Professor Weller is an experienced manager of externally funded research and Director of the 1999-2001 project. He provides academic leadership to the project on a half-time basis over all three of the project years, being released from substantial aspects of his Faculty role to be Principal Investigator. In this role he will take responsibility for:
Co-ordinating Co-Investigator contributions
Line management of the Project Administrator and Research Assistant
Project communications
Co-ordination and editing of project written outcomes as well as himself undertaking bibliographical research
Director of Studies of the Project Studentship
My background
Professor of Inter-Religious Relations University of Derby, Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences
Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture Regent's Park College, University of Oxford
Dr. Ghanea is a specialist in religion, human rights and international law, the examination of which is her primary contribution to the project (0.2 Full- Time Equivalent in years 1 and 3, and 0.1 Full-Time Equivalent in year 2). It is anticipated this will be of particular and distinctive importance given the current human rights policy and legal framework for discrimination and equality of opportunity in religion and belief - an important difference from the original project when the impact of the Human Rights Act, 1998 was only "on the horizon".
My background
Lecturer in International Human Rights Law Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford
Law Faculty Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Dr. Purdam was the Research Officer in the 1999-2001 project, thus contributing continuity to this project. As previously, he has particular responsibility (0.2 Full-Time Equivalent in years 1 and 3, and 0.1 Full-Time Equivalent in year 2) for quantitative data, including review of the use made of existing data and its sources and the project's questionnaire survey. Dr. Purdam is based in the Cathie Marsh Centre which is the location of the "British Data Sources on Religion" project, that is also part of the Religion and Society Research programme.
My background
Research Fellow Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester
Lisa Taylor-Clarke has a full-time Arts and Humanities Research Council doctoral studentship linked with the project.
Her research has the working title of "Religious Freedom and Sexual Orientation: Compatibility, Contestation and Convergence. The Case of Church-Related Adoption Agencies.
Professor Paul Weller is her Director of Studies and Dr. Rebecca Barnes of the University of Derby's sociology subject area is her second supervisor.
Lesley Sawley is working half-time throughout the three years of the project, mainly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Her role is to implement and collate the results of the project questionnaire survey; to support the organisation of the project fieldwork; and to organise the knowledge transfer and exchange events and the dissemination of materials.
