The Muslims in Britain Research Group (MBRG) at Liverpool Hope University draws on cross-
disciplinary research, and works collaboratively on various issues related to the challenges faced
by British Muslims in 21 st century Britain. The main aim of this group is to develop and share
new ideas of research in this field, increase interdisciplinary research, identify areas of
collaborative research, organise research seminars and conferences, and develop partnerships
with major Muslim community organisations to explore research partnerships.
This research group organises events including workshops and roundtables on contemporary
issues on British Muslims, research seminars by the members of the group, research seminar
series on particular themes, and invited seminars by external speakers. It has contributed panels in conferences organised by the university’s research centres and will also explore organising
conferences either individually at Hope or in partnerships with other institutions. Furthermore, we
will try to establish links with similar research groups or centres in other universities.
The membership of the group includes senior academics, early career academics and research
students in Liverpool Hope University and other institutions nationally and internationally. We
welcome memberships from scholars at Liverpool Hope and elsewhere who are interested in
research on Muslims in Britain.
The research group will establish partnerships with local and national Muslim community
organisations and seek to work on collaborative research projects including exploring Knowledge
Exchange Partnerships. Some members of the group already have partnerships and have worked
with major Muslim organisations, like The Muslim Council of Britain and British Muslim
Heritage Centre in Manchester. At present, we are working towards developing a community
research project at Abdullah Quilliam Mosque in Liverpool, the first Mosque in Britain
established in 1887.
Liverpool Hope University
- Professor Ron Geaves (Visiting Chair in Humanities)
- Dr Salman Al-Azami – Convener
- Rev Dr Yazid Said
- Dr Asad Ghalib
- Dr Muhammad Siddique
- Dr Ahmed Nazeer
- Dr Danyal Khan
- Professor Guy Cuthbertson
- Dr Noura Abdi
- Professor Peter McGrail
- Dr Stefan Koehn
- Rev Dr Tony Bradley
- AQM Basher (PhD Candidate in English Language & Literature)
- Khandeker Kabir Uddin (PhD Candidate in English Language & Literature)
- Ayesha Jawad (PhD Candidate in Criminology)
- Rahma Azmi (Research Assistant in Psychology)
External Members
- Dr Leon Moosavi (University of Liverpool)
- Dr Kawtar Najib (University of Liverpool)
- Dr Rizwaan Sabir (Liverpool John Moores University)
- Dr Ahmed Topkev (University of Cardiff)
- Dr Amin Al-Astewani (Lancaster University)
- Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami (University of Manchester)
- Dr Usaama al-Azami (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
- Muhammad Hasanoglu (PhD Candidate in Contemporary History, Liverpool John Moores
University)
- Geaves, R. (2018). Islam and Britain: Muslim Mission in an Age of Empire. London:
Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-7173-8
- Al-Azami, S. (2023) (Ed.). Media Language in Islam and Muslims: Terminologies and its
Effects. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031374623, 3031374622
- Malki, Issam and Ghalib, Asad K. and Kaousar, Rukhsana (2024) The impact of microfinance
on entrepreneurship and welfare among women borrowers in rural Pakistan. World
Development Perspectives, 35. ISSN 2452-2929
- Wahab, Muhammad and Siddique, Muhammad and Hasan, Fakhrul (2025) Investigating
pension choice factors among the faculty of public sector universities in
Pakistan. International Journal of Emerging Markets, 20. pp. 26-53. ISSN 1746-8809
- Khan, Muhammad Danyal (2022) Access to COVID-19 vaccination for transgender
community in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. Health Care for Women International, 44 (7-8). pp.
824-837. ISSN 0739-9332
- Cuthbertson, Guy (2023) ‘Edward Thomas (1878-1917)’. In: A History of World War One
Poetry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 350-364. ISBN 9781009120098
- Despres, Tess and Constantino, Marcelino Ayala and Lizola, Naomi Zacarias and Romero, Gerardo Sánchez and He, Shijing and Zhan, Xiao and Abdi, Noura and abu-salma, Ruba and Such, Jose and Bernd, Julia (2024) “My Best Friend’s Husband Sees and Knows Everything”: A Cross-Contextual and Cross-Country Approach to Understanding Smart Home Privacy. In: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 15-20 July 2024, Bristol, UK.
- Hashmat, Fariya and Bradley, Tony and Nawaz, Ahmad and Ghalib, Asad K. (2023) Displacement of Vulnerable Households under Climate-related Shocks in 2022. International Journal of Social Quality, 13. pp. 44-65. ISSN 1757-0344
- McGrail, Peter and Bodi, Matyas (2024) Making a Permanent Deacon: Theorising Recruitment, Selection, Formation, and Deployment in the Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool. Transformation: A Holistic Journal of International Mission Studies. ISSN 1759- 8931
- Koehn, Stefan and Amirabdollahian, Farzad (2021) Reliability, Validity, and Gender Invariance of the Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale: An Emerging Evidence for a More Concise Research Tool. International Journal of Environmental Research und Public Health, 18 (7). ISSN 1661-7827
- Moosavi, L. (2025). ‘Woked up the bum’ and other moral panics about academic decolonisation in the British news media. Comparative Education, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2025.2463807
- Najib, K. (2024). Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia. Dialogues in Human Geography, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206241262512
- Topkev, A. 2024. A democratic approach to religion news: Newspaper coverage of Christianity and Islam in the UK and Turkey. Communication Review (10.1080/10714421.2024.2424060)
- Al-Astewani, A. (2023). Religious Responses to Covid-19 in England: An Analysis of the Key Socio-Legal Themes In: Millah Journal of Religious Studies. 22, 1, p. 1–18. 18 p.
- Al-Azami, U. (2023). The embedding of an Islamophobic trope in the media: Radical versus moderate Muslims. In S. Al-Azami (Ed.), Media language on Islam and Muslims (pp. 149–172). Palgrave Macmillan.