Policy Research Centre

Aims and services

• Enhance the policy responses to some of the critical issues being debated today around identity, citizenship and security.
• Raise awareness of social policy concerns impacting upon the lives of Muslim citizens.
• Inform communities about policy debates and the policy making process.

• Publishing research, briefing and seminar papers to facilitate understanding and dialogue with think tanks, policy experts and journalists.
• Providing training to enhance understanding of Muslim communities and to develop policy related capacity.
• Responding to government consultations, papers and policy proposals or reforms.
• Conducting surveys and opinion polls to monitor and comment on public opinion and Muslim opinion on pertinent issues and map Muslim policy concerns.
• Providing resources, data and briefings to community groups.

  Staff

• Dilwar Hussain heads the Policy Research Centre. He is a writer, researcher and co-author of many publications
• Naved Siddiqui is a Research Fellow. He is the lead trainer and coordinator of the Centre’s training services.
• Samina Ali
• Sughra Ahmed is a Research Fellow. Her area of research is currently young Muslims in Britain.

  Research

• Mapping European Muslim Policy Concerns with the Open Society Institute
• Research on Smoking Cessation material for NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale
• Differences Between Violent and Non-violent Radicalisation with Demos
• Preventing Violent Extremism – Handbook for the Local Government Association
• Mapping Muslim women's organisations in Leicester, for the Leicester Partnership
• Radicalisation in Europe with the Change Institute