Sana Aiyar

Harvard University, PhD student, History

The construction of national and religious identity amongst the South Asian diaspora in colonial Kenya and multicultural Britain.

saiyar@fas.harvard.edu

Panikos Panayi

De Montfort University. Professor of European History

The history of immigration into Britain. I am currently writing a book on the multiculturalization of food in Britain since 1850. I have previously published an article on the history of Indian food in Leicester.

ppanayi@dmu.ac.uk

Maggie Morrison

University of Edinburgh, PhD student

Conceptualisation(s) of Childhood(s), family, early years as experienced by Sylheti migrants in Scotland, in transnational perspective. I will employ an ethnographic methods and Mosaic Approach.

I am looking for ways within the UK to learn the Sylheti language and keen to communicate with others who have undergone similar training, or who are engaged in Bangladeshi/Bengali research

s0126379@sms.ed.ac.uk

Joya Chatterji

London School of Economics, Lecturer in International History

The South Asian diaspora in the aftermath of partition. Bengali Muslims

j.chatterji@ntlworld.com

Joanna Herbert

Queen Mary, University of London, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Oral Histories of first and second generation Ugandan Asians in London and Leicester.

j.herbert@qmul.ac.uk

Sumita Mukherjee

Keble College, University of Oxford, PhD student

South Asian Students in the United Kingdom before 1947

sumita.mukherjee@keble.ox.ac.uk

Karim Murji

The Open University, Senior Lecturer in Sociology

South Asian migrations to and presence in East Africa; Asian African literature and historiography.

k.murji@open.ac.uk

Chandrika Patel

University of Exeter, PhD Student

My research is concerned with 'signs' in British South Asian theatres and various registers they create

patelchandrika@hotmail.com

Lucy Michael

Keele University, Doctoral research student, Social Sciences/Criminology

Leadership, political and welfare representation, intergenerational relations, youth identity and moral order in the 'ethnic community'. Fieldwork conducted in Manchester as part of comparative doctoral research project (compared with Stoke-on-Trent)

l.michael@crim.keele.ac.uk

Monia Acciari

University of Manchester, PhD, Faculty of Drama

I am interested in Diasporic Cinema in Italy. I am currently working on Bollywood cinema and its presence in Italy. The topic of my PhD is Bollywood cinema and its impact on Italian visual culture.

Diasporic Cinema in Italy, particularly attention to South Asian cinema and Turkish diasporic cinema: Ferzan Ozbetek

monia.acciari@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

monia.acciari@gmail.com

Ansar Ahmed Ullah

Swadhinita Trust, Chairperson

The Swadhinata Trust is a London based non-partisan secular Bengali group that works to promote Bengali history and heritage amongst young people. The Trust was created to work with young people on a voluntary basis. It has been operating for a number of years, offering seminars, workshops, exhibitions and educational literature to young Bengali people in schools, colleges, youth clubs and community centres.

admin@swadhinata.org.uk

Shelina Khan

ginsbergisgod@hotmail.co.uk

Steve Nijjar

Writer / Director

Integration. Creating Brit-Asian work in theatre and films. Encouraging input from younger generations

stevenijja@gmail.com

Nile Green

Lecturer in South Asian History

Indian and Iranian travellers; Persian and Urdu travelogues.

nile.green@manchester.ac.uk

Bill Law and Tim Huq

East Midlands Economic Network Ltd.; Projects Director

Undertaking an Oral History of the Diaspora of Ugandan Asians to Leicester disseminated in a dvd called Preserving Asian Heritage. Currently finalising an oral history project called Belgrave Memories which interview almost 80 people who lived in Belgrave between 1945 and 2005. We will soon produce a book called Tales of Belgrave which is a collection of the full transcripts of those interviews, together with a sample of the interview materials. We also hava a Comic Book "Flavours of Leicester" produced as Heritage comic by a group of Young Leicster Asians. Other books include "Integrated Cities" with Asaf Hussain, 2004, introduction by Richard Bonney. Engagement with Cultures, 2006, foreword by Ted Cantle CBE, which looks at interculturalism in Leicester. A futher book "The Intercultural State" is due out in August 2007.

info@emen.org.uk

www.emen.org.uk

Ann David

Visiting Lecturer and Research Officer, Roehampton University

The performance of religion and identity in British Hindu communities through classical dance, ritual movement and trance dance.

a.david@roehampton.ac.uk

Anjoom Mukadam

SOAS, Research Fellow, Sociolinguistics (CETL)

Ethno-religious and linguistic identities of second and subsequent generations Indians in London

a.mukadam@soas.ac.uk

www.indobrit.com

Kim Knott

Professor, University of Leeds, Theology and Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Director of AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities

Diasporas, theory and method; religion, diasporas and identities; spatial issues; British Asian identities.

k.knott@leeds.ac.uk

Eleanor Nesbitt

Professor, University of Warwick. Faculties of Education, Religious Studies

Socialisation of young South Asians in the UK. Currently the religious identity formation of young people in mixed-faith families (all permutations of Christian/Hindu/Muslim/Sikh). I have been involved (over a 30-year period) in research projects focusing on Sikh communities (zat-biradaris) in Nottingham, and on Hindu, Sikh, Valmiki, Ravidasi and Christian communities in Coventry. Religious socialisation of young UK Gujaratis and Punjabis; values education courses associated with Sathya Sai Baba organisation and with Brahma Kumaris; identity formation of young people in mixed-faith families. Most of my ethnographic work relates to the Midlands - Nottingham Sikhs in 1979-80 (!) and Christian, Hindu and Sikh communities in Coventry 1980s onwards.

eleanor.nesbitt@warwick.ac.uk

Taniya Sharmeen

PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, UCL

Bio-cultural aspect of reproductive health issues looking at the effect of developmental environment on the symptomatic experience of menopause among migrant Bangladeshis in UK and sedentees living in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Also interested about the migration history of the Sylhetis in UK.

