Dr. Farah Ahmed is the Chair of Trustees and Director of Education at Shakhsiyah Schools. She is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and co-convenes the Intercultural and Conflict-transformation Dialogue’ strand of the Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research group. Dr. Ahmed has published widely on Islamic education and has worked for nineteen years on research-driven curriculum development and teacher education for Muslim teachers. Her current project is focusing on the philosophical investigation of dialogue in Islamic Educational Theory, along with an empirical study trialing dialogic pedagogy in UK madrasahs (supplementary schools).