Tahir Abbas

Dr Tahir Abbas is a founding Director of Birmingham University’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was previously Senior Research Officer at the Department for Constitutional Affairs and at the Home Office in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the Lunar Society. Dr Abbas is author of British Islam: The Road to Radicalism (Cambridge, 2009), The Education of British South Asians: Ethnicity, Capital and Class Structure (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004) and editor of Muslim Britain: Communities under Pressure (Zed, 2005) and (2007) Islamic Political Radicalism: a European Perspective (Edinburgh, 2007), and co-editor of Immigration and Race Relations: Sociology and John Rex (I B Tauris, 2007, with Frank Reeves). He has published over fifty journal articles and book chapters, and a similar number of book reviews and opinion-editorials. He has held numerous research grants and has worked with government departments and civil society organisations throughout Asia, Europe and North America.