employment

Jun 2009 – present, Head of Research, Policy and International Relations, DEEN Foundation

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.

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

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.