Scoping a Muslim friendly Universities audit: DMU Interim Report

Date

2024-09-27

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Publisher

De Montfort University and The Aziz Foundation

Type

Working Paper

Peer reviewed

No

Abstract

The De Montfort University (DMU), Muslim-Friendly Universities audit focuses upon the student experience of British Muslim, first-year undergraduate students. It situates this experience against those students’ conceptions of their faith, and also in relation to ethnicity, gender and disability. The primary intention is to understand how these students experience their Muslimness in HE. A secondary intention is that this research will materially impact the ways in which universities can recognise intersectional and faith-based complexities in the undergraduate student experience. We intend to understand these experiences, in order to define a co-created action plan to ensure that HE is as inclusive for British Muslim students as their non-Muslim/religious peers. Our starting point for this is through partnerships with students, facilitated with support, advice and guidance from the Aziz Foundation.

Description

This project is a partnership between De Montfort University and The Aziz Foundation, as part of the latter's Muslim-Friendly Universities Programme.

Keywords

University, Transition, higher education, Islam, Muslim-friendly, faith, students-as-partners, institutional change

Citation

Hall, R., Ansley, L., Loonat, S., and Nemouchi, L. (2024) Scoping a Muslim friendly Universities audit: DMU Interim Report. De Montfort University and The Aziz Foundation.

Rights

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Research Institute

Institute for Research in Social Sciences