Yunas Samad
Emeritus Professor - FOMLSS
- Area
- School of Management
- Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences
Biography
Prof. Samad obtained his PhD from St Antony’s College, Oxford University
where he was a British Academy Doctoral Scholar and was history graduate from
London Metropolitan. His doctoral thesis was on the relationship between
ethnicity and nationalism in the Pakistan movement. He then was a
Wingate Postdoctoral Scholar and Associate Fellow of the Cecil Rhodes Chair of
Race Relations, Oxford University researching on Muslim identity politics in
the UK and was teaching at Oxford and Sussex University. He subsequently went
on to become a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations,
Warwick University and then later joined the University of Bradford where he held a
number of leadership roles including Director of the Ethnicity Social Policy
Research Centre and Director of Post-graduate Research as well as Professor of South Asian
Studies before retiring and becoming an emeritus Professor.
He was a member of the Expert
Group on Humanities advising the European Commission on its FP 7 Research
Programme and a Trustee of the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust. He has played a
prominent role in the organisation of a number of learned societies: was
Vice-chairman of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS),
Executive Committee member of the European Association for South Asian Studies
(EASAS), was Deputy Director of the South Asia Research Centre, Geneva and member of
the Co-ordinating Council of Area Studies Associations. He is on the
editorial board of Contemporary South Asia and was a visiting fellow at
Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hanns Seidel Foundation Distinguished Fellow,
Institute for Strategic Studies Islamabad.
He is a leading expert on the
study of South Asia and its diaspora, has published several books on the topic
of Pakistani nationalism, ethnicity, Islam and the War on Terror and the
diaspora. He regularly comments for the media on the Muslim diaspora and on
politics and security issues in Pakistan for a number of media outlets. He
advises a number of European governments on issues related to South Asia and
the diaspora.
He is the author of The War and Terror and Pakistan: Jihadis, Military and the People – the struggle for control, Christopher Hurst and Co, London, 2011
and A Nation in Turmoil: Nationalism and
Ethnicity in Pakistan 1937-58, Sage, New Delhi, 1995. He co-authored with
Gayen Pandey, Faultlines of Nationhood,
Roli Press, New Delhi, 2007 and with John Eade, Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage, FCO, 2003. He
co-edited with Kasturi Sen, Islam in the
European Union: Muslim Youth and the War
on Terror, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2007 and with T. Ranger, and
O. Stuart (eds.) Culture Identity and
Politics: Ethnic Minorities in Britain, Avebury, Aldershot, 1996. His
latest collection of essays Beyond Islam and Security: State and
Nation-building in Pakistan since 1947 with R. Long, G. Sing and I. Talbot;
and with Gerry Boucher, Social
Cohesion and Social Change in Europe, were both published by Routledge
(2105) and the latter was reprinted in paperback in 2017.
Research
- Belt and Road Initiative: A comparative Study, with Katherine Adney, Nottingham University
- Governance, Masculinity and Radicalization: Attitudes to Violence, with Hassan Javid , funded by LUMS Faculty Initiatives Fund\
- Aligning Migration Management and the Migration-Development Nexus (MIGNEX) with Rashid Memon and Furrukh Khan, funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 programme.
- Urbanization and Social change in Punjab, with Tahir Kamran, Beaconhouse University