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Mona Makinejad

Mona Makinejad

  • Position: Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship)
  • Areas of expertise: Racism and Islamophobia, Decolonial thought, Migration, Refugees, and belonging,
  • Email: M.Makinejadbanadaki@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: 12.31 Social Sciences Building

Profile

I joined the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds in 2018 to undertake my MA and continued into my doctoral studies within the School. My PhD research focuses on refugees as political subjectivities and the formation of racialised subjects in Iran, examining how state governance, Islamophobia, and racism shape experiences of belonging and exclusion.

I have an academic background in sociology and the social sciences, with broader research interests in migration, refugee studies, racialisation, Islamophobia, and the politics of belonging.

I have worked in the School as a Teaching Assistant since 2022 and was appointed as a Lecturer in September 2025.

Research interests

My research interests include race, ethnicity and racism, Islamophobia,critical Muslim Studies and decoloniality.

Professional memberships

  • CERS (Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies)
  • International Islamophobia Studies Research Association

Student education

I teach on a variety of modules at both undergraduate and taught postgraduate level while also supervising students who are writing their undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.