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Featured Findings

Here we showcase interesting findings from particular projects.

Since projects have been commissioned in three phases between 2007 and 2009 and are of a varying duration, new findings are posted here as and when they become available.

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  British Religion in Numbers unveils online treasure-chest of data

  2010-05-18 00:00:00

  A great leap forward in accessing facts and figures on religion in Britain has been made possible by a project funded by the Religion and Society Programme.  Leading scholars David Voas and Clive Field with a team based at the University of Manchester this month [April 2010] launched a new free-to-use website which will be of immense value to academic researchers as well as to government, private enterprises, journalists, and anyone wanting authoritative and up-to-date data on British religion.

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  Religion, identity, and violence in Kaduna State Nigeria

  2010-01-29 00:00:00

  Dr Colette Harris and her team find that participatory action research contributes to a reduction in tensions and violence.

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  Partnerships Between Muslim Groups and Police

  2009-11-26 00:00:00

  Criminologist Basia Spalek finds that successful community policing in a counter-terrorism context requires the building of trust between police officers and community members. The Metropolitan Police's Muslim Contact Unit has managed to do this.

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  Christian Ethos Schools

  2009-11-26 00:00:00

  Dr Mark Pike finds through a combination of ethnography, interviews and surveys across five British state-funded schools of a Christian ethos that the schools encourage their students to engage critically with 'religious truth claims'.

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  From Hijab to Jilbab

  2009-11-26 00:00:00

  Dr Kaye Haw from the University of Nottingham and her team met again 10 years on a group of young Muslim women in Britain and found out how their lives and ideas had changed in that time for the Phase 1 Small Grant 'The Myth of British Identity and the Failure of Multiculturalism? From hijab to jilbab'.

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