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Key researchers

Dr Jim Reid
Director of HudCRES
Reader in Education, Department of Education

Dr Kat Simpson
Acting Deputy Director
Senior Lecturer, Department of Education

Professor Paul Thomas
Professor of Youth and Policy
Department of Education

Dr Dimi Kaneva
Senior Lecturer
Department of Education

Dr Kate Lavender
Director of Graduate Education
Department of Education

Dr Jo Bishop
Senior Lecturer
Department of Education
Publication spotlight
Dr Shamim Miah is the author of four books: Ibn Khaldun: Education, History and Society; Race, Space and Multiculturalism in Northern England (co author-2020); Muslims and the Question of Security: Trojan Horse, Prevent and Racial Politics (2017) and Muslims Schooling and the Question of Self-Segregation which received the ‘highly commended’ book award by the Society for Educational Studies’ (2016).
Shamim is the co-editor for Muslim's in Britain series (Oxford University Press). He is also a senior fellow at the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies and an associate editor for the journal Critical Muslim (Hurst).
