Irna is an anthropologist, writer and oral historian specialising in British Asian heritage. She has collaborated on several exhibitions and books on this theme, including Home from Home: British Pakistanis in Mirpur, Coming of Age: 21 Years of Mela in the UK and The Grand Trunk Road: From Delhi to the Khyber Pass.

Irna also blogs about being British, Pakistani and female in Bradford, setting her personal stories against a backdrop of classic Indian films at www.bollywoodinbritain.wordpress.com.