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EL PAÍS English, 'Sunak in London, Yousaf in Edinburgh: U.K. politics takes on historic ethnic and racial diversity', 30 March, 2023

The Guardian, 'All but one of Scotland’s cabinet ministers have been white– this SNP leadership race could be a turning point',
​1 March, 2023

openDemocracy, 'In the fight for racial justice, optimism is not enough', 7 March 2022

​The National, ‘Turning point’ in racial justice must happen in Scotland', 8 February 2022

The Guardian, 'Discrimination based on your name alone is a stubborn reality in Britain today', 4 August 2021

The Guardian, 'A damning parliamentary report on racism makes it clear: the system isn't working', 12 November 2020

The Scotsman, 'White supremacist murderers' conspiracy theories have entered mainstream European politics', 15 September 2020

The Scotsman, 'Scotland must address institutional racism openly and urgently', 15 July 2020

The Guardian, 'Britain had a chance to talk about race 20 years ago. Let's get it right this time', 12 July 2020

The Scotsman, 'Scotland can’t be complacent about Covid’s impact on ethnic minorities', with Kaveri Qureshi, 4 June 2020

The Scotsman, 'Coronavirus: We are risking a Covid-19 tragedy in Europe’s refugee camps', 7 April 2020

The Times, 'A third of minority Scots face prejudice', 3 August 2017

The Herald, 'From race equality to particle physics, Royal Society of Edinburgh prizewinners announced', 9 February 2016

BBC News, 'Survey finds a third of black and ethnic minority Scots experience discrimination', 14 September 2015

Financial Times, 'This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this what?', 14 June 2014

Jewish Telegraph, 'Hostility to Jews and Muslims linked', 6 December 2013

Northumbria University Press Release, 'Jews and Muslims experience similar prejudice', 28 November 2013

Northumbria University Press Release, 'Race ends where?', 18 November 2013

Northumbria University Press Release, 'Does Scottish nationalism include ethnic minorities?', 11 September 2013

The Northern Echo, 'Living together', 7 December 2012

Times Higher Education, 'REF's effort to make knowledge visible may have cloudy results', 23 February 2012

The Guardian, 'What would independence mean for Scotland's racial minorities?', 20 May 2011

University of Bristol Press Release, 'Is it British to wear the veil?', 10 March 2010

​BBC News, 'An Asian PM in Our Time?, 9 March 2009

University of Bristol Press Release, 'Are Muslims in Britain an ethnic, racial or religious minority?', 28 January 2008

University of Bristol News Feature, 'Muslim schools in Britain?, 22 October 2007

University of Bristol Press Release, 'Muslim schools make a positive contribution', 16 March 2007

The Guardian, ​'The consequences of Muslim bad guys on-screen', 26 January 2007

 The New Statesman, 'Ziauddin Sardar confronts the commentators', 6 February 2006

Radio and Television
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BBC One Scotland, The Nine, 22 May, 2024

BBC Radio 5 Live, 21 Feb, 2024.

BBC Radio Scotland, Good Morning Scotland, 4 April 2022

BBC One Scotland, 'Disclosure: The Truth About Scotland And Racism', 4 April 2022

BBC Asian Network, ‘Being British Asian: Who do we think we are?’, 28 July 2020 

BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed, ‘Racial Inequality Now - What Explains its Persistence?’, 19 March 2018
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BBC Scotland DriveTime, 5 January 2017


BBC Radio Cumbria , 11 July 2016

BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed, 18 June 2016

BBC Radio 5, 5 Live with Emma Barnett, 8 May 2016

BBC Asian Network, 6 May 2016

BBC Radio 5, Race Relations Special, 7 December 2015


BBC World Service Newshour, Interview, 7 September 2015

BBC Asian Network, Panel Discussion, 22 April 2015

BBC Radio 4, The World Tonight, 19 January 2015

BBC Asian Network, Referendum, 15 September 2014
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BBC Radio 4, 'Who's British Now?', 14 July 2014
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BBC Radio 4, Thinking Allowed, 21 May 2014
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BBC Radio 4, Thinking Allowed, '
Scottish Nationalism and Identity', 17 June 2013

BBC Newsnight Scotland, 29 January 2013

Islam Channel, Debate, 10 December 2012

Online Media
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The Conversation, 'The UK government is using private tech companies to deliver public fund to asylum seekers', 24 March 2024

RACE.ED, 'Racial Battle Fatigue and the CRED Report', 4 April 2021

RACE.ED, 'Still an Add On? Du Bois, Whiteness and Social Science', 10 October 2020

CHPI, 'Covid-19 and BAME inequalities – the problem of institutional racism', 2 July 2020

Discover Society, 'The social determinants of Covid-19 and BAME disproportionality', 30 April 2020

Palgrave Macmillan, 'Closing Borders to Refugees is Not the Answer', April 2020

The Social Policy Blog, 'The Opportunities and Obstacles for a ‘Scottish Approach’ to Race Equality', 4 November 2019
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Identities Blog, 'Securing whiteness?', 21 August 2019

GLIMER, 'Reclaiming the local? Asylum accommodation provision in Scotland', 28 November 2018

The British Sociological Association (BSA), 'The Future Lasts a Long Time – 50 Years After Enoch Powell', October 2018
 
London School of Economics, 'Beyond the Pew Report: Christian Identities and ‘Others’ in Contemporary Europe', 9 August 2018

GLIMER, 'Local States of Exception', 21 March 2018

Maydan, 'Returning to Islamophobia as the Racialization of Islam and Muslims', 6 December 2017 
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​Democratic Audit, 'A ‘Jeffersonian’ wall or an Anglican Establishment: The US and UK’s contrasting approaches to incorporating Muslims', 20 April 2016

​​Science Scotland, 'Is Every Nation Just Imagination?', Issue 18, Spring 2015   

Research The Headlines, 'Is it true that Muslims in Britain are not ‘integrated’ and how can we measure this?', 26 September 2014

The Conversation, 'To fully embrace its minorities, Scotland’s idea of itself will have to change', 12 September 2014    
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Public Spirit, 'Tackling Antisemitism and Islamophobia Together', 13 August 2014

Democratic Audit, 'Muslim civil society organisations in Britain negotiate accusations of sectarianism when they engage in democratic politics', 1 May 2014

Policy Press Blog, 'Hedgehogs. Foxes and Sociologists', 14 May 2012
Nasar Meer
Professor of Social & Political Sciences,​ University of Glasgow
www.nasarmeer.com
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