Members
Patron:Lord Bhikhu Parekh
| Dr. Roger Ballard, Consultant Anthropologist and Director of CASAS, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Hindu and Sikh Jullunduris, Azad Kashmiris |
| Issues: | The formation of ethnic colonies in UK; the dynamics of transnational and transjurisdictional kinship networks; popular religious ideas and ideologies |
| Applications: | Ethnic plurality and the law; ethnosensitive service delivery.
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| Dr. Bridget Anderson, University of Oxford, whose specialist interests include | |
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| Communities: | all migrants working in domestic work in private households including South and South East Asians and Africans |
| Issues: | immigration law, undocumented migration, employment, gender, organising |
| Applications: |
caring and reproductive labour |
| Dr. Marzia Barzani, University of Roehampton, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Rajastan, Diaporic islam in Pakistan and the UK |
| Issues: | Political elites and the rituals of Kingship; the rituals of preganancy |
| Applications: |
Ethnicity and service delivery.
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| Katherine Charlsley, University of Bristol, whose specialist interests include: | |
| Communities: | British South Asians, Pakistanis (mainly Punjabi), other marriage migrants |
| Issues: | Marriage and migration, gender and kinship |
| Applications: |
Issues of Social policy, most particularly with respect marriage and migration |
| Dr. Shirley Firth, Independent Scholar | |
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| Communities: | South Asian (Indian Subcontinent) religious communities |
| Issues: | Death and bereavement, health issues, palliative care, including religious and spiritual care of the dying |
| Applications: |
Health and social work; education
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| Dr. Katy Gardner, University of Sussex, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Sylhetis |
| Issues: | The dynamics of family and kinship |
| Applications: |
Care for the elderly; new reproductive technologies
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| Professor Ron Geaves, Liverpool Hope University, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | South Asian Muslims, Sufi tariqas, Hindus and Sikhs |
| Issues: | The transmigration of religious communities from the subcontinent to Britain; identity formation amongst South Asian communities; religion and ethnicity; representation of South Asian faith communities |
| Applications: |
Religious education, accurate representation of South Asian faith communities
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| Dr. Seán Mcloughlin, University of Leeds, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Pakistanis and 'Azad' Kashmiris |
| Issues: | Religion and ethnicity; multiculturalism and identity politics; Islamic movements, organisations and mosques, education and Muslim schools, gender and generation |
| Applications: |
Education; political representation; religious discrimination and Islamophobia
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| Professor Werner Menski, School of Oriental and African Studies, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi |
| Issues: | Law, legal pluralism, ethnicity, marriage, divorce, dowry, maintenance, adoption, child law, immigration |
| Applications: |
Law, immigration control, public policy
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| Tahirah Parveeen, Cognitive Psychotherapist Greater Manchester West Mental Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust | |
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| Communities: | Across the board, but with particular concern for members of UK-based South Asian communities |
| Issues: | Development of ethnosensitive skills in the delivery of professional practice |
| Applications: | Psychotherapeutic treatment of emotional disorders |
| Professor Eleanor Nesbitt, Warwick University, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Sikhs, including Bhatra Sikhs; Punjabi and Gujarati Hindus; South Asian Christians |
| Issues: | Religious nurture of children; identity formation of young people; religious education and representation of South Asian faith traditions and communities |
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Applications:
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Religious education, pastoral care in schools, how faiths/cultures are represented in professional training. |
| Dr Mary Searle-Chatterjee,Manchester Metropolitan University/University of Manchester, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Indian, Pakistani |
| Issues: | Religious nationalism, gender issues, caste |
| Applications: |
Ethnicity and the law, education
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| Dr Prakash Shah,Queen Mary, University of London, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | South Asians, Africans, Caribbeans |
| Issues: | Immigration, asylum, nationality, mental health, education, crime and criminalisation, racial harassment and violence, and families |
| Applications: |
Law
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| Dr. Alison Shaw, University of Oxford, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Pakistanis |
| Issues: | Family, kinship and marriage; health and illness, especially reproductive health |
| Applications: |
Antenatal services and genetic counselling
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| Dr. Jacqueline Suthren Hirst, University of Manchester, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Indian |
| Issues: | Education and gender |
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Applications:
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Religious education and issues of representation; implications for initial teacher training and in-service training |
| Dr. Robin Wyatt, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | South Asians in South Asia and in the UK |
| Issues: | Marital breakdown; domestic violence and wives' unnatural deaths; 'cultural crimes' such as dowry-related abuse, forced marriage and honour killings. |
Applications:
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Fieldwork and applied research solutions to guide policy formation |
| Dr. John Zavos, University of Manchester, whose specialist interests include: | |
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| Communities: | Indian, Pakistani |
| Issues: | Politics and religion; use of history in the context of religious nationalism |
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Applications:
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Political analysis; education |