Below is a list of academic and professional positions. For information on lectures and talks delivered since 2015, visit the presentations page.
Current Position
2018-, Professor of Radicalisation Studies, Institute of Strategic and Global Affairs, Leiden University in The Hague, Netherlands [Associate Professor, 2020-2021, Assistant Professor, 2018-2020]
Previous Positions
2016-2018, Senior Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, London, UK
2010-2016, Professor of Sociology (2012-2016), Associate Professor (2010-2012), Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
2003-2009, Reader in Sociology (2006-2009), Senior Lecturer (2003-2005), and Lecturer (2005-2006), and Director of Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, University of Birmingham, UK
2002-2003, Senior Research Officer, Lord Chancellor’s Department Research Unit, London, UK
2000-2002, Senior Research Officer, Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate, London, UK
1999-2000, Director, Race Equality West Midlands, Worcester, UK
1997-1999, Research Fellow, University of Central England Business School, UK
1995-1997, Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK
Fellowships and Awards
2023-2026, Honorary Professor, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK
2021-present, Fellow of the Academy of Social Science (UK)
2021-present, Fellow, Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity, Netherlands
2017-2019, Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Government, London School of Economics, UK
2015-2016, Remarque Visiting Fellow, New York University, USA
2013, Visiting Professor, Leiden Institute for Religious Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands
2012, 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
2009-2011, Honorary University Fellow, Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK
2007-2009, Fellow, Centre for Studies in Security and Democracy, University of Birmingham, UK
2007-2008, Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK
2006-present, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK
1999-2001, Associate Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK
Membership
2016-present, Associate Editor of Critical Muslim (the quarterly magazine of the Muslim Institute, published by Hurst in London and New Delhi).
2014-present, Member of Editorial Board, Bandung: Journal of the Global South (Brill, NL)
2006-present, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK)