Investigating how attitudes and experiences of different religions have evolved
A new three year c. £400,000 academic study being led by the University is investigating how attitudes and experiences of different religious and non-religious groups in England and Wales have evolved since 1999.
Derby has secured funding from the Religion and Society programme, which contributes to the multi-disciplinary Global Uncertainties Research Councils UK Programme.
The project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council, is entitled: Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales, Theory,
Policy and Practice, 2000-2010.
The study will build on previous research led by Derby and commissioned by the Home Office in 1999 entitled: Religious Discrimination in England and Wales which found evidence of unfair treatment especially in education, employment and media; particularly as reported by Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus.
Paul Weller, Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby, headed the original project and report and will be the Principal Investigator for the new study.
Professor Weller will work with Dr Nazila Ghanea, Lecturer in International Human Rights Law and a Fellow of Kellogg College at the University of Oxford, and Dr Kingsley Purdam, Research Fellow in the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester.
Other publications from this group
- Carpenter V, ed. (2010) (Re) Collecting the Past: History and Collective Memory in Latin American Narrative, Oxford: Peter Land
- Hogan S and Pink (2010) Routes to Interiorities: Art Therapy, Anthropology and Knowing in Anthropology. Visual Anthropology. Routledge. 23 (2), 1-16
- Weller P (2010) 'Religions in the UK in the Twenty-First Century', in Hinnells J (ed.), The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions, Penguin, London, 896-920
