Contacts and Committee

Shadaab Rahemtulla is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the School of Divinity. He has also served as the School's Director of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, winning the CAHSS Advancing Inclusion Award in 2022. A Muslim liberation theologian, Shadaab's  interests lie in the relationship between religion, power, and resistance, exploring how sacred texts can be (re)interpreted to challenge systems of domination. He is the author of the book - Qur'an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam (2018) - and the editor of the volume, The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology  (2023). Before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2019, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Jordan in Amman, where he taught for six years.

Lauren Hall-Lew is Personal Chair of Sociolinguistics and a Professor in Linguistics and English Language in the School of PPLS. Her research focusing on the social and cultural aspects of human speech, including studying variation between speakers of different social backgrounds and in different social contexts, and how speech changes over time. She also studies linguistic variation as a social signal and the impact of accent on speakers' credibility and economic success. She is co-editor of the volume, Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation, with Cambridge University Press, and two forthcoming volumes with Oxford University Press: Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonetics and Phonology, and Dimensions of Linguistic Variation.