Riaz Hassan is Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology, Flinders University in Adelaide. In his academic career spaning over 40 years he has conducted research in a number of areas including sociology of housing, sociology of suicide, organizational culture and Muslim societies.

The findings from his 10 year multi-country study of Muslim religiosity which explored key aspects of Islamic consciousness have been published in Inside Muslim Minds (Melbourne University Press 2008) and Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society (Oxford University Press 2003). He is now conducting research into the causes of the global rise of suicide terrorism.

His other publications include: Singapore: Society in Transition, ed. (Oxford University Press); Families in Flats (Singapore University Press); A Way of Dying (Oxford University Press); Suicide Explained: The Australian Experience (Melbourne University Press); The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia, co-editor with Ian McAllister and S. Dowrick (Cambridge University Press); Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia (Brill).

He has taught at the Flinders University, National University of Singapore, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, University of California Los Angeles and Yale University.  In October –December 2007, he was official visitor at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

In The Program

25 July (Friday): In Conversation: People Like Us: Inside Muslim Minds
26 July (Saturday): What men don't talk about: until now