Dr. Hussein is a Senior Lecturer in Race in SPAIS. Before joinning the University of Bristol she was a lecturer in sociology at Birmingham City University and London School of Economics. 

Dr. Hussein's research examines the intersections of gendered, racialised, classed identities of Muslim women in South Asia and Bangladesh and their diaspora in Britain. She is the author of Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh, which provide an understanding of the concept of new women in the Global South. She is also one of the editors of Decolonising Gender in South Asia- the first full-lenght compilation of cutting-edge research on debates around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. She also edited Rethinking New Womanhood: Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia which challanges prevailing understandings of womanhood, Islam, feminism and identity in South Asia.

Her recent work includes Asian Muslim women's struggle to gain value: The labour behind performative visibility as everyday politics in Britain, which explores how Asian Muslim women in Britain engage in forms of “performative visibility” in order to gain recognition, value, and legitimacy within social and professional spaces. While the paper The brown/desi girl scape: diasporic young Bangladeshi women on social media investigates how American-Bangladeshi women curate a transnational brown/ desi girl identity through their drive towards inclusive beauty, challenging patriarchy, racism and global injustices. 

Dr. Hussein has contributed to a variety of media outlets- BBC, China Television Network, Channel Eye, Daily Star, Bristol Live etc. on issues around politics and social injustices.