects funded by the Department of Justice.  

She is researching whether  societal, policy and media responses to incidents of domestic violence, particularly in the context of femicide, vary depending on the ethnicity of the victim in Ireland (2016-2022).

She is using a case-study method to analyse media and public discourse in cases of femicide, juxtaposing the victim’s relationship with the perpetrator as well as the victim’s ethnicity.

This research will further analyse existing policy and legislation in Ireland and selected jurisdictions to assess whether they address victims’ needs, and if these findings can be applied to improve responses to all violence against women in all contexts and across ethnicities in Ireland. Rabiya’s doctoral research is supervised by Dr Susan Leahy (School of Law) and Dr James Carr (Sociology department), both in the faculty of AHSS.