Dr Sara Cheikh Husain

Challenging Racisms and Enhancing Social Belonging

Deakin University

Sara Cheikh Husain is an early career researcher who has just finished her PhD at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation ADI at Deakin University. Her research, funded by the UNESCO Chair for Comparative Research on cultural diversity and Social Justice, explores Victorian Muslim Community Organisations’ perceptions of Islamophobia and responses to Islamophobia. Sara has published in academic journals and presented at various conferences.

She worked with the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network AMAN to co-produce a supplementary document to AMAN's input to the report on Anti-Muslim hatred and discrimination by the UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief (2020). Since 2018, Sara has been a member of the Challenging Racism Project CRP at Western Sydney University and is currently a causal research fellow at ADI, a researcher at Our Race social enterprise and a tertiary tutor at Macquarie University. She is also working on turning her thesis into a book.