Munira Mirza
Development Director
Munira is now Cultural Advisor to the Mayor of London. Whilst at Policy Exchange she served as Development Director and also worked on a range of research publications.Munira has worked for a range of cultural and charitable organisations including the Royal Society of Arts and Tate. She has presented a number of programmes for BBC Radio 4 and has taught at the University of Kent and University of East London.Munira read English at Mansfield College, Oxford, and completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Kent in 2009.
Related Publications
Living apart together British Muslims and the paradox of multiculturalism
This report finds that there is a growing religiosity amongst the younger generation of Muslims and that they feel that they have less in common with non-Muslims than do their parents. Significantly, they exhibit a much stronger preference for Islamic schools and sharia law and place a greater stress on asserting their identity publicly, for example, by wearing the hijab.