Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
(Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra)
CES/UC
Portugal / Coordinator
CES/UC is an Associate Laboratory of the Portuguese Ministry of Science, granted the status of Centre of Excellence following international evaluation. Its activities are structured around three main axes: inter-and transdisciplinary research; internationalisation; articulation between research and outreach activities. CES/UC has centred an important part of its activity on promoting an understanding of cultural diversity and on developing forms of articulation with social movements that oppose different forms of discrimination and enhance the value of human rights. Moreover, several Doctoral Programmes offered (Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship; Governance, Knowledge and Innovation and Democracy in the 21st Century) have systematically put forward the need for reflecting on how complex cultural diversity is shaping contemporary Europe and for forging intercultural dialogues. CES/UC has been engaged with citizen initiatives and organisations, providing technical and organisational support within its areas of expertise. Amid the themes privileged in its Advanced Training Workshops, approached on a comparative fashion, are: immigration and integrations policies; (anti-racism, multilinguism and education; ethnicity, culture, identities; the politics of postcolonial societies.
• SANTOS, Boaventura de Sousa PhD (team leader) is Director of CES/UC; Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University. He is director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely, in many languages, on the issues of globalization, human rights, democracy, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum. Key works, in English, include: (Ed.) Voices of the World. London: Verso 2010; (Ed.) Another Knowledge is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies. London: Verso 2007; (Ed.) Cognitive Justice in a Global World: Prudent Knowledges for a Decent Life. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007; The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond. London: Zed Books, 2006; (Ed.) Another Production is Possible: Beyond the Capitalist Canon. London: Verso, 2006; (co-editor with Cesar Rodríguez Garavito) Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005; (Ed.) Democratizing Democracy. Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon. London: Verso, 2005; Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization and Emancipation. London: Butterworths, 2002.
• RODRÍGUEZ MAESO, Silvia (Executive coordinator) PhD in Political Sociology (University of the Basque Country, Spain). Silvia is a researcher at CES/UC, where she currently co-coordinates the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe). Silvia lectures in the PhD Programme Democracy in the 21st Century (CES/UC - FEUC); she is a member of the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed journals Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociais (www.ces.uc.pt/rccs) and e-cadernos ces (www.ces.uc.pt/e-cadernos). Her major research interests are over issues of racism and anti-racism, critical theory, the challenge of Eurocentrism and the production of History, the politics of testimony and truth commissions in Latin American contexts. Her publications include: ‘O Eurocentrismo nos Manuais Escolares de História Portugueses’ (Estudos de Sociologia, UNESP-Brasil, 2010, with Marta Araújo); (2010) Barrios multiculturales. Relaciones interétnicas en los barrios de San Francisco (Bilbao) y Embajadores/Lavapiés (Madrid) (Madrid: Trotta, 2010, with Alfonso Pérez-Agote et al.); ‘Política del testimonio y reconocimiento en las comisiones de la verdad guatemalteca y peruana’ (Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2010).
• ARAÚJO, Marta PhD in Sociology of Education (University of London, UK). Marta is a researcher at CES/UC, where she currently coordinates a study on the construction of Eurocentrism, focusing on Portuguese history textbooks. She is also the coordinator of the peer-reviewed, online journal e-cadernos ces (www.ces.uc.pt/e-cadernos). Marta lectures in the PhD Programme Democracy in the 21st Century (CES/UC - FEUC) and has been involved in outreach activities, both with schools and with civil society organisations. Her research interests centre on the (re)production and challenging of racism and Eurocentrism, with a particular interest in education. Her publications include: 'O Eurocentrismo nos Manuais Escolares de História Portugueses' (Estudos de Sociologia, UNESP-Brazil, 2010, with Silvia Maeso); ‘'Modernising the comprehensive principle’: selection, setting and the institutionalisation of failure’ (British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007); ‘O silêncio do racismo em Portugal: o caso do abuso verbal racista na escola’ (in Nilma Gomes, Educação e relações raciais. BH: Autêntica Ed., Brazil, 2007).
• MENESES, Maria Paula PhD in Anthropology (Rutgers University, USA). Maria Paula is a researcher at CES/UC where she co-coordinates the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe). Her current research interests deal with identity issues, colonial and postcolonial realities from an African perspective, as well as with legal plurality and epistemology. Her publications include: Epistemologias do Sul (Coimbra: Almedina, 2009, with Boaventura de Sousa Santos); ‘Introduction: opening up the canon of knowledge and recognition’ (in Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Another knowledge is possible. London: Verso, 2007, with B.S. Santos & J.A. Nunes), Law and Justice in a Multicultural Society: the case of Mozambique (with Santos, B. S. & Trindade, J. C., Eds., Dakar: CODESRIA, 2006).
