Professor Karim Murji

Karim Murji is a Professor in the School of Human and Social Sciences. He was previously based at the Open University. At UWL he teaches modules in Criminology and Sociology. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Senor Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Murji has supervised several PhD students to completion on topics across criminology, policing, social policy, diversity and security. Enquiries from prospective students are welcome.

With colleagues at Oxford and Open Universities, he is an investigator on a large ESRC funded study, Open City. Publications from this project are available on the UWL Research Repository.

Karim Murji’s research is concerned with culture, ethnicity and racism and these are applied to fields such as race equality, policing, migration and public engagement. His books include Racism, Policy and Politics (Policy Press, 2017). With Sarah Neal and John Solomos he is the co-editor of An Interlocution to Sociology (Sage, 2021). With John Solomos, he is the co-editor of Racialization: Studies in theory and practice (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2015). With Sarah Neal, he is the editor of a flagship ISA journal, Current Sociology.

See Professor Karim Murji's publications list in the UWL Repository.