Goldsmiths, University of London
Faculty Member, Faiths & Civil Society Unit
Lancaster University, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion
About
I am the Project Manager and Research Associate for the Religious Literacy Leadership Programme, a HEFCE funded project hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London. I am also the Editor of RadicalisationResearch.org, which is funded by the AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme.
My research interests consolidate around the subject of religion; shaped, contested and lived by people in significant ways around the world. These interests reflect my education. My joint-honours undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds was in Philosophy and Theology & Religious Studies. I built on my interests in areas of philosophy and religion in my MA by research, where I concentrated on the works of Georges Bataille in comparison with Freud and Heidegger, addressing how these theorists might answer the problem of a lack of meaning in death in contemporary society.
Developing this theoretical approach in my AHRC-funded PhD, under the supervision of Professors Kim Knott and Philip Mellor, I developed an analytical model to code public utterances made by groups and their members into a set of markers that delineated their beliefs. With the aim of understanding the move to violence in the beliefs of religious and non-religious groups I utilised a neo-Durkheimian understanding of the sacred as the theoretical backdrop to this model, with a particular focus on the sacred as a bridging concept between religious and secular positions.
I have previously worked on reports for the UK government on a faiths consultation on restorative justice and a review of arts and humanities literature on terrorism. I have represented Postgraduates on the Research and Postgraduate Committee in our Department at Leeds and am currently the Postgraduate Officer for the Sociology of Religion study group (SocRel) of the British Sociological Association (BSA), for which I am also co-organising the Religion stream at the 2012 annual BSA conference.
Please do email me for details on how to join the SocRel PG email list or to learn more about what SocRel does for PGs in our subject area.
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