Yunus Samad has directed the master>'s programs in ethnicity and
the undergraduate program in South Asian Area Studies at the
University of Bradford. Prior to this, he was a Research Fellow at
the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations, Warwick University,
and Associate Fellow of the Cecil Rhodes Chair of Race Relations,
Oxford University. He also taught at Oxford and Sussex
University.He was Vice-chairman of the British Association for
South Asian Studies
(BASAS), prior to this secretary of the association, he also was
Executive Committee member of the European Association for South
Asian Studies (EASAS), on the Executive Committee of the Society
for South
Asian Studies, the British Academy and Member of the Co-ordinating
Council of Area Studies Associations. He is also on the editorial
board of a number of journals, including Contemporary South Asia
and the Journal of Peace and Democracy in South Asia. He has
numerous publications to his credit.
Kasturi Sen is a social scientist who has worked in public health
and development issues for the past twenty years. She has a
doctorate from the University of Exeter, UK in Islamic Studies
sociology and Economics. Between 1993 and 2004, she helped
coordinate a number of multinational studies for the European
Commission in South Asia and the Middle East. The most recent
project was an international meeting on Citizenship and Young
Muslims in selected countries of the European Union, in
collaboration with the University of Bradford. During 2004 she was
Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University>'s Centre for
Social Medicine and Community Health (New Delhi) and between 1996
and 2004 was
based at the University of Cambridge, Institute of Public
Health.She is currently Director of Research, at an International
Research and Training NGO INTRAC at Oxford UK. Her interests in
research and teaching span a wide spectrum and include migration
social policy, international health and the political economy of
health care. She has numerous publications to her credit.
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