Personnel

Linda Woodhead
Linda is Director of the Religion and Society Programme. This role involves:

• Co-ordinating the Programme and making sure it meets its objectives
• Overseeing the commissioning of research
• Acting as the public face and contact point for the Programme
• Liaising between the research councils and the projects they are funding
• Adding value to the research on the Programme, e.g. by offering training courses to researchers, and by bringing the researchers together to learn from one another
• Helping ensure that research findings are communicated effectively to the right constituencies, and that they have maximum impact.

Linda is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Lancaster University. The Directorship buys a proportion of her time for five years, but she is still based at the University.

Link to Linda’s personal website

Peta Ainsworth

Peta is Linda’s assistant on the Programme. She works half-time, and is also based at Lancaster University.

Other personnel

In addition, the Programme is supported by personnel at the AHRC and ESRC. It is directly administered by the AHRC.

The Programme is supervised by a Steering Committee.

Research is commissioned by a Commissioning Panel.

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Linda (left) and Peta (right)