Room: NW922G
Phone: 0121 204 3331
Email:p.akhtar2@aston.ac.uk 
Office hours: 
Wednesday 11am-1pm
Thursday 11am-1pm

Before joining Aston, Parveen was awarded a British Academy Research Fellowship for her work on politics and Islam. 
 
Parveen has published widely on political participation, Islam, migration and social change in journals including; the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, the Political Quarterly and European Political Science. In 2013, she published a book: 'Political Participation Amongst British Pakistani Diasporas in Multicultural Britain'.

• DPhil (Political Science) ESRC funded, University of Birmingham 
• MA (Distinction) Political Science Research Methods, ESRC funded, University of Birmingham
• BA (First Class Honours) Political Science and Sociology, University of Birmingham
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Undergraduate modules

• LP3043 – Politics and Islam
• LP3045 – Politics and Protest in a Globalised World
• LP2037 – Regional Politics: South Asia

Postgraduate modules

• LPM045 – Post-migration Europe

2016

• BBC Radio Sheffield, The End of the Respect Party
• BBC Radio Leeds, Crime and Transnational Migration between the UK and Pakistan
• BCB Radio: One-to-One Parveen Akhtar http://podcasts.canstream.co.uk/bcb/index.php?cat=One-to-One 

2015

• The New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/naz-shah-interview-victory-my-mother-s-too
• The Guardian, June, 2015: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/19/bradford-one-city-two-cultures-communities-lead-parallel-lives
• The Economist, June, 2015 http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21653687-mayoralty-tower-hamlets-mess-it-unusual-when-it-all-goes-wrong
• The Economist, May, 2015 http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21647303-why-britains-universities-produce-so-many-radical-islamists-studying-jihad
• Telegraph and Argus, May 2015
• The Asian Today, April 2015
• BBC Asian Network News 29/04/2015
• BBC Radio 4 World Tonight: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r3zc0#auto
• The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21647303-why-britains-universities-produce-so-many-radical-islamists-studying-jihad
• BBC 1 Television: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nd4yl
• BBC Radio 4 Today Program: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32060413
• Asian Sunday: http://www.asiansunday.co.uk/will-the-abandoned-women-and-youth-voters-in-bradford-west-find-a-political-home/
• BBC Radio Leeds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jpbp0 from: 21:47-28 (minutes)
• The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/25/labour-candidate-chosen-to-face-galloway-resigns-after-three-days
• BBC Radio4, the World at One: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jy2g5
• The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21644155-britain-bangladeshis-have-overtaken-pakistanis-credit-poor-job-market-when-they-arrived

2014

• Asian Sunday: http://www.asiansunday.co.uk/the-common-good-the-bradford-biraderi-and-the-westminster-ugly-of-british-politics
• Asian Sunday: http://www.asiansunday.co.uk/rotherham-who-is-to-blame/
• Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/08/immigration-britains-changing-identity 

2007

• 1 hour radio show on Vienna-radio, Vienna, Theories of Political Participation
• 1hour radio show on Unityfm, UK, Muslim Leadership in the UK

2004

• Member of panel on the issue of Identity Cards with Home Secretary, David Blunkett BBC Television, UK

2011- 2013

• School of Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol
  British Academy Post-doc

2010

• Faculty of Politics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
  Visiting Researcher

2009

• University of Bristol
  ESRC Post-doc Fellowship

2008

• Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Mensche, Vienna
  Junior Koerber Scholarship (PhD fellowship) 

2006

• Science Po, Paris
  Visiting Researcher

2006

• Institute for Ethnic and Migration Studies, Amsterdam
  Visiting Researcher (ESRC funded)

2005

• Aalborg University, Denmark
  School for Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Research on Interculturalism and Transnationalism, (SPIRIT) scholarship