Her previous work focused on older women in prison, managing the needs of elders in prison, the meaning of death and dying for prisoners, older LGBT persons, transitions out of custody, the body and dirt. Azrini has a wide interest in the links between criminal justice, ageing and social justice, looking at race, sexuality, gender and social exclusion.
Her current work has led her to conducting the largest studies on former combatants in the Irish Republican Army and the liberation movements in South Africa during the Apartheid regime. This work examines the experiences of female combatants, political protest, prison resistance during the liberation struggle and peace building in South Africa. In 2021, Professor Wahidin and Professor John Brewer published an edited collection entitled: “Ex-combatants’ Voices: Transitioning from War to Peace in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka”. In 2016, she published: “Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland - Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience with Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict”. This book focused on female former politically motivated prisoners in the Irish Republican Army and the role of transitional justice in post-conflict societies.