Dr Khursheed Wadia
Associate Professor
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Profile
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. I am also co-coordinator (with Dr Meleisa Ono-George, History) of the 糖心TV Staff BAME Network.
Outside the University of 糖心TV, I am an Overseas Research Associate at the , Paris, an Associate Fellow of the , Paris and an external Research Associate at the , Aston University in Birmingham.
Research
My research lies at the intersection of gender, ethnicity and politics in Europe with a focus on Britain and France. More specifically it covers the field of political participation and policy. My work on political participation and policy has been extended to examine why and how young people engage with political and civic institutions and processes (see below).
I am co-author (with , Nottingham Trent University) of (Routledge, 2000), Gender and Policy in France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), (Manchester University Press, 2010) and of various short works.
I am also co-author (with , Maison des Sciences de l鈥橦omme, Paris) of (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) which won the Political Studies Association UK WJM Mackenzie prize for the best book in political science in 2018. This book has been translated into French as , and is published by the Presses de l'Universit茅 Laval, in Quebec, Canada.
I am co-editor (with Dr. Gabriella Lazaridis) of (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Current and recent projects
- Principal Investigator (in collaboration with Prof. Gill Allwood, Nottingham Trent University) on a British Academy funded project on Forced Marriage Policy in France: a Study of Inclusivity and Gender Transformation, September 2017 to November 2019.
- Principal Investigator on a project funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund and the ESRC鈥檚 Impact Acceleration Account, on , April 2018 to July 2019.
- 鈥楪ender and Minority Rights鈥� Cluster Lead on , a four-year study funded under the EU鈥檚 Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7) on how young people's social and political participation is shaped by the past and inter-generational relationships in Europe. The MYPLACE project was coordinated by Prof. Hilary Pilkington (University of Manchester) and included collaboration with 14 European HEIs, April 2011 to November 2015.
- Principal Investigator on the ESRC-funded seminar series titled Whose Security? Migration-(In)Security Dilemmas 10 Years after 9/11, April 2011 to March 2013.
- Co-Investigator on a 4-year study funded by the ESRC on Women from Muslim Communities and Politics in Britain and France, June 2007 to May 2011.
Recent selected publications and reports
- Charles, N., Wadia, K., Ferrer Fons, M. and Allaste, A-A. (2018) '"I'm a feminist, I'm not ashamed and I'm proud": Young people's activism and feminist identities in Estonia, Spain and the UK', Women's Studies International Forum, 67: 23-29, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2017.11.008.
- Charles, N. and Wadia, K. (2017) 'New British Feminisms, UK Feminista and Young People's Activism', Feminist Theory, first published August 23, https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700117723592.
- Joly, D. and Wadia, K. (2017) Muslim Women and Power: Political and Civic Engagement in West European Societies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Lazaridis, G. and Wadia, K. (eds) (2015) The Securitisation of Migration in the EU: Debates since 9/11, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wadia, K. (2015) Interpreting Activism: Gender and Minority Rights (deliverable 7.2), MYPLACE (FP7) Project.
- Wadia, K. (2015) 'Women from Muslim Communities in Britain: Political and Civic Activism in the 9/11 Era鈥�, in T. Peace (ed.) Muslims and Political Participation in Britain, London: Routledge.
- Charles, N. and Wadia, K. (2014) UK Feminista: Young Women's Feminist Activism (deliverable 7.1), MYPLACE (FP7) Project.
- Charles, N., Pilkington, H., Popov, A. and Wadia, K. (2013) Interpreting Participation: UK Report (deliverable 5.3), MYPLACE (FP7) Project.
- Ross, K., Evans, E., Harrison, L., Shears, M. and Wadia, K. (2013) 鈥淭he Gender of News and News of Gender: A Study of Sex, Politics, and Press Coverage of the 2010 British General Election鈥�, International Journal of Press/Politics, 18/1: 3-20.
Teaching 2019 – 2020
During the current academic year I will be teaching the following modules:
- SO923 Gender, Imperialism and International Development
- SO261 Gender and Violence
Current PhD supervision
Tana Forrest, Migration and Mixed Heritage Identities in a West Midlands City, co-supervised with Dr Hannah Jones (Sociology) and funded by an ESRC Collaborative Scholarship.
Rakinder Reehal, Asylum Seeking Women, Trauma, and the UK鈥檚 鈥楬ostile Environment鈥�, co-supervised with Prof. Virinder Kalra and funded by the ESRC.
Mahmoud Ibrahim, Political Communication and Islamophobia and the framing of Muslims in the British Media via the Reporting of Prevent: a Decolonial Perspective, co-supervised with Dr Ravi Thiara.
Farhana Abdul Fatah, Rhetoric of the Non-Veiled: Exploring Religious Identity Construction among Malaysian Muslim Women who do not Veil, co-supervised with Dr Stephanie Schnurr (Centre for Applied Linguistics) and funded by the Chancellors International Scholarship Fund.
I am interested in supervising research in the broad area of gender and 鈥榬ace鈥�/ethnicity studies and more specifically political and civic engagement, equalities, public policies and social transformation.