Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He was awarded a MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001, made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017.

He has held over 40 grants and consultancies, has over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 275 articles and chapters. His latest book is Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism (2019).