Zanib Rasool MBE has worked 30 years in the voluntary sector in Rotherham. Zanib is currently undertaking Doctoral in Education at the University of Sheffield. She was a community researcher on the Sheffield University collaborative project, 'The social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement: Imagining different communities and making them happen,' funded by ESR/AHRC Connected Communities programme. She is also co-editor of Re-Imagining Contested Communities (Connecting Rotherham through research) book to be published in 2017. She was a researcher on the ‘Threads of time’, a co-produced participatory arts project funded by AHRC’s Connected Communities Festival 2016, AHRC funded project called ‘Taking Yourselves Seriously: artistic approaches to social cohesion’ and exploring ways in which artistic methodologies can support community-led research with a focus on the life trajectories of women from Pakistani heritage backgrounds. Zanib has co-authored Re-imagining Contested Communities: Connecting Rotherham through research book that bring together academic and community voices. She has written for academic journals and contributed to book chapters

Zanib is a poet. A selection of her poems can be found on Artsteps website:

https://www.artsteps.com/view/5f156fa87383810c145ead07

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