She is a qualitative feminist researcher with research interests and publications focusing on gendered ethnic and faith and identities with a particular specialism on Muslim families in Britain, and second and third generation British Muslim women’s identities, representations and experiences of higher education, employment, social welfare, Muslim feminisms and Islamophobia. She is currently engaged in research with British Muslim men and women on their marital partner-searching strategies and relationships, and experiences of divorce and legal and counselling services.
She is a member of the Editorial Board on the journal Gender and Education, and an Affiliate Member at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, in the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol.