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Profile

I am a Professor of Sociology and have worked at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ since 2004. I am also co-director of the Centre for the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Women and Gender and Course director of the MA in Gender and International Development.

Research

My research lies at the intersection of gender, ethnicity/race and politics in Europe with a focus on Britain and France. More specifically it covers the field of political participation and policy.

I am co-author (with Gill Allwood, Professor of Gender and Politics, NTU) of:

• (Routledge, 2000)
• (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
• (Manchester University Press, 2010)

I am also co-author (with Danièle Joly, Emeritus Professor, ¹û¶³´«Ã½) of:

•  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) which won the Political Studies Association UK WJM Mackenzie prize for the best book in political science in 2018. The French translation, , is published by the Presses de l'Université Laval (Quebec).

I am co-editor (with Dr. Gabriella Lazaridis) of:

•  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

Current and past projects

• Principal Investigator: (project commissioned by Muslim Women's Network UK; funded by Comic Relief and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation) June 2022 to May 2024
• Principal Investigator: Forced Marriage Policy in France: a ¹û¶³´«Ã½ of Inclusivity and Gender Transformation (project funded by British Academy-Leverhulme; co-investigated by Professor Gill Allwood, NTU) September 2017 to November 2019
• Principal Investigator: (project funded by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Impact Fund and ESRC IAA) April 2018 to July 2019. The project evaluation report can be downloaded
• Gender and Minority Rights Cluster Lead: (project funded by EU Seventh Framework Programme for Research FP7) April 2011 to November 2015.
• Principal Investigator: Whose Security? Migration-(In)Security Dilemmas 10 Years after 9/11 (seminar series funded by ESRC) April 2011 to March 2013
• Co-Investigator: Women from Muslim Communities and Politics in Britain and France (project funded by ESRC) June 2007 to May 2011

Selected publications and reports

• Wadia, K. (2026) 'Immigration detention and gender equality policy in Britain 2010–2024: Coloniality drives a gender-blind approach' in A. Ballesteros-Pena, M. Bustelo, A. G. Mazur (eds), Gender equality behind bars: A feminist approach to penalty policies worldwide, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 261-291.
• Wadia, K. (2024) Increasing the Representation of Women from Racially Minoritised Communities in UK Local Politics. This report can be downloaded
• Allwood, A. and Wadia, K. (2020) 'Forced marriage and gender transformation: feminist state and civil society networks at the local level', French Politics, 18: 132–152,  
• Charles, N., Wadia, K., Ferrer Fons, M. and Allaste, A-A. (2018) '"I'm a feminist, I'm not ashamed and I'm proud": Young people's activism and feminist identities in Estonia, Spain and the UK', Women's Studies International Forum, 67: 23-29,  
• Charles, N. and Wadia, K. (2017) 'New British Feminisms, UK Feminista and Young People's Activism', Feminist Theory, 19(2): 165-181,  
• Joly, D. and Wadia, K. (2017) Muslim Women and Power: Political and Civic Engagement in West European Societies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Winner:

• Lazaridis, G. and Wadia, K. (eds) (2015) The Securitisation of Migration in the EU: Debates since 9/11, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Wadia, K. (2015) Interpreting Activism: Gender and Minority Rights (deliverable 7.2), MYPLACE (FP7) Project
• Wadia, K. (2015) 'Women from Muslim Communities in Britain: Political and Civic Activism in the 9/11 Era’, in T. Peace (ed.) Muslims and Political Participation in Britain, London: Routledge
• Charles, N. and Wadia, K. (2014) UK Feminista: Young Women's Feminist Activism (deliverable 7.1), MYPLACE (FP7) Project
• Charles, N., Pilkington, H., Popov, A. and Wadia, K. (2013) Interpreting Participation: UK Report (deliverable 5.3), MYPLACE (FP7) Project

Teaching 2025 – 2026

Term 1: SO923 Gender, Imperialism and International Development

Term 2: SO9E5 Feminist Theories and Epistemologies: Debates and Dilemmas

PhD supervision

I am interested in supervising research in the broad area of gender and ‘race’/ethnicity studies and more specifically political and civic engagement, equalities, public policies and social transformation. I am currently supervising the following PhD students:

• Mayurakshi Dutta (with Prof. Ravi Thiara, Sociology, ¹û¶³´«Ã½), PhD full-time, ESRC-funded)
• S. Mary Arokia (with Prof. Emily Henderson, Education Studies ¹û¶³´«Ã½), PhD full-time, ESRC-funded
• Nooda Badghisi (with Prof. Emily Henderson, Education Studies ¹û¶³´«Ã½), PhD full-time, Chancellors Scholarship-funded

 

 

 

Professor of Sociology

Office: D0.14, Social Sciences Building

Email: khursheed.wadia@warwick.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)24 765 23970

Pronouns: she/her

Advice and feedback hours: Tuesday after 3:00pm by appointment