I am a teacher educator in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. My research examines the historical formation of education concepts. In 2012 I organised an international conference on early childhood education as a collaboration between Monash University and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana; in 2014 I organised a second of these international conferences in collaboration with Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. I am currently investigating the formation of the concept of "Belonging" as used by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

I have 15 years of interdisciplinary qualitative research experience with hard to reach groups (i.e. tribal women, LGBTQI+ persons seeking asylum), including 30 months of fieldwork in India and Germany and my high-impact publications include a prize-nominated monograph published with Cambridge University Press and two recent publications on queer asylum in Germany in Ethnic and Racial Studies (2019) and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2020). I am the co-founder and convener of the Queer European Asylum Network, an umbrella organization that centers the voices of LGBTQI+ asylum claimants, refugees and activists in policy discussions on queer migration and asylum in Europe. I hold a Ph.D. in law and society and an M.A. in sociocultural anthropology, international law, and East Asian art history from University of Zurich. I have taught courses on law and society, transnational feminisms, and intersectionality at Columbia University and City University of New York and was a Visiting Scholar and a Research Fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School. My research received support from the Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Zurich, City University of New York, and the European Commission.

I am the founding Director of the University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. I have held over 40 grants and consultancies (UK, European and US), have over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 200 articles or chapters in political philosophy, sociology and public policy. I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017. I am the co-founding editor of the international journal, Ethnicities. My publications include Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain (2005), Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea, (2007/2013) and Still Not Easy Being British: Struggles for a Multicultural Citizenship (2010); and as co-editor, Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach (2006), Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship (2009), Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness (2011), European Multiculturalisms (2012), Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect (2013), Religion in a Liberal State (2013), Multiculturalism Rethought (2015), Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: Debating the Dividing Lines (Feb, 2016) and The Problem of Religious Diversity. European Challenges, Asian Approaches (2017) . I am highly committed to public engagement and am a regular contributor to media and policy debates. My work is frequently cited by policy-makers and practioners and on several occasions has influenced policy. I have been Adviser to the Muslim Council of Britain and have served on the DfES Race, Education and Employment Forum; the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain (1997-2000); the IPPR Commission on National Security (2007-09); the National Equality Panel (2007-10); and the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life (2013-16). My impact case study, ‘Influencing law, policy and public discourse on the accommodation of Muslims in Britain’ was one of three which collectively were ranked as 3rd in the UK by the Sociology 2013 REF. The importance of public intellectual engagement is expressed in this biographical interview: http://www.tariqmodood.com/uploads/1/2/3/9/12392325/modood-interview.pdf My website is at www.tariqmodood.com

I am researcher interested in gender and how it functions in the structures determining everyday experiences of people. I am based at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies of the University of Bristol (UK). My work so far has focused on how neoliberal ideas and reforms affect livelihoods of women in East African countries. My first book (Selling Sex in Kenya: Gendered Agency under Neoliberalism, forthcoming in December 2019 CUP) relies of the life stories and narratives of self-identified sex workers in Mombasa (Kenya) to explore gendered socio-economic structures that define opportunities for women in the local economies and women’s agency when negotiating those structures for their own advantage. My research has also been published in peer-reviewed journals Development & Change, Review of African Political Economy, and New Political Economy. My current research is developing in two main areas: (1) gendered effects of new large infrastructure projects of East Africa; (2) informality and gender in food security strategies of the Caribbean states.