Shenaz Bunglawala is a researcher, writer and strategist. She served as Deputy Director of the Research and Strategy Unit at Penny Appeal and before that, Assistant Director at the Aziz Foundation where she led the Public Engagement Programme. She was head of research and policy at MEND (2008-2017) where she led research on Islamophobia in the British media, racial and religious equality and the impact of counter-terrorism legislation on British Muslims. She sat on the Research Excellence Framework 2014 expert sub-panel for Theology and Religious Studies as an impact assessor and has advised on various AHRC/ESRC funded research projects on religion, politics and policy in the UK.
Her work has been published in Just War on Terror? Christian and Muslim Perspectives (Ashgate, 2010); Race Matters: Widening Ethnic Diversity in Journalism (2012); What is Islamophobia?: Racism, Social Movements and the State (2017); Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All (2017) and I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in a Times of National Security (Manchester University Press, 2020).
