Professor Ian Law
Professor of Racism and Ethnicity Studies
I have been research-active in racism and ethnicity studies since 1978 when I began my PhD on racism and housing in Liverpool. Since then, I have worked in community relations, local government and higher education settings producing theoretically-informed, empirically-based policy-relevant research output. I am the founding director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, a centre established at the University of Leeds in 1998.
Research Interests
My research has addressed a range of themes including the historical development of white racism, violent racism, institutional racism, representation of race in news media, and the problems and possibilities for achieving racial and ethnic equality across a range of public policy and private sector contexts.
Teaching
I teach racism and ethnicity studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have also developed the MA in Racism and Ethnicity Studies, for which I am responsible.
PhD Supervision
I have supervised a wide range of PhD students in my field of racism and ethnicity. Topics have included the following, the English Defence League, Zainichi Koreans in Japan, refugees in Finland, Sikh/Muslim conflict, Chinese children, contemporary Black music, Sri Lankans in Britain, Greek diasporic identities, Pakistanis and crime, ethnicity and nationalism in Malaysia and African-Caribbean elders.
Key Publications
Forthcoming Books:
Ian Law, S. Sayyid and Katy Sian (2013), Racism, Governance and Public Policy, beyond human rights, London: Routledge
Ian Law (2012), Red Racisms: racism and ethnicity in communist and post-communist contexts, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Other Books:
Ian Law and Saran Swann (2011) Ethnicity and Education in England and Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate
Ian Law (2010) Racism and Ethnicity: global debates, dilemmas, directions, London: Pearson Education
Ian Law and Graham Huggan (ed.) (2009). Racism, Postcolonialism and Europe, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Ian Law, Laura Turney and Deborah Phillips,(eds) (2004) Institutional Racism in Higher Education, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Press.
Ian Law, (2002) Race in the News, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ian Law (1996) Racism, Ethnicity and Social Policy, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf
Hugh Butcher, Robert Leach, Ian Law and Maurice Mullard (1990) Local Government and Thatcherism, London: Routledge
Gideon Ben-Tovim, John Gabriel, Ian Law and Kathy Stredder (1986) Local Politics of Race, London: Macmillan
Ian Law (1980) A History of Race and Racism in Liverpool, 1660-1950, Liverpool: MCRC
Contact Details
- Room: SSB 12.31
- Tel: 0113 343 4410
- Fax:0 113 343 4415
- Email: i.g.law@leeds.ac.uk