BA, PhD

  • Ethnicity and diversity
  • Citizenship
  • Health and social care
  • Family relations

Current areas of work

  • Currently developing research in these areas after three years in the civil service

Education

  • 1982-85 Open University (BA in social sciences)
  • 1986-89 Bradford University (PhD social epidemiology)

Employment

  • March 2004 to present Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Middlesex Research, Middlesex University
  • April 2001 to March 04 Chief Social Scientist : Head of Social Research, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (first appointed Chief Research Officer in the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, and then at the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions) Previously Professor of Primary Care Research, University of Leeds; Senior Lecturer in Social and Economic Studies, University of Bradford; Senior Research Fellow/Programme Leader, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York.

Other appointments

  • 2002 to present Visiting Professor, University College London
  • 2002 to2006 Member, ESRC Strategic Research Board (previously Research Priorities Board)
  • 1999-2001 Vice Chair, North Bradford Primary Care Trust

Selected publications

  • Ahmad WIU and Bradby H (2008) Ethnicity, Health and Health Care: Understanding Diversity, Tackling Disadvantage, Oxford: Blackwell
  • Chattoo S and Ahmad WIU (2008) 'The moral economy of selfhood and caring: negotiating boundaries of personal care as an embodied practice', Sociology of Health and Illness 30(4): 550-564
  • Ahmad WIU and Bradby H (2007) 'Locating ethnicity and health: exploring concepts and contexts', Sociology of Health and Illness, 29(6): 795-810
  • Chattoo S and Ahmad, WIU (2004) 'The meaning of cancer: illness, biography and social identity', in David Kelleher and Gerard Leavey (ed) Identity and Health, Routledge (p19-36)
  • Katbamna S, Ahmad WIU, Bhakta P, Baker R and Parker G (2004) 'Do they look after their own? Informal support for South Asian carers', Health and Social Care in the Community
  • Kelaher M, Paul S, Lambert H, Ahmad WIU, Fenton S and Davey Smith G (2003) 'Ethnicity, health and health care utilization in a British study', Critical Public Health, 13(3): 231-249
  • Atkin K, Ahmad WIU and Jones L (2002) 'Young Asian deaf people and their families: negotiating relationships and identities', Sociology of Health and Illness, 24(1): 21-45
  • Ahmad WIU, Atkin K and Jones L (2002) 'Being deaf and being other things: young Asian people negotiating identities', Social Science and Medicine, 55(10): 1757-1769