Recent keynote lectures and invited talks
The Value of a Critical Ethnography of the Secular Today: Muslim Minorities and Secular Power, plenary lecture given at the Institute for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, 14 December 2020
‘City-zenship’: What does a ‘Brummie’ Education Look Like? Talk at a virtual event I organised and led for the Festival of Social Sciences, 10 November 2020
Islamophobia and Racism: The Institutional ‘work’ of Education, Secularism and Policy, Keynote Lecture given at the “Inclusivity in Education” conference at Middlesex University, London, 3 July 2019
Racialized Humanity. Invited talk at the “Humanity under Duress” conference, University of Sheffield, 19-21 June 2019
Diasporic Education: Challenges and Possibilities. Plenary lecture at “Diaspora and Internationalization in Higher Education” organised by BAICE at the UCL Institute of Education, 10 May 2019
Religion, Prevent and Free Speech. Invited talk at “The Far Right and the Politics of Free Speech” SOAS, University of London, 1 March 2019
Secularism, Policy and Education in an Age of Extremisms, invited talk by the Department of Education, Practice and Society, UCL Institute of Education, 29 November 2018
Diasporic Living and the Secular – Lessons for Identity, Citizenship and Education, Keynote Lecture delivered at the Non-religion and Secularity Research Network conference, King’s College, London,6 July 2018
Indicators of peer esteem
- 2020: Nominated to become Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
- 2019-2020: Grant application reviewer for the British Academy (the “Education and Learning in Crises” Programme)
- 2019: Grant application reviewer for Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA)
- Since 2018: Member of the Editorial Board: Educational Review (impact factor 2.041)
- Since 2017: Member of the Editorial Board:International Studies in Sociology of Education
- Member of the West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner’s Academic Advisory Board