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My research interests and areas of expertise include community-based research, community development and clinical counselling with the following individuals and communities: LGBTQ+ Muslims in the Global North; Racialized Trans and gender-variant persons and access to healthcare; Racialized, ethnic, religious and sexual minorities; Violence against women and gender variant persons; Non-normative sexualities, gender identities and expressions; substance use, addictions, mental health and sanism; Visible and invisible (dis)abilities, neurodiversity and ableism; Social policy, service and program provision to gender and sexually diverse persons and communities; Race, racialization and imperialism; Sexual minorities and Islam; Religiosity, spirituality and social work practice; and Intersectional identities and identity politics. See below for my research program and funding details:

2024-2028    Co-Principal Investigator, Our Health: A Community-Based Participatory Study of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) of Two-Spirit and LGBTQQIA+ People Across Canada, CIHR, $2, 610, 366  

2024-2026    Co-Investigator, PROCESS: PRinciples to Operationalize Community Engagement, Equity, and Sustainability in South Asian Health Research in Canada, CIHR, $309, 826

2023-2024    Nominated Principal Investigator, Paying Attention to Chlamydia Testing and Management Needs of Disabled IBPOC Trans and Cis Queer Women, Femme Presenting Two-Spirit and Non-binary Individuals in Ontario, CIHR, $99, 810

2023-2022    Co-Principal Investigator, Exploring the Health, Wellness, Safety, Service Access, and Minority Stressors across the Lifecourse of 2SLGBTQ+ in the Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada: A Mixed-Methods Ecosocial Study, CIHR, $90, 061

2022-2028    Co-Investigator, Interdisciplinary LGBTQ/2S HEALTH Hub: Healing Through Education and Awareness in Stigma Reduction and Lifecourse Training in Health, CIHR, $399, 277

2020-2022    Principal Investigator, Service Needs of Sexually & Gender Diverse Muslims and Their Families: A Partnership with Salaam Canada, SSHRC, $24, 204

2020-2021    Principal Investigator, Supporting Sexually and Gender Diverse Muslims in Social Work, SSHRC, $41, 524

2020-2021    Co-Investigator, Critical Diasporic South Asian Feminisms Symposium, SSHRC, $19, 616

2019-2020    Co-Investigator, Positive Well-being and Community Experiences Among LGBTQ Immigrants and Refugees in Waterloo Region, SSHRC, $24, 950

2018-2019    Co-Investigator, Assessing Services for LGBTQ2S+ People in Kitchener-Waterloo: An Evaluation of OK2BME, KW Counselling Centre, $20, 452

2015-2016    Principal Investigator, Intersectional Identities and Resistance Strategies of LBTQ Muslim Women, OGS, $15, 000 

2024-2025    Course Remission, 51±¾É«

2023             Merit Award for Research, 51±¾É«

2022-2023    Course Remission, 51±¾É«

2021-2022    Course Remission, 51±¾É«

2021             CBRCanada Emerging Community-Based Researcher Award

2015-2016    Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

I supervise graduate students in areas related to my research interests. Please contact by email for more information.

Co-Edited Volume in English

1. Rahman, M. & Khan, M. (Co-Eds.). (2024). Queer/Muslim/Canadian: Identities, Experiences and Belonging. Palgrave Macmillan. Doi:

 Refereed book chapters

1. Khan, M. (2024). Building bridges between queer and normative Muslims. In Y. Saikia & C. Haines (Eds.), On othering: Processes and politics of unpeace (pp. 221-243). AB: AU Press.
2. Shah, S. & Khan, M. (2023). The impact of systemic Islamophobia on sexually and gender diverse Muslims in Canada. In A.M. Emon (Ed.), Islamophobia: A research agenda (pp. 31-41). UofT Press.
3. Khan, M., & Absolon, K. (2023). Meeting on a bridge: Opposing whiteness in social work education and practice/ Begegnung auf einer Brücke: Widerstand gegen die weiße Dominanz in Ausbildung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit (pp. 448-466). In Y. Akbaba & A. M. B. Heinemann (Eds.), Erziehungswissenschaften dekolonisieren: Theoretische debatten und praxisorientierte impulse. Germany: Beltz Juventa.
4. Shah, S. & Khan, M. (2023). The search for ethics in research: Learning from non-binary, queer, and trans Muslims. In J. Jean-Pierre, V. Watts, C. E. James, P. Albanese, X. Chen & M. Graydon (Eds.), Reading sociology: Unsettling a settler colonial project & re/writing sociological narratives, (4th ed.). (pp. 140-144). OUP Canada.
5. Khan, M. (2021). Working with Muslim LGBTQ service users: Assessing and locating supportive care and teaching practices. In S. Hillock (Ed.), Teaching about sex and sexualities in higher education (pp. 164-181). Toronto, ON: UofT Press.
6. Shah, S., Khan, M., & Abdel-Latif, S. (2021). Decolonizing Muslim same-sex relations: Reframing queerness as gender flexibility to build positive relationships in Muslim communities. In N. Pasha-Zaidi (Ed.), Developing a positive psychology of Islam and Muslims (pp. 261-283). Springer Publishing.
7. Khan, M. (2021). Sexually diverse Muslim women converts: Where do they stand? In N. Pasha-Zaidi (Eds.), Developing a positive psychology of Islam and Muslims (pp. 165-179). Springer Publishing.
8. Vance, K., Mulé, N.J., Khan, M. & McKenzie, C. (2018). The rise of SOGI: Human hights for LGBT people at the United Nation. In N. Nicol, A. Jjuuko, R. Lusimbo, N.J. Mulé, S. Ursell, A. Wahab and P. Waugh (Eds.), Envisioning global LGBT human rights: (Neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, resistance and hope (pp. 223-246). London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies/Human Rights Consortium.

