Dr Asma Mustafa is interested in research on Muslims in the West; including political participation, identities, integration and transnationalism. 

Dr Mustafa received her DPhil from Oxford University in 2011. Her ESRC-funded doctoral research examined the role of ethnic, religious and national identities in the political participation of young second generation British Muslims and was published in the book Identity and Political Participation among Young British Muslims (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). Dr Mustafa is a Research Fellow on Muslims in Britain at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and Senior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. She is also facilitator for the Centre’s annual Young Muslim Leadership Programme.