Imran Awan (Birmingham City University) Islamophobia is often viewed within the space of street-level violence perpetrated against Muslim communities. However, in [...]
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“We Fear for our Lives”: Offline and Online Experiences of Anti-Muslim Hostility
Irene Zempi (Nottingham Trent University) and Imran Awan (Birmingham City University) Following the terrorist attacks in Paris and Tunisia in 2015, [...]
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Religious Exoticism
Véronique Altglas (Queen’s University Belfast) Why is it that Europeans and North Americans are so fascinated by the ‘religion of others’, [...]
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Care leavers – hitting the target and missing the point
Jameel Hadi (University of Salford) Increasing numbers of children are being taken into care at the same time as outcomes for those [...]
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The Impact of Affluence on Adolescence
Megan Dottermusch (North Western University) Family life is very different from how it was 65 years ago. Modern times have produced [...]
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FOCUS: SOCIETY – A PARTIAL ECLIPSE
Jeremy Seabrook In the mid-to-late twentieth century, with the passing of the era of industrial manufacture in Britain, the ‘social change’ [...]
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Viewpoint: A malicious and undemocratic assault on the BBC
Steven Barnett (University of Westminster) The first outright election of a Conservative government for nearly 25 years could have dire consequences [...]
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On the Frontline: Lecturers are not counter-terrorism police officers
Imran Awan (Birmingham City University) Imagine this, you are teaching a class of students and someone raises a controversial question about [...]
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Policy Briefing: The Poverty of Resilience in the Arts
Jack Newsinger (University of Leicester) Definition: resilience Noun 1. the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., [...]
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The Battle for the BBC and Struggle for Public Space
Graham Murdock (Loughborough University) The current struggle over the future of the BBC is part of a wider battle for the [...]
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