
Professor Tariq Modood
M.B.E., M.A.(Dunelm.), Ph.D.(Wales), PGCE (FE)
Current positions
Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Research interests
Over the last 35 years I have worked on: Theory and politics of racism, racial equality, multiculturalism and secularism, with especial reference to British Asian Muslims; ethnic identities, national identities and the 'second generation'; ethnic disadvantage and progress in employment and education; comparisons within and between Western Europe and North America; the politics of being Muslim in the West. The topics I am currently most focused on are the political theory and sociology of multiculturalism, interculturalism and secularism; and on Islamophobia.
I was the Bristol Director of the Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship, with UCL, which consisted of 8 projects running between 2003-09. With Anna Triandafyllidou I led EMILIE: A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship (with 8 EU partners), an EU 6th Framework project (2006-09) and we followed this up with a 15 countries project, Accept Pluralism: Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion (2010-2013). I worked on a project with Dr Therese O’Toole, Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance, funded by the AHRC (2010-13). During 2010-11 I had a Fellowship from the AHRC to work on a book on Secularism and the Accommodation of Muslims in Western Europe, which I developed further on during my Robert Schuman Fellowship at the European University Institute, 2013-2015.
I have held over 40 grants and consultancies, have over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 350 articles and chapters. I was awarded a MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001, made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) in 2004 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017. In 2022 I was ranked in the top 20 UK cited scholars in Politics, Law, Sociology and Social Policy combined. I served on the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the National Equality Panel, and the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life. My latest books include Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism (2019), Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (2nd ed; 2013); and as Special Issues co-editor, with T. Sealy, Beyond Euro-Americancentric Forms of Racism and Anti-racism (Political Quarterly, 2022) and Global comparative analysis of the governance of religious diversity (Religion, State and Society, 2022). I have a You Tube Channel and my website is tariqmodood.com
As I am on flexi-retirement, I am only accepting new Phd students and invitations to publish or join projects on my recent and current work in the following three areas, with a focus on W. Europe, N. America, MENA and Asia:
- Political theory and political sociology of multiculturalism, interculturalism and national identity, including discourses, laws and policies and their reform
- Political theory and political sociology of secularism and the governance of religious diversity, including discourses, laws and policies and their reform
- Theory and sociology of cultural racism, especially Islamophobia, and ethnic capital and social mobility; especially in relation to education and employment.
For further details and updates, see: www.tariqmodood.com and http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ethnicity/
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Negotiating Diversity in Expanded European Public Spaces PLURISPACE
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
31/05/2019 to 25/11/2022
Negotiating diversity in expanded European public spaces
Principal Investigator
Description
Funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), PLURISPACE investigates how four approaches to the governance of cultural diversity (multiculturalism, interculturalism, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism) shape policy and civil society…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/05/2019 to 30/11/2022
Radicalisation, Secularism and the Governance of Religion: Bringing together European and Asian Perspectives
Principal Investigator
Description
As Europe is growing unchurched, trends of religious radicalisation seem to increase both within the continent and across the world. Claims are made that migrant integration has overall failed because…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/10/2018 to 31/03/2022
Qatar National Research Fund - N Khattab
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
02/01/2017 to 02/01/2021
Marie Curie Fellowship: Nabil Khattab
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/09/2013 to 01/09/2015
Thesis supervisions
Education, cultural difference and social mobility in multiethnic northwest China
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"Mixed race projects" : perceptions, constructions and implications of mixed race in the UK and USA
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Building a community of equals
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Identity, Difference, Religion
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Muslim Marriage and Divorce Practices in Britain
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How a society tells a story about itself
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Seeking voices
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Living as One United Peoples
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De-ethnicisation of Politics in Malaysia
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Socio-cultural Construction of Recognition: The Discursive Representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Christian News Media
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Publications
Recent publications
01/06/2024Is Multicultural Nationalism Possible? If it is, what benefits follow?
Difference and diversity
The Sociological Review
Governing diversity in the multilevel European public space.
Ethnicities
The Rise of Multicultural Nationalism
Journal of Democracy
The New Governance of Religious Diversity
The New Governance of Religious Diversity