tsharmeen@gmail.com

Jasjit Singh

PhD Student, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds

Focusing on British Sikh Youth (18-30), transmission of religion, sources of authority and identity. This research is being carried out as part of a collaborative research studentship on "The Transmission of Sikhism among young British Sikhs (18-30)" under the AHRC/ESRC funded 'Religion & Society' programme. For further details see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sikhs

singhjmr@hotmail.com, trs5j2s@leeds.ac.uk

Sheba Saeed

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Historical Studies, University of Birmingham

I am currently conducting doctoral research in the field of begging in Mumbai, India which will be completed in an audio-visual format. "Beggars of Lahore" was my debut documentary for which I conducted research in Pakistan at Masters level.

sheba1saeed@hotmail.com

Debjani Chatterjee

Freelance Poet, Writer, Editor, Storyteller

York St John University until 2009

Interest in Indo-Anglian Literature and British South Asian Literature, especially poetry. Writing residencies have included: Bedfordshire schools; Sheffield Children’s Hospital; Sheffield’s Millennium Galleries;  the National Trust’s ‘Mayura – Untold Stories Project’ at Kedleston Hall, Derby, in 2004; Kala Kahani’s Cultural Diversity Consultant in 2004/5; and from 2006-2009 at York St John University as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow & Writer-in-Residence. Bilingual books include A Slice of Sheffield about the South Asian contribution to the cutlery industry, Daughters of a Riverine Land about Bengali women's relationship with rivers, and Sweet and Sour about Bengali food in South Yorkshire.
Associate Editor of the literary magazines, Pratibha India (since 2003) and Tadeeb International (since 2004),  and (since 2009) Literary Editor of a BME health magazine, The Colour of Health. For further details about areas of interest and publications see www.debjanichatterjee.moonfruit.com

debjani@chatterjee.freeserve.co.uk

Sarah Hackett

Lecturer in European History, University of Sunderland

My research is on the South Asian immigrant community in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, I specifically look at the level of integration within the sectors of employment, housing and education. I also research Turkish immigrants in Germany. During my research, I have until now focused specifically on the city of Bremen. My aim is to compare and contrast the long-term effect of both Britain and Germany's immigration histories and processes.

sarah.hackett-1@sunderland.ac.uk

Satyabrata
Acharya

Language Engineer

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur,India

Bengali Linguistics & Culture for South Asian Studies, Applied Linguistics, Natural Language Processing for Bengali Language, South Asian Linguistics & Culture

akroorsambaad@gmail.com

Yasumasa Sekine

Japan Women's University

Professor of Social Anthropology

Transnational phenomena among the British Asian Transnationalism andstreet phenomena Anthropology of boundary and Fieldwork methodAnthropology of pollution ESpecific research interest

ysekine@fc.jwu.ac.jp

Prasad Rao

chaisamosa.net

www.chaisamosa.net aims to provide content and services to the 2m+ Indian diaspora in the UK.

Interested in assigning research re immigration of the diaspora, inviting columns/opinions for publication on the website, and panel discussions preferably in London

prasad@chaisamosa.net

Daniel Burdsey

Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Brighton

Sport, leisure and popular culture in British Asian communities

D.C.Burdsey@brighton.ac.uk

Najah Amran

PhD Student, Religious Studies, Aberdeen University

My research investigates the concept of piety understood by Muslim women in several selected cities in Scotland. For this research I look at the new interpretation of Islam and how the local western context influences upon Muslim women's interpretations of Islam/(s) in their everyday life.

For the backdrop of my ethnographic research, I also look at the history of Islam and Muslims in Scotland, conversions to Islam among the Scottish people in 1900s and beyond. Also. the history of mosques establishment in several localities across Scotland.

n.n.amran@abdn.ac.uk

Melissa Butcher

Lecturer, Human Geography, The Open University

Managing cultural change in transforming urban space

m.butcher@open.ac.uk

Mohammod Mostazir

Prospective PHD student, Social Research, City University London

My sector of interest is maternal and child health in Bangladesh as well as developing countries. I used to work in World Health Organization (WHO) in the similar field. As I have done my MSc in Social Research methods and Statistics, quantitative statistical approach is my prefered mode of study but also open to adapt qualitative approach if needed.

mostazirwho@gmail.com

Corinne Fowler

Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature, University of Leicester

Devolved postcolonial literature in Britain; publishing and reading cultures; spoken word activity.

I was a postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC Moving Manchester project based at Lancaster University 2006-2009 and gave papers with colleagues from Writing British Asian Cities.

csf11@le.ac.uk

Sumana Ray

PhD Student, English & Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

My research concentrates on literary and artistic productions of black and Asian women in the Midlands.

I have found Richard Gale's paper on Writing Birmingham especially interesting as we share critical focus on creative writing emerging from this region. In my project, I have also explored the articulations of Britishness exemplified in the anthology 'Whispers in the Walls'.

S.Ray@warwick.ac.uk

Kerfew

British Asian Rap Star

KERFEW is born and bred in Leicester to Ugandian Refugee parents and is of Gujerati Descent. Making music for about 3 years now! has over 10 Different songs played on BBC Radio, Performed with Raghav at the Leicester Mela and has even started his own Youth Music Project...
Currently working on a video due for channel U and Brit Asia TV circulation a look at his myspace soon brings you up to speed with this British Asian Rap Star......

kerfew_01@hotmail.com

Ali Nobil Ahmad

European University Institute, Florence. Doctoral Researcher

My Phd is historical sociology of Pakistanis in East London, postwar to the present day. I also work on contemporary Pakistani migration to Italy.

ali.ahmad@iue.it