• SUÁREZ-KRABBE, Julia PhD in Intercultural Studies (Roskilde University, Denmark). Julia is a postdoctoral fellow at CES/UC, and lectures at the Cultural Encounters programme at Roskilde University. She coordinates a large European network (Decoloniality Europe) whose concern is related to the problems of coloniality and racism in Europe (www.decoloniality.org), and is a member of the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed journal Kult (www.postkolonial.dk). Her research has emphasised on questions of race and racism in relation to human rights, citizenship, development, anti-racist social movements, knowledges and social change. Key publications include: ‘En la realidad. Hacia metodologías de investigación descoloniales’ (Revista Tabula Rasa, 2011), ‘Identity and the preservation of being,’ (Journal of Social Identities, forthcoming), and ‘The other side of the story. Human rights, race and social struggle from a historical transatlantic perspective’, (forthcoming in Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic approaches to human rights).
• GUIOT, Olivier MA in Migration, Inter-ethnicity and Trans-nationalism (FCSH, New University of Lisbon). Junior researcher at CES/UC integrated to the research group of Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe). His research interest issues are migrations and identities and specifically in the context of expressive (sub-)cultures in young life.
The Danish National Centre for Social Research
(Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Velfærd)
SFI
Denmark
The Danish National Centre for Social Research conducts research and carries out commissioned projects in the area of welfare state policies. SFI´s department for immigration and social integration focuses on immigrants and their integration in Danish society, and is involved in international research networks for comparative studies. The main research themes related to immigration and integration are: policies on immigration and integration, education and occupation, gender, family, immigrant institutions, religion, and acculturation.
• JENSEN, Tina Gudrun PhD (team leader) in Anthropology is a researcher at The Danish National Centre for Social Research. Her areas of research are social integration, ethnic minorities, inter-ethnic relations, multiculturalism and religion. She has carried out research in Brazil and Denmark, focusing on identity, ethnicity and religion. In her research among Muslims in Denmark, she explores the construction of Danish-Muslim identities, relations between Muslims and Danes, and value changes. She is part of an international research project organised by the Ethnobarometer at the Italian Social Research Council on Integration, Cultural rights and Legal Pluralism in Europe. Principles of Multiculturalism.
• SCHMIDT, Garbi PhD in Islamic Studies, is a senior researcher at the Danish National Centre for Social Research in Copenhagen. She is a program director of the ethnic minorities’ research program. Besides, she is a member of the steering committee of the Academy of Migration studies in Denmark and co-founder and president of the Danish Forum for Islamic Studies. She has carried out research among immigrant Muslim communities in the United States, Sweden and Denmark. Besides continuing her work on Muslim immigrants in Western contexts, her research projects include perspectives on transnational marriages and family practices among Pakistani and Turkish immigrants living in Denmark.
• VITUS, Kathrine PhD in Sociology, is a researcher at The Danish National Centre for Social Research. Her research interests cover sociological studies of childhood and youth, identity and ethnicity, migration and integration, marginalised and delinquent youth. Her current research focuses on childhood in Danish asylum centres, and the structural, everyday life conditions and experiences of children created by international and national immigration and asylum politics. She engages in comparative studies with the Institute for Social Research, Oslo. Her previous research explores the meeting between ethnic minority children and the Danish social system as it unfolds in a crime preventive leisure institution, and analyses how constructions of ethic identity, inter-ethnic problems and ‘integration-problems’ are produced and reproduced on a structural, institutional and interactional level.
• WEIBEL, Kristina MA in Sociology, is a research assistant at the Danish National Centre for Social Research in Copenhagen. Her research interests cover sociological studies of social integration, multiculturalism, and gender equality, and her previous research focuses on the empowerment of indigenous women in Peru, discrimination of ethnic minorities in Denmark, ethnic and gender equality and ‘integration-problems’.
• TØRSLEV, Mette Kirstine MA in Anthropology, is an assistant researcher at the Danish National Centre for Social Research in Copenhagen. Her interests cover anthropological studies of ethnic minorities and social identity, migration and integration. Her previous research explores women's access to and incentives to nondomestic work in Syria, ethnic minority youth and women in Denmark, ethnicity and nationalism.
European University Viadrina
(Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt)
EUV
Germany
http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de/en/index.html
The research will be carried out at the Department of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology. The Viadrina University offers the only MA program “Intercultural communication” in Germany and the Department of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology coordinates the study program “Migration” within this program. The Department continues to host an important number of post-doctoral and graduate students conducting research on questions of migration and diversity in Germany and other European countries. Currently conducted projects concern: transnational families in Europe; immigration and the concept of hospitality; the construction of security risks in the Schengen space; public religion and secular orders in Germany and France and transnational Islamic movements. The Department of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology is headed currently by Prof. Werner Schiffauer. Professor Schiffauer has made widely regarded contributions to the German debate on multiculturalism and Islam and who has published extensively on Muslims in Turkey and in the German diaspora. The Department has been actively involved in a variety of European projects examining education and citizenship in England, France and Germany, whose results are reflected in the following publication: Civil enculturation. Nation-state, School and Ethnic Difference in four European Countries. (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006). The Department has hosted a research team of the FP6-Project EMILIE (“A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship: Legal, political and educational challenges”), and the EUMAP project Muslims in EU Cities (Germany). The Department is also a co-founder of the international network “Configurations of Muslim Traditions in European Secular Public Spheres” (2008-2011), funded by the Dutch Science Organisation NWO.
• PETER, Frank PhD (team leader) is Associate Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bern and Research Fellow at the European University Viadrina. For further information see http://www.frankpeter.net.
• SCHIFFAUER, Werner PhD is the Head of the Department of “Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology” at the Viadrina University. He is a member of the Council on Immigration (RfM) and of the Ethnos International Advisory Board, and has written and edited books on rural and urban Turkey, on immigration, on Turkish migrants in Germany and Islam, and on urban anthropology.
• VERMEREN, Pauline MA is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University Paris 7 and works on the "question noire" in France. She has a master's degree in philosophy from Paris 1-Sorbonne as well as a master's degree in sociology from Paris 7, and worked on migration at the Cimade, an association that defends the rights of immigrants. Since the earthquake in Haïti, she has been working with the French government as part of the Franco-Haitian cooperation for the reconstruction of education and universities.
• TOSUNER, Hakan MA has studied political science, economics and law at the University of Frankfurt (Germany) and the University of Wisconsin (USA). His research interests are religious and ethnic minorities in Europe, EU-Turkey relations as well as relations between the EU and the Middle East. Currently, he is working on his dissertation project which is dealing with the phenomenon of Islamophobia in Germany.
• PAGANO, Simona MA is a PhD candidate at European University Viadrina. She has studied at University Roma III and Free University Berlin and graduated in 2010 from Viadrina University. Her MA thesis (forthcoming publication as “Also der Körper is da, die Seele nich. Zur Funktion antisemitischer Äußerungen in Männlichkeitskonstruktionen vier Berliner Jugendlicher mit türkischem und arabischem Migrationshintergrund“ Münster: LIT Verlag, 2011) examines “anti-semitism” in the formation of gendered subjectivities among German-Turkish and German-Arab youth in Berlin. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Gender Studies, Race/ Ethnicity Studies and Anthropology. Currently she is working on „anti-gypsy“ racism in contemporary Italy.
Collective Identity Researh Centre, University of the Basque Country
(Centro de Estudios sobre la Identidad Colectiva, Universidad del País Vasco)
CEIC/UPV
Spain
http://www.identidadcolectiva.es
CEIC/UPV is a research group that has been granted the status of ‘Consolidated and High-Performance Research Group in Social Sciences’ from 1996 up to now. The centre’s academic life is formed by the intersection of two different areas: (i) the crisis, or accelerated change, that is occurring in our societies in three of the social institutions which articulate social order, integration and the meaning of life and social identity: the Nation-State and conventional politics, institutionalised religion and the centrality of work. (ii) the social zones of emerging modalities that traverse the contemporary processes of identity construction. The Research Programme is structured around three axes of theoretical and empirical research: (a) knowledge of the scope and dimension of the emerging forms of sociality; (b) non-traditional forms of culture and political action; and, (c) the scenarios of the creation and management of sociality. Current centre’s research activities have been devoted to emerging situations of intercultural interaction in complex societies funded by public institutions, for example: “Gobernar la migración: la gestión pública en ámbitos transnacionales. El caso del IME” (funded by the Mexican CONAYT: 2006-2008) coordintated by Dr. Ignacio Irazuzta; “Glocalidad e inmigración transnacional (Madrid y Bilbao)” (funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología: 2004-2006) coordinated by Dr. Benjamín Tejerina; “El trabajo de cuidado de personas mayores dependientes por parte de inmigrantes en España”, (funded by IMSERSO: 2003-2004), this project allowed the CEIC/UPV to analyse immigrants’ social networks used in order have access to employment as care workers for elderly people.
• GATTI, Gabriel PhD (team leader) Lecturer in Sociological Theory at the University of the Basque Country (UPV). Coordinator of the CEIC/UPV and co-responsable of the Comité de Recherche n. 1 (Identité, espace et politique) of AISLF (Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française). He has been visiting scholar at the EHESS, Paris; the University of Nevada, Reno; visiting researcher at the IDES, Buenos Aires, and visiting professor at UDELAR (Montevideo) and the UBA (Buenos Aires). His current research interests are: Sociological theory, the sociology of identity, the sociology of human rights. Key works include: La comunidad como pretexto (with I. Irazuzta and P. de Marinis, 2010), El detenido desaparecido (2008), Identidades débiles (2007); Les nouveaux repères de l’identité collective en Europe (with A. Pérez Agote and W. Dressler, 1999).
• TEJERINA, Benajamín PhD Professor of Sociology; Lecturer in Social Structure, Social Movements and Sociology of Knowledge at Universidad del País Vasco (UPV) and director of the CEIC/UPV since 2002. Visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, University of California (San Diego) and the European University Institute (Florence). His current research relates to: the knowledge society and identity construction; the global resistance movement; processes of immigration and the transformation of urban space. Key works include Migraciones transnacionales: Las relaciones interétnicas en el espacio metropolitano (with Pérez-Agote, A. et al., 2009 forthcoming); “Protest cycle, political violence and social movements in the Basque country” (2001); Nacionalismo y lengua. Los procesos de cambio lingüístico en el País Vasco (1992).
• IRAZUSTA, Ignacio PhD in Sociology; Lecturer at the Department of International Relations (Tecnológico de Monterrey, México), member of the CEIC/UPV since 1996 and fellow researcher at the Department of Sociology 2 (UPV). His current research interests are collective identities, migration and nationalism. Key works include Argentina: una construccion ritual. Identidad, nacionalismo y clasificacion simbolica en las sociedades contemporaneas (2001); “Más allá de la migración: el movimiento teórico hacia las diásporas” (2005) and “Identidades de ida y vuelta: hacia una sociología política del movimiento” (2008).
• SANTAMARÍA, Elsa PhD in Sociology (European Mention); Lecturer at Psychology and Educational Sciences Department, Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She is an active researcher at CEIC/UPV since 1999. Her doctoral dissertation (2009 in the Basque Country University - UPV) examines the construction of identity and the emerging cultures of work. Her research interests are in the field of sociology of work, identities and sociology of youth. Key works incluye: “El lugar del locutorio en el espacio transnacional: aproximación etnográfica a los flujos de identidad” (with A. Gómez, 2008) and Emancipación y precariedad laboral en los jóvenes vascos: entre la anomía funcional y el cambio cultural. Observatorio de la Juventud del Gobierno Vasco (with A. Pérez-Agote, 2008).
• CAVIA, Beatriz MA Researcher at CEIC/UPV since 1999 and PhD candidate in sociology at the Department of Sociological Theory from Complutense University of Madrid. She has been visiting researcher at the University of California (Santa Cruz), the GERS-CNRS (Paris) and the University of Chile. His current research interests are gender and sexuality studies, collective identity and sociological theory.
• MURIEL, Daniel MA Graduates in Sociology from the University of the Basque Country and Master of Science in Sociology from Complutense University of Madrid, member of CEIC/UPV since 2003. He is working on his PhD thesis that is related to the way in which identities are built in new social contexts. The core of his research lies in how the expert fabric that traverses contemporary societies helps to produce, modify and manage collective identities through the construction of their cultural heritage. His research is developed in the Basque region, within the Spanish State area. In this way, he considers heritage as a part of a complex dispositif for the production and management of identities within a context characterized by the predominance of scientific knowledge, the proliferation of expert networks and a postmodern governmentality (based on neo-liberal political rationalities). Therefore, his main research interests are concerned with fields related to identity, social construction of science, sociological theory, governmentality and heritage studies.
• MARTINEZ, María, MA Graduated in Sociology by the University of the Basque Country in 2003 and MA by the EHSS, Paris in 2005. She is a PhD candidate jointly at the CADIS (Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologique – EHESS) and the Department of Sociology 2 (University of the Basque Country). Her current research interests are gender studies, collective identity, sociological theory, feminist identities and feminist social movements.
• GÓMEZ, David MA in Sociology by the University of the Basque Country and researcher at CEIC/UPV since 2009. He holds a PhD grant funded by the Basque Government’s Department of Education, Universities and Research. He is a research fellow in the project: "The precariousness of life. Precarisation processes of social life and identity in Spanish contemporary society” (MEC, 2009-12).
Research Group for the Study of Sociocultural Identities in Andalusia, University of Seville
(Grupo para el Estudio de las Identidades Socioculturales en Andalucía, Universidad de Sevilla)
GEISA/US
Spain
GEISA/US is a research group that has been granted the status of ‘Consolidated and High-Performance Research Group in Social Sciences’ by the Plan Andaluz de Investigación de la Junta de Andalucía (SEJ149-PAI) (http://www.sisius.us.es). All the team researchers have a large research experience on issues related to immigration, citizenship policies and grassroots organisations. Three of the team researchers have carried out several research projects and published jointly on immigration processes and local policies in El Ejido and Sevilla, as well as on labour integration of immigrants in intensive farming in the Andalusia region. The following projects have resulted in a varied number of publications, training programmes and meetings with NGOs and grassroots associations: “Los inmigrantes marroquíes en el Poniente almeriense” (funded by Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía: 1994-1997; “Mujeres marroquíes y sus familias en Sevilla” (funded by Consejería de Cultura, Junta de Andalucía: 2000; “El papel de la mujeres en el desarrollo de sus localidades de origen: el caso de las marroquíes y las ecuatorianas” (I+D+i Project funded by Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales: 2004-2007); “Familias marroquíes y ecuatorianas en Sevilla: el papel de las mujeres en la transformación de las culturas de origen” (funded by Centro de Estudios Andaluces: 2006); “Estudio sobre las redes sociales transnacionales de Dukkala y la Región Oriental de Marruecos en Murcia: diagnóstico para el programa de codesarrollo TAWASOL” (funded by Consejería de Asuntos Sociales de la Comunidad Regional de Murcia); “Managing International Urban Migration – Turkey, Italy, Spain (Mium-Tie: Migration Research Program at Koç University – Università Iuav di Venezia – Universidad de Cádiz, funded by the UE: 2008-2009). Several reports have been completed for state-endorsed institutions such as: “Informe sobre la situación de los inmigrantes en Almería” (Oficina del Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz: 1999); “Informe 2000 sobre la Inmigración en Almería” (Consejería de Asuntos Sociales); “Las mujeres inmigrantes en el servicio doméstico en Sevilla” (Consejería de Asuntos Sociales: 2003); “Informe 2005 sobre la situación socioeconómica de los inmigrantes en la ciudad de Sevilla” (Ayuntamiento de Sevilla).
• CASTAÑO, Ángeles PhD (team leader) lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology Team Leader of the Andalucian TOLERACE Team. Phd. In Social and Cultural Anthropology. Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad de Sevilla. Member of the research group GEISA/US. Her research interests are: Migrations and inter-ethnic Relations, Development Cooperation and Education and Social Intervention in Multicultural Environments.
• RUIZ, José María Manjavacas BA in Cultural and Social Anthropology. MA in Urban Management. Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidad de Cordoba (Area of Social Anthropology). Member of the research group GEISA/US. His research interests are: Migrations and Inter-ethnic Relations, Socio-Political Participation, Urban Planning and Management.
• MORENO NAVARRO Isidoro, Phd. In Social and Cultural Anthropology Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at Universidad de Sevilla. Director of the research group GEISA/US. His research interests are: Glocalization, Migrations and Inter-ethnic Relations, Associative Approaches, Socio-Political Movements, Identitarian Reproduction Rituals.
• LERA, María José, Phd. In Psychology Professor at the Department of Psychology of Education and Developmental Psychology at the Universidad de Sevilla. Director of the research group Psychological Foundations in Educational Interventions. Her research interests are: Interculturality and Education, Intervention in Environments of Crisis (Palestine), Quality on Education, School Violence and Disputes Resolution.
