Shamser Sinha
Joined the department in April 2009. Previous to this I was a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at London South Bank University. I am also a playwright recently having been a recipient of the Angle Theatre New Writers Award (www.angletheatre.co.uk/whatson.htm) and a part-time youth worker at Dost, Trinity Centre, East Ham (www.thetrinitycentre.org/dost). Additionally, I am a co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Race and Ethnicity Study Group and am on the Editorial Board of Sociological Research Online (www.socresonline.org.uk/).
Conferences
S.Sinha, Resisting Racism, Resiting the Paralell Lives Thesis, Sleepwalking to Segregation? Challenging the 'Parallel Lives'
Myth : Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics, British Sociological Association Race and Ethnicity Study Group and the
British Society for Population Studies, London School of Economics, May 2009
http://multiculturality.wordpress.com/podcasts/
S.Sinha, 'The migrant generation: young separated refugees and the changing racialised politics of belonging in health and
social care in East London'. International Sociological Association, World Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, June 2008
S.Sinha, 'Changing Racisms Seeking Sanctuary in East London.' European Sociological Association, Torun, Poland, September 2007
S.Sinha, 'New targets: 'race', power and the postcolonial politics of belonging facing young separated migrants in East London. British Sociological Association Conference, London, UK April 2007
S.Sinha, S.Uppal and A.Pryce, 'Race', sexualised risk and the asylum seeker body, International Sociological Association Congress, Durban, South Africa, July. 2006
S.Sinha, S.Uppal and A.Pryce, Postcolonial racism: Sex, Pollution and the Asylum Seeker body, Racism, Postcolonialism, Europe conference, University of Leeds May 2006
S.Sinha, S. Uppal and A. Pryce, Where's the fun? Sex, risk and the refugee 'body', 2nd Global Conference - Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality. Vienna, November 2005
S.Sinha and S.Uppal. 'It's not so much they're hard to reach but we're not offering services the right way': sexual health research with unaccompanied young refugees and asylum seekers in East London, European Sociological Association Conference, September 2005
S.Sinha and S.Uppal. It's your life: the sexual health needs of young unaccompanied refugees and asylum seekers in Hackney, North East London Consortium for Research and Development and North Central London Research Consortium, November 2005
S.Uppal and S.Sinha. Asking back:dilemmas posed when young people ask questions to interviewers when researching sex and relationships, British Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, September 2005
S.Sinha, K.Curtis, H.Roberts, A.Jayakody and R.Viner. Religion, sex and attitudes to relationships amongst young people in East London, BSA Annual Conference, University of York, April 2004.
S.Sinha, Exploring Discrepancy and Transruption: Pakistanis in the UK and Turks in Germany at the BSA Annual Conference, University of York, 11th - 13th April 2003.
S.Sinha, Seeing Sameness: New Ethnicities and the Riots to a seminar organised by the British Sociological Association Race and Ethnicity Study Group in April 2002.
S.Sinha, Misconceptions of South Asian identities in the UK, Modern European Conference on South Asia in Edinburgh in September 2000.
S.Sinha Pathologising Settlers: Unsettling Culturalisms of Disadvantage at The British Association for South Asian Studies conference in August 1999.