Diversity & DissentTaking Yourselves Seriously
Principal Investigator: Kate Pahl
From 2015 to 2018
Taking Yourself Seriously is a year long project that aims to create a set of co-produced resources that are connected with arts methodologies with a particular focus on research in the voluntary and community sector. Read more
Football and Connected Communities
Principal Investigator: Michael Skey
From 2015 to 2016
Focusing on young people aged between 14-18, the project has been designed to engage with three current debates around football in the UK. First, the rising cost of watching live football and the extent to which many groups primary engagement is now through media. Read more
(R)agency?: The Creative Practises of Anger
Principal Investigator: Dr Helen Limon
From 2015 to 2016
(r)agency? The Creative Practices of Anger is a multi-disciplinary network, drawing together a team of early-career researchers, working in a number of different fields – both creative and critical – and a series of research activities and case studies that together form a research project on what the role and potentialities of anger might be in communities. Read more
Ritual Reconstructed: Challenges to Disconnection, Division and Exclusion in the Jewish LGBTQI Community
Principal Investigator: Dr Margaret Greenfields
From 2014 to 2015
This collaborative project, led by Bucks New University and undertaken in partnership with Liberal Judaism/Rainbow Jews; the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University and the University of Portsmouth consists of an exploration of the interplay between faith identity and sexual orientation as mediating or disrupting factors for London and South-East England based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Read more
Collective Worship in Schools: An Evaluation of Law and Policy in the United Kingdom
Principal Investigator: Dr Alison Mawhnney Bangor University
From 2014 to 2015
The majority of schools in the UK are required by law to organise acts of collective worship (England, Northern Ireland, Wales) or religious observance (Scotland) for their pupils. Read more
Maintaining a faith community: the role of the law
Principal Investigator: Dr Ruth Gaffney-Rhys (University of Wales, Newport)
From 2012 to 2013
Legal rules may have a unifying or a divisive effect and dispute resolution mechanisms may dissipate problems and divisions or reinforce them. Furthermore, faith communities are sometimes confronted with incompatibility between their own religious laws and the secular legal system within which their community is required to operate. Read more
Gypsies, Roma and Irish travellers: histories, perceptions and representations – a review
Principal Investigator: Dr Jodie Matthews (University of Huddersfield)
2012
Amidst the prejudice suffered by the Gypsy, Roma/Romani and Irish Traveller communities today, various organisations have recognised the need to communicate some of the history of these peoples in Britain. Some of this work comes under the heading of Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month. Read more
Philosophy of Religion and Religious Communities: Defining Beliefs and Symbols
Principal Investigator: Daniel Whistler (University of Liverpool)
2012
The project consists in a review of the contributions philosophy of religion can make to debates surrounding religious discrimination. The question ‘when is it acceptable to prohibit the use of religious symbols?’ has become an extremely pertinent one for communities of all faiths in the UK. Read more
Philosophy and religious practices
Principal Investigator: Daniel Whistler (University of Liverpool)
This is a network organised by the University of Liverpool, Chesterand Liverpool Hope University, in partnership with local religious organisations, which aims to reconnect philosophers of religion with religious practitioners and so to make the work of philosophers of religion far more relevant to other contemporary research on religion by making the work of philosophers of religion far more relevant Read more
Understanding the role of ICT use in connectivity of minority communities in Wales
Principal Investigator: Dr Panayiota Tsatsou
2011
Researchers from three universities in Wales with specialisms in media, geography and policy research came together to conduct a systematic review of evidence in the interdisciplinary area of communication technologies, and connectivity of minority communities. Considering the Welsh context this work has aimed to enhance existing understanding of the role of new technologies in connectivity and inclusion of minority groups. Read more
