Khadijah Elshayyal is a Research Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University Of Edinburgh. She is currently working on the ESRC-funded Digital British Islam project. Her research interests include the political agency of Muslims in diaspora contexts, on which she has published widely, and is author of Muslim Identity Politics: Islam, activism and equality in Britain (IB Tauris, 2018) and Scottish Muslims in Numbers: understanding Scotland’s Muslims through the 2011 Census (University of Edinburgh, 2016).