Uncovering Islamophobia in Higher Education

Arif Mahmud is Senior Lecturer in Education and a member of the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Human Development at the University of Roehampton, UK.Maisha Islam is a Research Culture Lead (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) at the University of Southampton, UK, and is a final year doctoral student. She is also the Co-Chair of a Steering Group for a Research England and Office for Students funding programme seeking to improve access and participation of racially minoritised students within postgraduate research.

• Chapter 1 - Introduction - Systematic Islamophobia in UK Higher Education (Mahmud and Islam).- (Part 1) Islamophobia in the Ivory Tower - Theoretical and reflexive framings.- Chapter 2 – White Atmosphere and pedagogic violence: female Muslim graduate’s experiences on an undergraduate degree in a Russell Group university (Hussain and Bagguley).- Chapter 3 – The counternarratives of Black Muslim women navigating higher education (Samatar, Hassan and Osman).- Chapter 4 – The rise and decline of Muslim representation in Student Unions: Motivations and experiences of Muslim Sabbatical Officers in Student Unions (Tamea).- Chapter 5 – The Contested Phenomenon: Intersectional Identities (Khatun).- Chapter 6 – “Never let anyone tell you that you’re not good enough”: Using intersectionality to reflect on inequality in British academia (Faheem and Rahman).- Chapter 7 - To be Muslim and female in UK Higher Education: Reflections and experiences (Amer and Albayrak-Aydemir).- Chapter 8 – Between Invisibility and Hypervisibility: Reflections on being ‘Permanently Precarious’ as a British Muslim Woman within the Ivory Towers of academia (Ahmad).- Chapter 9 – “This girl is a nation”:  Muslim women’s narratives of self and survival in the academy (Mirza).- Part 2 (Institutional and policy change geared towards religious equity).- Chapter 10 – Islamophobia’s past, present and future: Insights and reflections from multi-generational Muslim academics (Islam and Modood)Chapter 11 – The Changing Landscape of Higher Education for British Muslims: Exclusion, Marginalisation, and Surveillance (Abbas).- Chapter 12 – Islamophobia in the secular university: Understanding and addressing the Muslim student awarding gap (Gholami).- Chapter 13 – Utilising the Race Equality Charter to embed Islamic practices for Muslim students and staff in higher education (Maskeen).- Chapter 14 – The ‘New’ Intersectionality of Disadvantage? British Muslim students and the Widening Participation agenda (Sardar).- Chapter 15 – Entrenched inequalities and evolving challenges – Harnessing hope for Muslim students and staff in higher education (Islam).