Senior Lecturer in Studies in Religion, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland

Affiliated Researcher in the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge

Dr Ryan Williams is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia, and an Affiliated Researcher in the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge. His PhD (Cambridge, 2012) involved evaluating the first research-based primary prevention program for violent extremism in the UK that was part of a project funded by the European Commission. From 2013 - 2019 he conducted two research projects on Muslims in prison and post-release (probation) settings, funded by the ESRC in the Prisons Reseach Centre at Cambridge, and in 2018 he was awarded the University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Award for Public Engagement and Societal Impact for his research on inequalities in the English Criminal Justice System. His research continues to focus on issues of inclusion for minority-religious and ethnic communities in Muslim-minority countries, and he is currently completing a book based on his fieldwork with Muslims in the criminal justice system exploring the moral experience of prison and the state.