Ian Law

Ian Law, (BA, PhD University of Liverpool), is Founding Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) and Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. Key works include Racism Ethnicity and Social Policy (Harvester 1996), Race in the British News (Palgrave 2002), Institutional Racism in Higher Education (Trentham Press 2004, ed. with Turney and Phillips), Racist Futures, (Ethnic and Racial Studies 2007, ed. with Sayyid), Racism, Postcolonialism, Europe, (Liverpool University Press 2008, ed. with Huggan) and Racism and Ethnicity, a global analysis (Pearson 2009). He has a long track record in managing research projects in the field of racism and ethnicity studies and some recent output includes; The Racism Reduction Agenda (CERS 2007), Comparative Analysis of Racism and Discrimination in Housing in the EU (EUMC 2005 with Harrison and Phillips), Building the Anti-Racist HEI: a toolkit, (2002 with Turney and Phillips).

E-mail: I.G.Law@leeds.ac.uk