Dr. Roaa Ali Moore

Biography

Roaa Ali-Moore is a Lecturer in Creative Cultural Industries and Programme Director for the MA in Creative Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on race, diversity, and the creative cultural industries, examining issues of access, inequality, and the politics surrounding marginalized cultural production. Roaa is particularly passionate about racial social justice, exploring how cultural influences can drive social change within varied cultural contexts. Currently, she is involved in several research projects, including one examining positive action measures in Creative Cultural Industries and another focused on the experiences of Arab Americans in post-9/11 America. Her research has been published in her forthcoming monograph titled 'Cultural Production of Otherness: Contemporary Arab American Drama,' and she has co-edited a volume titled 'Arab, Politics, Performance.' Roaa has experience working at the Centre for Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester, where her research addressed racial and ethnic inequality in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. She has contributed to various publications and serves on the editorial board of the journal Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity. Roaa regularly speaks at national and international conferences and is actively involved in academic organizations such as the British Sociological Association and the International Federation for Theatre Research.

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