 Refereed journal articles

1. Khan, M. & Wilson, C. (2023). We have some reconciliatory work to do: Kitchen table conversations between Black and Brown scholars in Canadian academe. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping Journal, 29(2), 84-97. Retrieved from
2. *Baksh, A. & Khan, M. (2023). Too Muslim to be a feminist and too feminist to be a Muslim? Locating lived experiences of feminism and Muslimness in social work academe. Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, 1-14. Published online,
3. McKenzie, C., & Khan, M. (2023). The university and social work under neoliberalism: Where’s the social inclusion for disabled faculty? Journal of Social Inclusion, 11(2), doi: [Open Access]

4. Khan, M. & Absolon, K. (2022). Conversations on a bridge: Reflections of an Indigenous and racialized scholar opposing whiteness in social work education and practices. The Canadian Social Work Review / Revue Canadienne de Service Social (CSWR-RCSS), 38(2), 159–178.
5. Cox, E., Warren, T., Khan, M., Wilson, C., Cameron, R., Davis, C., Coleman, T., Steffler, J., Coulombe, S., & Woodford, M. (2022). Experiences of discrimination and its impacts on well-being among racialised LGBTQ+ newcomers living in waterloo region, Ontario, Canada. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(5), E2980-E2988. doi:
6. Khan, M., Dias, G., & Thompson, A. (2021). Mapping out Indigenous and racialized critical community-based perspectives and experiences in the time of COVID. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, & Practice, 9(1), 188–198. doi: D  [Open Access]
7. Khan, M. & Mulé, N.J. (2021). Voices of resistance and agency: LBTQ Muslim women living out intersectional lives in North America. Journal of Homosexuality, 68(7), 1144-1168, doi:
8. McKenzie, C., Mulé, N.J., & Khan, M. (2021). Where is LGBTQ+ in Ontario's health care policies and programs? Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal, 22, 1-12. doi: 10.1007/s13178-021-00577-8
9. Mulé, N. J., Khan, M., & McKenzie, C. (2019). Queering Canadian social work accreditation standards and procedures: A content analysis. Journal of Social Work Education, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/02615479.2019.1648408
10. Khan, M. (2019). A social work perspective on Indigenous knowledges, anticolonial thought and contemplative pedagogy: Thoughts on decolonization and resistance. Journal of Critical Anti-Oppressive Social Inquiry, (2), 18-46. [Open Access].
11. Mulé, N. J., Khan, M., & McKenzie, C. (2017). The growing presence of LGBTQIs at the UN: Arguments and counter-arguments. Journal of International Social Work, 1-13. doi: 10.1177/0020872817702706

 Professional and community reports

1. Arayata, C.B., Davis, C., Nobiss, J., Vo, T., Sookpaiboon, S., Khan, M., Zafarr, F., Oakes, H., Giessen, E.V., &Woodford, M.R. (2022). Thriving On Campus: The Experiences of BIPOC 2SLGBTQ+ Students. Thriving On Campus, 51±¾É«: Kitchener, ON.
2. Cook, K., Woodford, M. R., Coulombe, S., Khan, M., McKenzie, C., & Lafrenière, G. (2020, August). Assessing OK2BME’s Support Services: A Multi-Service Evaluation Report. Kitchener, ON: 51±¾É«.
3. McKenzie, C., & Khan, M., Mulé, N. J. (2019, May). Towards a Federal LGBTQ2 Health Equity Strategy. Policy Brief prepared for the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, LGBTQ2 Health in Canada.
4. Mulé, N. J., McKenzie, C., & Khan, M. (2017, May). Sexual orientation and gender identity and expression (SOGIE) and the CASWE-ACFTS accreditation standards and procedures Report. Toronto: Queer Caucus, Canadian Association for Social Work Education.

• SK 552 Practice with Families
• SK 545 Introduction to Ethical Thought and Reflexive Practice
• SK 621 Reflexive Practices
• SK 501 Approaches to Community Organizing and Group Practices
• SK 545 Introduction to Ethical Thought and Reflexive Practice
• SK 508 Reflective Group and Community Practice