Badri was a part-time lecturer at Ahfad University for Women from 1974 to 1997, and full-time since then, where she is now professor of social anthropology.[2] In 2002 she founded and became the inaugural director of the AUW Institute of Women, Gender and Development Studies.[2] Badri is the Director of the Ahfad University for Women's Regional Institute of Gender, Diversity, Peace and Rights, in Omdurman/Khartoum.[2] In 1979, she introduced women and gender-related studies to the university curriculums.[1]