Professor Paul Thomas

Building Resilience to Social Harms

University of Huddersfield

Paul Thomas is Professor of Youth and Policy and Associate Dean (Research) in the Huddersfield Centre for Research in Education and Society (HudCRES) at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

Paul’s research focusses on how Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) and broader multiculturalist policies have been implemented and enacted by ground-level practitioners and experienced by communities. He is the author of Responding to the Threat of Violent Extremism: Failing to Prevent (Bloomsbury, 2012) and many articles on P/CVE and tackling youth racism in leading international journals. His latest book (with Miah and Sanderson) is ‘Race’, Space and Place in Northern England (2020). Thomas and Professor Michele Grossman are currently working on North American replications of the Community Reporting Thresholds research.

Paul is a qualified youth and community worker and previously worked for a national youth work organisation and on youth issues for the UK Government’s Commission for Racial Equality.