Saide is an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods whose research interrogates the socio-material politics of data and knowledge in contexts of gender-based violence, human rights, and social justice. Grounded in Sociology and shaped by an interdisciplinary background in Communications (BA) and Global Studies (MA), her work examines how power, knowledge, and truth are entangled in conditions of inequality. Her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge analysed feminicide data practices in Mexico, tracing how data on gender-based killings are mobilised across institutional and grassroots settings. Using a relational and collaborative design, the project combined interviews, participatory action research, interface analysis, and autoethnography to demonstrate that feminicide is not only a crisis of gendered violence but also a crisis of knowledge—raising questions of whose deaths are counted, whose are erased, and how infrastructures render violence visible or invisible.
Saide’s methodological approach, grounded in feminist scholarship, conceives of methods as interventions that actively shape what can be known. She develops critical, reflexive, relational, and situated practices that interrogate power, embrace ambiguity and multiplicity, and foreground positionality and care. Her research includes collaborative projects that explore the use of digital tools for human-rights advocacy and reimagine data practices for social accountability. Alongside this, Saide has taught qualitative methods and research design in diverse international contexts. Her pedagogy is student-centred and critically engaged, creating learning environments that connect methodological rigour with reflexivity, inclusivity, and social impact.
Books
Dawson, Myrna and Saide Mobayed Vega, eds. 2023. The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide, Routledge.
Journal Articles
Mobayed Vega, Saide. 2025. ‘Recounting Feminicide: The Relational Accountability of Citizen Data Practices’, Feminist Media Studies.
Mobayed Vega, Saide. 2024. ‘Feminicide: Unravelling the State’s Data Infrastructures’. Critical Sociology.
Mobayed Vega, Saide and Maria Gargiulo. 2024. ‘Querying Feminicide Data in Mexico’. International Sociology.
Mobayed Vega, Saide. 2022. ‘Recontar feminicidios. Activismo de datos en México’, in Fernández de la Reguera, Alethia and Fabiola de Lachica Huerta (eds.), 25N Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la mujer. Opiniones Técnicas sobre Temas de Relevancia Nacional. Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, núm. 59.
Mobayed Vega, Saide. 2020. ‘Comparing Femi(ni)icide: The Perils of Turning Data into Action’, in Hemblade Helen and Helena Gabriel (eds), Femicide XIII: Data Collection. United Nations Studies Association Vienna.
Book Chapters
Madrigal, Sonia, Mobayed Vega Saide, Ramírez Ramírez Ivonne and Helena Suárez Val. 2024 (in publication process). ‘Textures of Memory. Resisting Feminicide through Remembrance’ in Amaral Fernanda and Stuart Price, eds., Cultures of Resistance in Contemporary Latin America: activism, memory, and social change in the Global South.
In The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide:
Mobayed Vega, Saide. ‘Femi(ni)cide: A Global Archaeology of Knowledge’.
Mobayed Vega, Saide, Sonia M. Frías, Fabiola de Lachica Huerta, and Aleida Luján-Pinelo. ‘Feminicide in Mexico’.
Dawson, Myrna and Saide Mobayed Vega. ‘Femicide and Feminicide: A Growing Global Human Rights Movement’.
Collectif Féminicides Par Compagnons ou Ex, Feminizidmap, Kathomi Gatwiri, Savia Hasanova, Anna Kapushenko, Lyubava Malysheva, Saide Mobayed Vega, Audrey Mugeni, Rosalind Page, Ivonne Ramírez, Helena Suárez Val, Dawn Wilcox, and Aimee Zambrano Ortiz. ‘Feminicide and Data Activism’.
Illesinghe, Vathsala, Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven, Femi(ni)cide Watch Poland, Feminicidio.net, Observatorio de Feminicidios, Observatorio feminicidios Colombia - Red feminista antimilitarista, Shalva Weil, Myrna Dawson, and Saide Mobayed Vega. ‘Femicide/feminicide Observatories and Watches’.
Zecha, Angelika, Naeemah Abrahams, Karine Duhamel, Cristina Fabré, Alejandra Otamendi, Alejandra Rios Cazares, Heidi Stöckl, Myrna Dawson, and Saide Mobayed Vega. ‘Data Sources and Challenges in Addressing Femicide and Feminicide’.
Other
Alvarado García Adriana, Feldfeber Ivana, Miceli Milagros, Mobayed Vega Saide and Helena Suárez Val. 2022. ‘Crossing Data: Building Bridges with Activist and Academic Practices from and for Latin America’. CHI EA ‘22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. No.: 82.
Landré, Henrike, Mobayed Vega, Saide, Filip, Andrada, Platzer, Michael and Sixtl Chelsey (ed. board). 2019. ‘FEMICIDE XII: Living Victims of Femicide’, United Nations Studies Association (UNSA), Vienna Liaison Office.
López-Padilla, Isabel, Mobayed Vega, Saide and Laurie Chambon. 2018. ‘Georeferenced Maps on Violence against Women in the State of Nuevo Leon’. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mexico.
Mobayed, Saide. 2017. ‘Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage in Kenya: The Local Response to Global Norms’. Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals.
Mobayed, Saide. 2016. ‘Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda’. Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA).