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Listen to interviews with the Programme director and some award holders about their projects here. Hear what it is like to conduct research on religion and society and discussion of some of the issues arising. You can also access some audio outputs from projects.
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Kim Knott Short Version Oct 2009
21 October 09
Kim Knott summarises in conversation with Norman Winter the scope of her team’s research on 'Media portrayals of religion and the secular sacred'. Listen to the conversation. The complete version of this interview is available here and three short extracts: 1. 2. 3. [4min19sec]
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Linda Woodhead Complete Interview Oct 2009
01 October 09
Director Linda Woodhead talks about the Religion and Society Research Programme, including examples of commissioned projects, research findings on selected projects already completed, and some of the interesting work currently in progress in the Autumn of 2009. Listen to the complete conversation. [24min32sec]
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Linda Woodhead 2 of 3 Oct 2009
01 October 09
Director Linda Woodhead talks about some of the findings emerging from research projects already completed by the Autumn of 2009. These include research dealing with policing and security, generational differences among Muslim women, the impact of faith-based charitable activity, and a complex pattern of religious conversion revealed in Kenya. [8min 13sec]
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Linda Woodhead 3 of 3 Oct 2009
01 October 09
Director of the Religion and Society Programme Linda Woodhead talks in Autumn 2009 about new projects being funded by the Religion and Society Research Programme, including faith-based schooling, new understandings of bereavement, woodland burials, and the commercial market for modest dress. She also describes plans for public involvement in research, including a re-enactment of medieval worship. [7min54sec]
Recording produced by Norman Winter Audio content for broadcast and internet and owned by AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme.
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Isabel Rivers Summary Dec 2009
10 December 09
Professor Isabel Rivers, a Phase 2 Large Grant holder, summarises, in conversation with Norman Winter, the contribution being funded by the Religion and Society Programme to the larger project she directs on the history of dissenting academies and libraries in the period 1660-1860. An extract from the full interview and an interview with Dr David Wykes, Isabel's co-director of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, are also available. [4min 55sec]
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Robert Hoffmann and Swee-Hoon Chuah complete Feb 2010
10 February 10
Phase 1 Small Grant holder Robert Hoffmann and Swee-Hoon Chuah from Nottingham University talk with Norman Winter about their study of trust behaviour and its relationship to religious affiliation and degrees of religiosity. They describe the experimental method used with student participants in the university’s UK, Malaysia and China campuses, and draw preliminary conclusions from the results. Other podcasts from this discussion are available. [18min36sec]
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