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Professor Michael Keith is the Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford and holds a personal chair in the Department of Anthropology. He is also a professorial fellow at Merton College and Co-Director of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities.

Career

Michael Keith is a prominent sociologist and has been the Director of COMPAS since 2008. He was formerly Professor of Sociology, Head of Department and Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths College, University of London (1993-98). He has also held posts at the School of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London (1989-1993), the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick (1987-1989) and the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool (1986-1987).

He has also been a politician in the East End of London for twenty years and was at various times leader of the Council in Tower Hamlets, chair of the Thames Gateway London Partnership (2000-2006) and Commissioner on the National Commission on Integration and Cohesion (2006-2007). He has been a serving non-executive director of more than fifteen urban regeneration public limited companies that he was involved in either setting up or serving on the board. He was a founding Director of the Thames Gateway Urban Development Corporation.

Michael has also played an active role on a number of major public bodies in a personal capacity. He has been a board member of the Whitechapel Art Gallery since 1998 and served as a non executive director of the Homerton Foundation Trust Hospital (2006- 2013), a successful player in the health sector in East London.

He was a founding director of the Rich Mix Cultural Foundation in Shoreditch, London, a major arts facility addressing the cultural diversity of London and is currently chair of both Rich Mix Enterprises (a PLC covenanting profits to the charity) the associated charitable foundation.

Major works

Keith, M., Lash, S., Arnoldi, J. and Rooker, T. (2013) China Constructing Capitalism, London and New York: Routledge.

Keith, M. (2005), 'After the cosmopolitan? Multicultural cities and the future of racism', London and New York: Routledge.

Anastacio, J., Gidley, B., Hart, L., Keith, M., Mayo, M. and Kowarzik, U. (2000) Reflecting Realities: Participants’ Perspectives On Integrated Communities And Sustainable Development. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Pile, S. and Keith, M. (1997) Geographies of Resistance. London and New York: Routledge.

Keith, M. (1993) Race, riots and policing: Lore and Disorder in a multi-racist society. London: UCL Press.

Pile, S. and Keith, M. (Eds) (1993) Place and the politics of identity. London: Routledge.

Cross, M. and Keith, M. (Eds) (1992) Racism, the city and the state. London: Routledge.

Keith, M. and Rogers, A. (Eds) (1991) Hollow Promises ? Rhetoric and reality in the inner city. London: Cassell.

External links

In conversation with Prof Michael Keith, Centre Director-COMPAS, University of Oxford, at CSCLeaders 2013 (Commonwealth Study Conference Leaders)

The Guardian (30 April 2009) Don't leave migration policy to the BNP

The riots: clarity not justification by Michael Keith

British Library: Myths and Realities podcasts: Migration and Integration