Dr Nasar Meer is Reader and Chancellor's Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde.
Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Ricard Zapata-Barrero is Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). He is co-editor of The Politics of Immigration in Multi-Level States: Governance and Political Parties (with Eve Hepburn, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and of Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach (with Anna Triandafyllidou and Tariq Modood, Routledge, 2006).