Research

Research Interests

Human Fertility, family planning, reproductive health, family transformation and childbearing, health inequality over the life course, integration of immigrants in Canada, measuring social values and attitudes

Research Projects

2019-2023. Principal Investigator in project entitled “Transformed intimate relationships and low fertility: Examining the fertility influence of spousal intimate relationships” SSHRC Insight Grant (IG), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

2019-2020. Principal Investigator in project entitled “Why is the male traditional contraception method so prevalent in the Central and Western Asia? The case of Iran” SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

2018-2020. Principal Investigator (co-investigator: Hatam Hosseini) in project entitled “Does the intimate ‘pure relationship’ influence fertility levels, intentions and preferences?” Funded jointly by Nipissing University (Canada) and Bu-Ali Sina University (Iran).

2017-2019. Co-Principal Investigator (with Kambiz Abachizadeh) in project entitled “Study of the status of breast cancer and related factors in Iran”. Funded by ​Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran.

2014-2016. Co-Principal Investigator in project entitled “The study of determinant factors of unwanted pregnancy, induced abortion, and inequality in birth intervals among married women in the city of Hamedan, Iran.” Funded by Iran University of Medical Sciences.

2014-2015. Principal Investigator in project entitled “The 2014 Tehran Survey of Fertility: Investigating changes in fertility rates and childbearing behaviors,” Funded by National Population Studies and Comprehensive Management Institute, Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

2012-2014. Principal Investigator in project entitled “The 2012 Tehran Survey of Fertility Intentions: an investigation on low fertility in Iran.” Funded by Population Studies and Research Center for Asia and Pacific, Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

2011-2012. Principal Investigator in project entitled “The impact of family planning and the delayed transition to motherhood on women’s empowerment.” Funded by International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), USA.

2011-2013. Principal Investigator in project entitled “The continuing use of withdrawal (coitus interruptus) as the primary method of contraception in Tehran, Iran: The Determinants, rationales, and failure rates.” Funded by Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

2011-2013. Principal Investigator in project entitled “The continuing use of withdrawal in Tehran, Iran: The Determinants, rationales, and failure rates.” Funded by Internal Research Grant (IRG), Nipissing University, Canada.

2009-2011. Principal Investigator in project entitled “The 2009 Tehran Survey of Fertility: levels, trends, determinants, and policy challenges of fertility, family planning, and abortion behaviors of married women in Tehran, Iran.” Funded by Population Studies and Research Center for Asia and Pacific, Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

2009. Principal Investigator in project entitled “Reproductive health status of Iranian married women.” Funded by Start-Up Research Grant, Nipissing University