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Edinburgh, GB

Driving a culture of impact across the organisation. Leading evaluations, ensuring the alignment of our impact measurement framework with our strategic objectives, and advocating for continuous improvement.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Advance relations with industry bodies, companies, and grassroots community groups.
• Support successful delivery of UK-wide initiatives across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
• Attained top prize for outreach on the Looking Glass 2022 survey. 12,990 impressions and 251 reactions for outreach and promotional content and 85 directly encountered Tier 2 beneficiaries in Jan-Mar 2023 quarter.
• Help build capacity for effective community and peer support in Scotland and Northern Ireland, helping foster strong leadership and sustainability of our grassroots community groups.
• Promote the Impact Partnerships Programme in Scotland and Northern Ireland, championing regional projects and perspectives.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Appointed by Scottish Government Ministers to oversee the public body’s corporate governance, strategy and its representation to the Parliament, stakeholders and the wider public.
• 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: overseeing an effective framework of audit, risk management and internal control. Ensuring high standards of governance, management, propriety and conduct.
• 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽: making decisions regarding delivery of statutory functions, setting a vision and communication of that to stakeholders.
• 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗰𝘆: representing Creative Scotland to Scottish Ministers, the Parliament and wider public. Providing advice to Scottish Ministers.
• 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: monitoring performance and supporting the Senior Executive Team.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Expert in community-led participatory collections-based research for National Museums Scotland, providing internal and external advice.
• Reached 35,538 people with events and creative outputs viewed by 495K online with 16K impressions; oversaw research hub project including 15 community groups, 87 participants, and nine UK museums.
• Steered implementation of participatory collections-based research for £250K AHRC-funded project.
• Ensured project’s success; hailed as model for national centre of excellence attracting £450K legacy funding.

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Leading an interdisciplinary research project 'Black Muslim Scots and Danes: Identity, Culture and Heritage' looking at the historical and contemporary factors shaping the production of Black African Muslim cultures in Denmark and Scotland.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Led strategy, budgeting, recruitment, marketing, and public relations. Achieved shared vision and objectives by leading top-performing five staff members. Managed overall community and outreach work.
• Reached 193K students in 127 countries and generated over £24K in revenue; developed business from scratch into vibrant organisation; offered higher education services and coordinated with 59 organisations.
• Established safe sanctuary of knowledge and development for young people throughout Scotland.
• Acknowledged as subject specialist consulted by government, local authorities and media agencies.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Developing and producing mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) research addressing equality, diversity and inclusion of BAME communities in Scotland, Sweden and Denmark.
• Engaging in knowledge exchange with a wide range of stakeholders to enable the social impact of research.
• Affiliated researcher in the '𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁' joint initiative with the Edinburgh Alwaleed Centre, the Church of Scotland, Interfaith Scotland and the Almaktoum College studying and comparing Christian-Muslim.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Supporting the wellbeing and inclusion work of the chaplaincy through specialist knowledge of BAME faith traditions.
• Providing EDI training to specific schools within the university and engaging with wider community outreach projects.
• Pioneering 'Unconscious Bias' workshops and training for the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Researching the impact of Far-Right confrontation and Right-wing populism on Muslims in Europe. The project was a small-scale qualitiative study of four European cities: Edinburgh, London, Copenhagen and Malmö.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Assisting the design, peer review of the literature and marketing of the course with over 3700 students from 140 countries at Undergraduate, Masters and PhD level.
• Providing administrative support to the lead educator.
• Supervising student engagement with the course material.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Managing the community development portfolios.
• Initiating the ‘Mosque of Sanctuary’ vision attracting 3583 visitors.
• Engaging with 119 partner organisations including HEIs, media and Scottish Government agencies. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:
• Liaison with 119 institutions and directly coordinating 95 official engagements.
• Engaging 13 community projects in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and the Borders.
• Lecturing in 3 Scottish universities, hosting cultural exchange visits and Islam Festival 2016.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Teaching Introductory and Foundational Level Arabic, mentoring and assessing student progress.
• Collaborating with a team of tutors to design and deliver the course.

Mecca, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

• Conducting research to equip interns and students with leadership skills.
• Engaging with debates and discourses around the current affairs of the Islamic world.
• Community service and outreach.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Literatures, Languages, And Cultures

My thesis is titled ‘Feeling at Home and Seeing the Other Side: Muslim Responses to Right-wing Populism (RWP) in the UK & Scandinavia.’ It.

Data Science

Applied Data Science Programme. Modules studied: Foundations for Data Science, Data Analysis & Visualization, Machine Learning, Practical.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Peace And Conflict Studies

A study of theories and methodologies shaping approaches to peace and conflict. Modules included: Religiously and Ethically Grounded.

Ma, Theology, The Religious Roots Of Europe

A study of Europe's religious roots from a socio-historical perspective. Courses included: Religion and Society in Antiquity , Ancient.

Bachelor'S Degree, Islamic Theology

Four-year degree in Islamic theology. Modules included a range of Islamic sciences such as: Fiqh (Islamic Law), Tarikh (Islamic history.