Noreen Mirza

Noreen Mirza received her PhD in Social Anthropology from University of Manchester, UK, in 2017, where she is currently a Teaching Associate in the department of Social Anthropology School of Social Sciences.

She is the author of Navigating the Everyday as Middle-Class British-Pakistani Women. Ethnicity, Identity and Belonging. This ethnographic monograph published by Palgrave Macmillan is based on her PhD thesis.

Noreen Mirza has worked also as a Freelance Research Assistance (fixed term) at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, researching at the Impact of Brexit on the Roma community in the UK, and has co-written a policy report on these findings.

Outside of academia Noreen Mirza is currently working as a Culture Consultant on a script for an ITV drama. She has written a series of blogs for the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relation Resource Centre on her PhD thesis as a way of presenting her research to a non-academic audience.

Publications

• Mirza, N. (2021) Navigating the Everyday as Middle-Class British-Pakistani Women. Ethnicity, Identity and Belonging. Chams: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Mirza, N. (2019) ‘Everyday living with Islamophobia’. Culture and Religion 20:3, 302-321.

Reports

• Doležalová M, Barbulescu R, Mirza N, Bica M. Closure of EU Settlement Scheme risks leaving migrant Roma behind. Policy Leeds, University of Leeds.