Democratic Audit

Tufyal Choudhury is a Lecturer in Law at Durham University.His research and publications cover the areas of racial and religious discrimination, integration, human rights and counter terrorism, contributing to advancing both academic and public policy debates.

He has held national level advisory positions to government (Department of Communities and Local Government, Community Attitudes Survey), NGOs (JUSTICE, Discrimination Law Project), Charities (Trustee at the Muslim Youth Helpline www.myh.org) and other bodies (Judicial Studies Board’s Equal Treatment Advisory Committee www.jsboard.co.uk). He is a member of the Muslims in Britain Research Network and the Durham University Human Rights Centre.

At the international level, he has provided briefings on issues relating to his research to the European Union Parliamentary group on anti-racism and diversity, the OSCE, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.