The following are links to my various academic, professional, and social media profiles. For a comprehensive list of my published work, please visit Google Scholar.
Academic and Research Positions
Professor of Criminology and Global Justice, Aston University, 2025 –
Professor of Radicalisation Studies, Leiden University, 2018-2025 [Assistant Professor, 2018-2020; Associate Professor, 2020-2022]
Senior Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, 2016-2018
Professor of Sociology, Istanbul University, 2010-2016 [Professor, 2012-2016; Associate Professor, 2010-2012]
Reader (Associate Professor) in Sociology, University of Birmingham, 2003-2010 [Reader, 2006-2010; Senior Lecturer, 2005-2006; Lecturer, 2003-2005] and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture
Senior Research Officer, Lord Chancellor’s Department Research Unit, London, UK, 2002-2003
Senior Research Officer, Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate, London, UK, 2000-2002
Director, Race Equality West Midlands, Worcester, UK, 1999-2000
ESRC Research Fellow, University of Central England Business School, UK, 1997-1999
PhD Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK, 1995-1997
University Affiliations
Fellow, Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity, Netherlands, 2021-
Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Government, London School of Economics, UK, 2017-2019
Remarque Visiting Fellow, New York University, USA, 2015-2016
Visiting Professor, Leiden Institute for Religious Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2013
Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School for Islamic Studies of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, Indonesia, 2012
Iqbal Fellow, Institute for Research and Dialogue, International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan, 2012
Schonbrunn Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, 2012
Honorary University Fellow, Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK, 2009-2011
Fellow, Centre for Studies in Security and Democracy, University of Birmingham, UK, 2007-2009
Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK, 2007-2008
Associate Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK, 1999-2001
Fellowships and Memberships
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), 2021-
Member of the Editorial Board, ICCT Research Journal (NL), 2021-
Member of Editorial Board, Sociology (Sage, UK), 2006-2008, 2026-
Associate Editor of Critical Muslim (the quarterly magazine of the Muslim Institute, published by Hurst in London), 2016-
Member of Editorial Board, Bandung: Journal of the Global South (Brill, NL), 2014-
Member of Editorial Board, Sociology of Islam (Brill, NL), 2012-2016
Co-Chair of Mosaic West Midlands Advisory Board (supported by HRH Prince of Wales), 2009-2010
Member of the Advisory Group on Faith, The Charity Commission, 2008-2010
Chair, Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel, West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service, 2007-2010