University Alliance is an association of British universities which was formed in 2006 as the Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, adopting its current name in 2007.

University Alliance

New Row

Contact expert @[Full Name](fullname), @[Job Title](job_title) at @[Organization](organization) for media, speaking, professional opportunities and more.

@[Full Name](fullname) at @[Organization](organization) | Contact Form

Expert Inquiry

Open Sans

Outstanding Supervisor

2020

Coventry University for research on Muslim children in care

International Women’s Day Honour List

Title: Demystifying the Muslimah: Exploring Different Perceptions of Selected Young Muslim Women in Britain; Supervisor: Professor Alison Scott-Baumann

British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS)

British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group (SOCREL)

CoramBAAF research group (Social Work)

Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN)

Feminist Approaches within the Sociology of Religion

Women in Britain’s First Muslim Mosques: Hidden from History, but Not Without Influence

Tackling religion or belief-related harassment and hate incidents: a guide for higher education providers

The Right to be Human: How Do Muslim Women Talk about Human Rights and Religious Freedoms in Britain?

The Politics of Being Muslim and Female: Religion, Feminism and Hierarchies of Knowledge

Islam on Campus: Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain

Islamic Education in Britain: New Pluralist Paradigms

Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality: Britain in Global Contexts

Muslim Women in Britain: De-Mystifying the Muslimah (Routledge Islamic Studies)

Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion

Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Assistant Professor in Faith and Peaceful Relations in the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University. She specialises in how people engage with religion and with religious beliefs. Her work explores aspects such as personal experiences of religion, relations between different religions, the role of religion in healing communities and division, the unheard voices from minority religions, and those who don’t have any religious belief or challenge all religions. She has a particular emphasis on Islam, Muslim women's experiences of faith, and inter-faith relations.

Sariya is the Chair of the Muslims in Britain Research Network and is a Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. She is the author of several reports and texts including: Muslim Women in Britain: Demystifying the Muslimah and Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality: Britain in Global Contexts. She has been working on a 3-year funded project that is examining Islam on Campus (exploring the narratives around Islam on university campuses, with regard to radicalisation, gender and inter-faith relations). Other projects include examining how religious minority students engage with university campuses in India, the evolution of religion during the 50 years since the release of Cat Stevens’ song Peace Train, and adoption and foster care in Britain (drawing on her own personal experience as an adoptive parent).

Diversity

Muslim Women

Inter-faith Relations

Religion

Islam

Atheism

Adoption

Religious Belief

Coventry University Research Profile

Coventry University Pure Portal

SOAS Profile

Google Scholar Citations

The Conversation Profiles

Too Young to Veil?

Prevent doesn't stop students being radicalised. It just reinforces Islamophobia

Minorities on Campus: Discrimination, equality and politics of nationalism in Indian HE

Amongst the last to leave: Understanding the Journeys of Muslim Children in the Care System in the Midlands

Muslim Women in Britain c. 1890 to 1948: Historical Grounding for Modern Debates

Assistant Professor in faith and peaceful relations

Session 2, Keynote: Sariya Cheruvalil-Contractor, Assistant Professor and Research Group Leader, Faith and Peaceful Relations, Coventry University: 'The Salience of Faith to Muslim Children’s Experiences of Identity, Family and Well-being in Care'

Muslim beliefs and practices with regard to the adoption of children and foster care is currently a subject of increasing attention. Besides various circumstances that can leave many Muslim children in the care of social services, the urgent needs of unaccompanied minors coming to the UK and Europe from war-torn countries have highlighted particular challenges. Meanwhile, legal issues related to the definition of adoption and its Islamic alternative (kafala) remain a longstanding problem, often resulting in families divided across borders. Responding to such concerns, Muslim community leaders and organisations are taking an interest in formulating revised Islamic guidelines on adoption and foster care.

These efforts coincide with a recent growth of scholarship in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies on childhood and the family. Research in Islamic family law has investigated the complexities of child custody and precursors to the notion of ‘best interests of the child’. Historians have documented various forms of fictive kinship in Muslim societies of the past, and the modern development of institutionalised care of vulnerable children. Sociologists and anthropologists have likewise challenged simplistic assumptions about religious norms: while the shari`a is understood to prohibit adoption, it often coexists with an array of culturally legitimised practices (such as the custom of secret adoptions in Morocco). Critical insights from related research in other fields also invite comparison, including British social history before adoption came to be legalised less than 100 years ago in 1926, as well as the factors behind the more recent emergence of so-called ‘open adoption’.

This conference seeks to explore how such diverse perspectives can inform a new ethics of adoption and the care of orphaned or abandoned children in Muslim communities. It will bring together scholars, professionals and others concerned, with an eye towards bridging the gap between academic knowledge, social work, and public education.

#crassh #universityofcambridge #ethics

Fostering Ethics - Session 2: The Salience of Faith to Muslim Children’s Experiences in Care

Did the Muslim history in the UK begin with migration? Or does it have much older roots? Let's find out the British Muslims history includes Stories of early Victorian converts, the first mosque in Liverpool, UK and much more.

---------------

About the speaker:

Dr. Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is an assistant professor and also leads the Faith and Peaceful Relations research group at Coventry University. A sociologist of religion who works on women’s experiences of religion, inter-religious relations and British Islam, her research lays particular emphasis to capture the nuance and complexity of societal diversity, pluralism and everyday lived experiences of religion or belief.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sariya_CC

---------------

Organised by:  StriveUK  (https://striveuk.org.uk/)

We are a British Muslim socio-cultural and advocacy organisation (affiliated to the MCB), set up by young Muslim activists based in the U.K. A multicultural organization appropriately representative of Britain, our countrywide members include people from all walks of life – professionals, students, academics and full-time social workers.

