Associate Professor Dr Tahir Abbas FRSA

Sep 2010 - present, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey.
 
[Broadly teaching Sociology of Religion and Ethnicity, Contemporary Social Movements and Sociological Perspectives, with a specific interest in Islam and Muslims].

Jun 2009 – Sep 2010, Academic Consultant, Researcher and Commentator {Head of Research, Policy and International Relations, DEEN International and DEEN Foundation, Dudley; Director, iGuardian Group, Birmingham; Co-host of 'Election Special', TaqbeerTV (April-May 2010)}.

{Developing programmes of conflict resolution, peace-building, de-radicalisation and economic and cultural inter-dependence between the East and the West; developing and supporting research, media and evaluation projects and solutions; engaging with national and international government partners and stakeholders; carrying out FCO and MOJ research consultancy projects; dedicated media projects}.

Sep 2003 – Jun 2009, Founding Director of Birmingham University Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture and Reader in Sociology, Birmingham.

Jan 2001 – Sep 2003, Senior Research Officer, Home Office Research Development and Statistics and Ministry of Justice Research Unit, London.

Sep 1999 – Jan 2001, Director, Race Equality West Midlands, Queen Elizabeth House, The Trinity, Worcester.

Jan 1998 – Sep 1999, ESRC Research Fellow, Birmingham City Business School, Perry Barr, Birmingham.

Jan 1995 – Dec 1997, PhD Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, Coventry.

External Appointments

2012, Schonbrunn Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

2009 – 2011, Honorary University Fellow, Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

2007 – 2009, Centre Fellow, University of Birmingham Centre for Studies in Security and Democracy.

2007 – 2008, Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (an independent centre of the University of Oxford).

1999 – 2001, Associate Fellow, University of Warwick Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations.