- Tariq Modood
Tariq Modood (born 1952) is professor of
sociology ,politics andpublic policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study ofEthnicity andCitizenship at theUniversity of Bristol . He is also a founding editor of the new international journal, "Ethnicities". Modood is a leading authority in the field of ethnicity and was the principal researcher of the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities in Britain published as "Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Diversity and Disadvantage" (PSI, 1997).He has recently completed an ESRC project on Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy in Britain and a Nuffield Foundation sponsored project on South Asian Women and Employment. He is currently working on several comparative cross-national projects on ethnicity and public policy with colleagues in the US and Canada.
Modood was awarded an MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in the 2001 New Year Honours list.
Publications
*"Not Easy Being British" (Trentham, 1992)
*"Changing Ethnic Identities" with S. Beishon and S. Virdee (PSI, 1994)
*"Asian Self-Employment" with H. Metcalf and S. Virdee
*"Ethnicity and Employment in Higher Education" with S. Fenton and J. Carter (PSI, 1999).
*"Church, State and Religious Minorities", editor (PSI, 1997)
*"Debating Cultural Hybridity" editor with P. Webner (1997)
*"The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe", editor with P. Webner (Zed Brooks, 1997)
*"Race and Higher Education" with T. Acland (PSI, 1998).
*"Multicultural Politics" (UMP, 2005)External links
* [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/staff/tariqmodood.html University of Bristol : Professor Tariq Modood]
* [http://www.youngfoundation.org.uk/index.php?p=112 The Young Foundation - Tariq Modood]
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/islam/story/0,,576697,00.html Tariq Modood:Muslims In The West] "The Observer"
* [http://www.themuslimweekly.com/fullstoryview.aspx?NewsID=2D54BD66FF655C399A4B4815&MENUID=FEATURE&DESCRIPTION=Feature Multicultural Politics: Race, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain] "The Muslim Weekly"
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