About

I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/wadia). I have written extensively on gender and political engagement, supported by research grants from the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy and European Commission. My publications include Refugee Women in Britain and France, 2010 (co-authored with Gill Allwood); The Securitisation of Migration in the EU: Debates since 9/11, 2015 (co-edited with Gabriella Lazaridis); and most recently, Muslim Women and Power: Political and Civic Engagement in West European Societies, 2017 (co-authored with Danièle Joly) which won the UK Political Studies Association’s 2018 Mackenzie prize for the best book in political science. More recently, I was Principal Investigator on a British Academy funded project on French forced marriage policy and gender equality (2017-2019). I also created and led a 14-month programme (2018-2019), ‘Doing Politics, Changing Society' (funded by the UK Higher Education Innovation Fund and ESRC) aimed at providing citizenship and activist skills to young women from minority communities in the West Midlands (https://doingpolitics.weebly.com/). If you'd like to know more about my work, please contact me at: khursheed.wadia@warwick.ac.uk.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, Comparative Politics, Contentious Politics, European Politics, Gender, Governance, Islam, Migration, National Identity, Political Participation, Representation, Social Justice, Social Movements, Social Policy, Voting, Political Sociology, Feminism, Identity, Immigration, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Race, Electoral Behaviour, Political Activism, Political Engagement, Voting Behaviour, Activism

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Gender and Politics
• Migration and Ethnicity