ABSTRACT

Fauzia Ahmad holds Honorary Research Fellow positions at Royal Holloway University in the Centre for Minority Studies and has taught at Brunel and Bristol Universities and University College London. Her research interests centre on inequalities and gendered ethnic and faith and identities with a particular focus on Muslim communities in Britain and British Muslim women’s identities, representations and experiences of higher education, employment and social welfare. Her current research explores British Muslims’ relationships and experiences of divorce and legal and counselling services. She is co-editor of Muslim Youth: Challenges, Opportunities and Expectations (Continuum Press, 2012).