Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World

Associate Fellowships

The Centre offers Associate Fellowships to scholars working in universities across the globe who wish to engage with the Centre's Globalised Muslim World research agenda.

Our Associate Fellowship programme aims to build scholarly partberships with individual academics as well as institutions in order to increase the global reach of the Centre.

Alwaleed Associate Fellowships are project-led, aiming to maintain connections with individual scholars and institutions with which the Centre has worked. 

Associate Fellows have access to funding associated to funding associated with the Alwaleed Centre's research clusters, at the discretion of cluster leads. Associate Fellows are also welcome to join Alwaleed Centre team meetingss and Work in Progress seminars.

As an Alwaleed Associate Fellows, you will be expected to:

1. Acknowledge your affiliation as Associate Fellow of the Edinburgh Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World in any publications produced during your time as an Associate Fellow of the Centre.

2. Take a leading role in one research or outreach project connected to one of the Centre's research clusters.

If you are interested in becoming an Alwaleed Associate Fellow, please contact us direclty: thealwaleedcentre@ed.ac.uk.

Current Alwaleed Associate Fellows:

Dr Ewan Stein

Dr Ewan Stein

Dr Ewan Stein is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Political and Social Science, University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD in International Relations  form the London School of Economics and holds MAs in both Arab Studies (Georgetown University) and Arabic (University of Edinburgh).

Ewan works on the intersection between international relations and, particularly Islamist, social movements in the Middle East. He is interested in the ways in which Islamic discourses have shifted over time as part of state hegemonic projects, how social movements have influenced and challenged such discourses, and how ideological and social dynamics within states shape relations among them.

Learn more about Dr Stein's work

Dr Khadijah Elshayyal

Dr Khadijah Elshayyal

Dr Khadijah Elshayyal has recently completed successive postdoctoral and teaching fellowships at the  University of Edinburgh, where she organised and taught on a number of courses across IMES and the School of Divinity. With a specialism in the contemporary history of Muslims in Britain, she received her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests lie in the representation, political and cultural activism of Muslims and ethnic minorities in the UK. She is author of Muslim Identity Politics: Islam, activism and equality in Britain (IB Tauris, 2018) and Scottish Muslims in Numbers: understanding Scotland’s Muslims through the 2011 Census (University of Edinburgh, 2016).

Dr Elshayyal is currently a Teaching Fellow at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

Learn more about Dr Elshayyal's work

Dr David Warren

Dr David Warren

Dr David Warren is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Washington University in St Louis.

He is a scholar of contemporary Islam whose research analyses the politics and discourses of the Muslim scholarly-elite (the ulama), with a particular focus on the Arab Spring and its aftermath.

Before joining Washington University in St Louis, David was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre and the creator of the Centre hugely successful Massive Open Online Course 'The Sharia and Islamic Law: An Introduction' which ran in 2019, 2020 and will run again in April 2021.

Learn more about Dr Warren and his work.