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re the above Sotm (talk) 16:47, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

The biography of me on the page 'Tariq Modood' is out of date and cites research and publications that are less significant then other work I have done and am doing. Following advice given to me by talkers on the Helpdesk I insert below a substitute for the existing page. I would be pleased to receive feedback and to achieve a better page than the existing one.

Tariq Modood

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy (1997- ) and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship (1999- ) at the University of Bristol and one of the leading authorities on ethnic minorities in Britain.

Modood was the first pupil to attend a university from his London comprehensive school and has a Phd in political philosophy from University of Wales (Swansea), having lectured in this subject at several universities in the 1980s. He came to his current research field through voluntary and policy work, having been Chair of the Oxford Racial Equality Council in the 1980s, an Equal Opportunities Officer at the London Borough of Hillingdon (1987-89) and a Principal Employment Officer at the Commission for Racial Equality (1988-91).

Following fellowships at Nuffield College, Oxford and the University of Manchester Modood was a Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, London (1993-97). He was the leading author of Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Diversity and Disadvantage, Fourth Survey of Ethnic Minorities (PSI, 1997), which has been described as `a major milestone in social research' and `the definitive study of ethnic minority experience in Britain'. It was one of the first systematic demonstrations that non-white groups had very different employment positions and trajectories. In particular, it showed that the socio-economic condition of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis was much worse than had been thought hitherto, and had a profound impact at central and local government levels across several policy areas, especially education and employment. The Fourth Survey also had an innovative section on culture and identity, which played an important part in bringing these topics into the field of ‘race’ and so of transforming the ways in which minorities were understood.

Since then, Modood’s work has increasingly focused on British Asian Muslims, the politics of being Muslim in Britain and its relation to the theory and practice of multiculturalism and secularism. He has been at the forefront of making the condition and concerns of Muslims in Britain at the centre of research, public debate and policy in relation to Britain as a multicultural society and is recognised as one of the world’s leading authors on multiculturalism. His book, Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea, was shortlisted for a Muslim Writers Award, 2009. The research centre he founded and directs at the University of Bristol, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, is internationally renowned in its field and probably has the greatest critical mass of research on British Muslim politics in the world.

Modood has held over 40 research grants and consultancies (UK, European and US), and was a co-Director of the Leverhulme Trust funded Bristol-UCL Programme on Migration and Ethnicity (2003-2009). He has published over 30 (co-) authored and (co-) edited books and over eighty articles or chapters in political philosophy, sociology and public policy. His work has become essential reading on many student courses (30 of his publications have been reproduced in Readers) and items have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Turkish, Farsi, and Chinese. Modood is a regular contributor to the media and policy debates, was awarded a MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001 and elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004. He has served on the DfES Race, Education and Employment Forum, was part of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain (1997-2000), and a member of the IPPR Commission on National Security (2007-09) and a member of the National Equality Panel chaired by Prof John Hills (2008-10).

Selected Relevant Books and Reports (from 30 items) 2009     Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, with G. Levey  (eds) Cambridge University   Press, pp.274. 2007 	Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea, Polity Press, pp. 192. 2006          Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European  Approach,,with A. Triandafyllidou and R. Zapata-Barrero, (eds), Routledge, pp. 212. 2005            Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain, University of Minnesota Press and University of Edinburgh Press, pp. 240. 2005	Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy in the US and UK, with G Loury and S Teles (eds), Cambridge University Press, pp.642. 2004	Ethnicity, Nationalism and Minority Rights, with S May and J Squires (eds), Cambridge University Press, pp.260. 1997            (ed) Church, State and Religous Minorities, Policy Studies Institute, pp. 88. 1997          The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe, with P. Werbner (eds), Zed Books, pp. 276.

Selected Relevant Articles and Chapters (from 80+ items) 2009          (with Meer, N.) ‘The Multicultural State We Are In: Muslims, ‘Multiculture’ and the ‘Civic re-balancing’ of British Multiculturalism’, Political Studies, 57 (3), October 2009: 473-497. 2009         'Ethnicity and Religion', in Flinders, M., A. Gamble, C. Hay, and M. Kenny (eds.), 	The Oxford Handbook of British Politics,  Oxford University 	Press, pp. 484-498. 2009            ‘The State and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in Britain’ in  J Hochschild and J Mollenkopf (eds), Bringing Outsiders In, Cornell University Press, pp.233-249. 2009       (with G. Levey) ‘Liberal Democracy, Multicultural Citizenship, and the Danish Cartoon Affair’ in G B Levey and T. Modood (eds) Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, Cambridge University Press, pp. 216-242. 2009      ‘Muslims, Religious Equality and Secularism’ in G B Levey and T     Modood (eds) Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, Cambridge University Press, pp.164-185. 2008     ‘Multiculturalism, Citizenship and National Identity’, in B. Turner, E. Isin and P. Nyers (eds)  Citzenship Between Past and Future, Routledge, pp.113-122. 2007    ‘British Muslim Perspectives on Multiculturalism’, with F. Ahmad, Theory, Culture and Society, Special Issue on Global Islam, 24 (2): 187-213. 2003             ‘Muslims and the Politics of Difference’, Political Quarterly 74 (s1):100-115.

Weblinks

Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/ethnicitycitizenship

MULTICULTURALISM: A CIVIC IDEA, Polity, 2007 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/ethnicitycitizenship/flyer

G.Levey and T.Modood (eds) SECULARISM, RELIGION AND MULTICULTURAL CITIZENSHIP, Cambridge University Press, 2009 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/ethnicitycitizenship/news.html

Sotm (talk) 18:19, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe you want, a template for editors with COI to request an edit be made. Put the template on the talk page and place your request under it. Intelligent  sium  17:09, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I went to Request an edit and could not find a template (what is a template?) and went back to the article but could not locate a talk page just the button to edit it. Sotm (talk) 17:54, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

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