We are committed to empowering community members, espouse social justice programmes and collaborate with like-minded groups to promote a more egalitarian society. Our younger members bring us immense joy and pride in their efforts to promoting awareness about themes around the environment, equality and a socially just economy. It makes us hopeful of a better future.

StriveUK also holds regular seminars and workshops for adults and children on themes and topics of contemporary relevance to create social awareness and partners relief work across the world. Our flagship ‘Women’s Conference’ brings together some of the country’s most inspirational women activists to help the fight against institutional misogyny and Islamophobia.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/striveukoffi...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/StriveUKOrg/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/striveukorg/

---------------

#britishmuslimhistory
#britishmuslim
#Islaminwest
#Islaminuk

British Muslim #History | Dr. Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor | Thafakkur-Oct 2020

An exciting collaboration between Coventry University and the Yusuf Islam Foundation will see an exploration of what peace means in 2021.
 
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the hit song Peace Train by Cat Stevens – now known as Yusuf Islam. It was written about the longing for peace and a better world. 

In early 2020 the initiative Peace Train was established by the Yusuf Islam Foundation with a focus on feeding the hungry and spreading peace.
 
Given Coventry’s unique status as an International City of Peace and Reconciliation, Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) has been working with the Yusuf Islam Foundation to put together a series of activities as part of a project called Peace Train Sounding Louder , to explore what peace means in 2021.

The project aims to address the urgent and widespread issues of conflict and insecurity in many parts of the world.
 
Islam Channel speak to Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Assistant Professor CTPSR, about the project.

Find out more: https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directories/current-projects/2020/peace-train-sounding-louder/

#Muslim #Islam #Muslims #IslamChannel

SUBSCRIBE ► https://rb.gy/fj9rd1

Stay up to date on our social media channels:
►TWITTER: https://twitter.com/islamchannel
►FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/islamchanneluk
►INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/islamchanneltv

MOST WATCHED VIDEOS ON ISLAM CHANNEL:

► LISTEN TO MORGAN FREEMAN ATTEMPT THE ADHAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO1P2LWmxHo

► MUSLIM COMEDIAN SAVE CHAPELLE FOUND ISLAM AT A PIZZA SHOP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4_9Lgym-yA

► HALIMA ADEN: FIRST HIJAB-WEARING SUPERMODEL QUITS THE FASHION INDUSTRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f0SxkRmXxk

► ELIZABETH GILBERT TELLS OPRAH WINFREY HER 'FACE OF ISLAM'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTWylSJL3PM

► MUSLIM BAKER TOLD HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 'BOMBINGS'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayAvVUFRfpc

► HIJABI COMEDIAN 'SMASHING STEREOTYPES' THROUGH STAND UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDvqw8Rq33I&t=1s

► AWARD-WINNING MUSLIM SURGEON CREATES DISPOSABLE HIJAB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9Fu1dsTkw&t=6s

► LIAM NEESON: MAYBE ISLAM THE IS ANSWER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-gF7wWcrNM

► 70-YEAR-OLD MUSLIM MAN BECOMES VIRAL TIKTOK SENSATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA2ptH8m23c&t=5s

►CANADIAN WOMAN'S UNPROVOKED ISLAMOPHOBIC RANT AT MUSLIMS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrpaFAloL7Q&t=14s

► MEET THE  VIRAL MUSLIM BAKER WHO TURNS ANYTHING INTO CAKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_uByP5fGkQ

► MUSLIM CHEF NADIYA HUSSAIN SHOCKS MARIAH CAREY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgluh8vM-J0

Watch your favourite Islam Channel shows on-demand:
http://www.islamchannel.tv

Muslim revert Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens explores meaning of peace with UK university

Dr. Sariya is an Assistant Professor and Research Group Lead for Faith and Peaceful Relations at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University. Her research interests include British Islam, women’s experiences of religion and inter-faith relations.

Listen to Dr. Sariya speak about “Muslim Children in Care” at the monthly online session by EMMMA held on Saturday, 16th January 2021.

Muslim Children in Care - Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor

Main talk by Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor on "Women in the Earliest Muslim communities c. 1890 to 1948: Uncovering the historical underpinnings of contemporary British Islam" 


Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractors research focuses on the lived experiences of religion or belief in modern Britain, with particular emphasis on Islam, Muslim womens experiences of faith, inter-faith relations and democratic methodologies that seek to work with and for research participants. She has previous worked at the Universities of Derby and Gloucestershire. 

She completed her fully-funded PhD at the University of Gloucestershire in 2010. Her doctoral research entailed a feminist giving of voice to young Muslim women in Britain. She began her post-doctoral career at the University of Derby as Project Researcher and Qualitative Lead on a three-year AHRC and ESRC Religion and Society programme project, Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales: Theory, Policy and Practice, 2000-2010. She subsequently led her own ESRC funded project on Collaborative Partnerships between Muslim institutions and HE.

7th September 2018: Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor on Women in earliest British Muslim communities

Dr Sariya Contractor delivers her lecture "Demystifying the Muslimah: Faithful Feminists" at Cardiff University

This public event was run by the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK. 
Based in the Department of Religious & Theological Studies at Cardiff University the Centre has grown to become the leading academic institution for research and teaching about Islam and Muslims in Britain.

Dr Sariya Contractor Demystifying the Muslimah: Faithful Feminists

Select Inquiry Type