• RODRÍGUEZ , Miguel Rodríguez, BA in Political Sciences and Sociology (UNED); Technician at the Universidad de Cádiz (General Directorate of Social Action and Solidarity). His research interests are: Migrations and Inter-ethnic Relations, Associative Approaches and Socio-Political Participation, Social Economics and Community Social Intervention.
• CABEZUDO, Fernando Martínez, BA in Law and BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Professor at the Department of Public Law at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide. His research interests are: Knowledge and Digital Freedom.
• LÓPEZ, Ana Anguita, BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Diploma in Primary Teacher.
• DOMÍNGEZ, José Luis Calvo, BA in Law Expert in UE by Escuela Diplomática (MAEC). MA in Cultural Managment. Professor at CEADE Institute (University of Wales Collaborative Centre). His research interests are: Cultural Development and Media Production.
• CASCO, Gema Estela Silva, BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Diploma in Primary Teacher.
• BOLAÑO, Iván Periáñez Diploma in Social Work.
Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds
CERS/ULeeds
United Kingdom
Research into ethnicity and racism is an interdisciplinary field which does not fall neatly into the orbit of one particular department or school. This centre comprises a network of over fifty active research individuals from across the University including Sociology and Social Policy, English, Law, Geography, Politics, Adult and Continuing Education, French, European Studies, Healthcare Studies, Dentistry, Primary Care, Theology and Jewish Studies. The Centre is primarily a vehicle for building interdisciplinary and regional collaboration in this field in order to develop research interests and ideas, generate joint research activities and projects and attract research funds and graduate students. It brings researchers with shared interests together, and enables and facilitates regular contact through seminars, postgraduate forums, workshops and bulletins. Dr S.Sayyid will be responsible for management and coordination of the project and report writing and seminar organisation. Dr Law will assist at all stages of the project and will be particularly involved in quality control on all outputs. The research fellow to be hired will assist mainly at initial stages of the project and will particularly be involved in the fieldwork and report writing activities.
• SAYYID, Salman PhD (team leader) the Director of CERS/ULeeds and Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. Key works include: A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism (Zed press, 2nd edition: 2003), A postcolonial people: South Asians in Britian (Hurst/ Columbia University Press 2006, ed. with Ali and Kalra), Racist Futures, (Ethnic and Racial Studies 2007, ed. with Law), Integration of Ethnic Minorities (URBACT, 2005). He is an international expert in this field and his book A fundamental fear. Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism (London: Zed press 2003) has been highly influential in contemporary debates.
• LAW, Ian PhD who was the founding Director of CERS/ULeeds and Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, has a long track record in managing research projects in the field of racism and ethnicity studies. Key works include Racism Ethnicity and Social Policy (Harvester 1996), Race in the British News (Palgrave 2002), Institutional Racism in Higher Education (Trentham Press 2004, ed. with Turney and Phillips), Racist Futures, (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2007, ed. with Sayyid), Racism, Postcolonialism, Europe, (Liverpool University Press 2008, ed. with Huggan) and Racism and Ethnicity, a global analysis (Pearson 2009). Some of his recent output include; The Racism Reduction Agenda (CERS 2007), Comparative Analysis of Racism and Discrimination in Housing in the EU (EUMC 2005 with Harrison and Phillips), Building the Anti-Racist HEI: a toolkit, http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/assets/files/research/cers/the-anti-racism-toolkit.pdf, (2002 with Turney and Phillips).
• SIAN, Katy PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds. She is an active member of CERS/ULeeds and her research interests include debates surrounding Racism and Ethnicity Studies, Inter-Ethnic Conflict, Inter-BrAsian Relations, Critical Race Theory, Critical Sikh Studies, Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism, Cultural Studies, South Asian Identity, Citizenship and Diaspora. Her doctoral research explores the persistence of Sikh and Muslim conflict to examine the way in which Sikhs represent themselves as being subject to attack from Muslims in the context of postcolonial settlement in Britain. Works include: ‘Don’t Freak I am a Sikh’ in S. Sayyid and A. Vakil eds. Thinking through Islamophobia, (London: Hurst 2010), ‘Forced’ Conversions in the British Sikh Diaspora’, South Asian Popular Culture (forthcoming 2011), Institutional Racism and ‘Post-Racial’ Politics in the UK (2010), A report by Equanomics UK in conjunction with the ROOTS Research Centre: London.