Dr Fatima Khan

Early Career Fellow 2024-25

Young Muslim Minds: A Participatory Investigation into the Impact of Islamophobia on Young Muslims’ Mental Health

This fellowship examines the impacts of Islamophobia on the mental health of young Muslims living in Greater Manchester. Islamophobia is ordinary in white-majority global north states (Khan, 2022) and has been linked to increased stress and anxiety amongst young Muslims (Bunglawala, 2022), with young Muslims showing the highest rate of self-directed harm of all religious groups (Awaad et al., 2021). Compounding the problem, young Muslims have nowhere to turn to for help due to the lack of culturally sensitive mental health support and a ‘culture of silence within families' around mental ill-health (Khan and Ahmed 2022:12)

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muslim-identity Criminology UK Counter-Terrorism Security

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ECF7

Biography

Fatima Khan is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Fatima is a highly experienced participatory and qualitative researcher specialising in racism and anti-racism, Islamophobia and Muslim youth identity-making and she has published extensively in this field. She has worked with Greater Manchester’s Muslim communities for over 15 years and is deeply involved with Muslim centred organisations and race-focussed policy makers. Her methodology takes a critical, justice-oriented position, privileging the counter-stories of young Muslims to understand the “real-world” challenges they face. As a Muslim woman of Pakistani heritage, researching and theorising with young Muslims is a localised liberatory practice linked to self and collective (re)narration.

Biographical details correct as of 18.09.24