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Parveen Akhtar

Dr

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2663-7398
    20052020

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    Contact Details

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

    General

    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'.

    Qualifications

    • 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

    Teaching Activity

    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

    Funding Applications and Awards

    2015

    • University of Bradford, Elections 2015 Project
      Amount: £2000
    • University of Bradford, Dean’s Grant
      Amount: £2000
    • University of Bradford, Faculty of Social Science Research grant for International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans
      Amount: £2000

    2014

    • British Academy, Participation in Elite-level Workshop at Conservative Part Conference
      Amount: £300

    2011

    • British Academy, Post-doctoral Fellowship
      Amount: £224,725

    2010

    • LUMS, Research Grant for oversees research
      Amount: £1500

    2009

    • ESRC, Post-doctoral Fellowship
      Amount: £67,492

    2006

    • EUROFOR Scholarship to present at the “From Immigration Politics to Migration Management – Changes in Migration Governance, Athens
      Amount: £1000

    2005

    • ECPR Conference Scholarship to present at the ECPR annual conference, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
      Amount: £500

    2004

    • Institut für Politikwissenschaft Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Travel Grant to present at the, Transforma 2 conference, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
      Amount: £400

    2003

    • ESRC studentship (1+3) MA and PhD, University of Birmingham, UK

    Media Contributions

    2016

    2015

    2014

    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

    Scholarship and fellowship

    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

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    Research Output

    ‘No, we vote for whoever we want to’: young British Muslims making new claims on citizenship amidst ongoing forms of marginalisation

    Manning, N. & Akhtar, P., 25 Jun 2020, In : Journal of Youth Studies.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • Ethnic minorities in British politics: candidate selection and clan politics in the Labour Party

    Akhtar, P. & Peace, T., 18 Aug 2019, In : Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 45, 11, p. 1902-1918 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    Open Access
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    • The effect of territorial stigmatisation processes on ontological security: A case-study of Bradford politics

    Sullivan, P. & Akhtar, P., 1 Jan 2019, In : Political Geography. 68, p. 46-54 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • Ethnicity-based bloc voting

    Akhtar, P., Jul 2017, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior. SAGE

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

    The Political Success of the British Pakistani Diaspora

    Akhtar, P., 2017, The Pakistani Diaspora : Corridors of opportunity and uncertainty . Amjad, R. (ed.).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter