Dr Santokh Singh Gill joined the University of Huddersfield in July 2008 as a senior lecturer, combining teaching with research activity.  He graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with degree in Social Sciences in 1997.  His particular interest in the area of race and ethnicity prompted him to undertake a Masters degree in Race and Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick, where he received ESRC funding. He went on to complete his PhD thesis in the area of sociology at the University of Derby, examining British born Sikhs and masculinity.

Santokh has previously worked as a Researcher and Lecturer at Staffordshire University, working on various projects including research with refugees, older adults, volunteers and vulnerable families. In 2005, he joined the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture (C- SEC) at the University of Birmingham as a Research Fellow. At Birmingham, Santokh was involved in research exploring the political interests and engagements of Black and minority ethnic young people.  He was also the lead researcher and principle investigator on a Joseph  Rowntree Foundation funded project aimed at engaging hard to reach young British Muslim men of Pakistani origin in Bradford.

Responsibilities

• Module Leader for the ‘Understanding Social and Community Issues’ unit. First Year - FdSc. Police Studies programme.
• Involved in the evaluation of the Youth Justice Board’s (YJB) ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ programme with the Applied Crinmology Centre.
• Personal tutor for PhD students in the school of Human and Health Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

• South Asian masculinities
• Race/ethnicity and processes of racialisation
• Community cohesion
• BME young people
• Community engagement through arts and creative media technologies

Completed projects include:

• 2006-8 Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded collaborative project with West Bowling Youth Initiative in Bradford to conduct a research project around the work of the centre, alongside exploring issues of ethnicity, identity, faith and cohesion. Santokh is also on the steering group of the West Bowling Youth Initiative.
• 2005-6 Leverhulme Trust funded project examining the political interests and engagements of Black and Minority Ethnic young people in Birmingham and Bradford (with Theresa O’Toole and Richard Gale).
• 2005: Faith and Social Capital with John Pierson and Bernard Moss (Staffordshire University), examining the role of faith in building social capital within the West Midland’s faith communities.  

2010

Gill, S. and Worley, C. (2010) ‘‘How did it go?’ Negotiating race, racialisation and identity when teaching issues of race and equality in HE’ Enhancing Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences , 2 (3). ISSN 1756-848X

2009

Gill, S (2009) The West Bowling Youth Initiative: then, now and the future York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

2008

Gill, S (2008) Lessons from West Bowling Youth Initiative: Then, now and the future York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

2005

Pierson, J. and Gill, S. (2005) ‘Believing and Belonging: Faith Institutions and Social Capital’. In: Proceedings from the Community, Work and Family Conference 2005. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University. . ISBN 1-900139-91-X

• British Asian communities
• Community cohesion
• Men and masculinities
• Faith, ethnicity and identity
• Police learning  & teaching in Higher Education