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Dr Sophie Gilliat-Ray 


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Position:Reader in Religious and Theological Studies, Director for the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK (Islam-UK)

Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 70121
Extension:70121
Location:5.15

Selected Publications

Forthcoming 2013 – Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy, with Stephen Pattison and Mansur Ali, Aldershot: Ashgate

2011  ‘Being There’: Shadowing a British Muslim Hospital Chaplain’, Qualitative Research, vol. 11(5): 469-486

2011  ‘Are British Muslims ‘green’?  A survey of British Muslim Environmental Activism (with M. Bryant), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 5(3): 284-306

2010  ‘Bodyworks and Fieldwork: research with British Muslim chaplains’, Culture and Religion, 11(4): 413-432

Selected Projects

  • Religious nurture in Muslim families
  • Leadership and Capacity Building in the British Muslim Community: the case of 'Muslim Chaplains'
  • Islam and Young Bangladeshis

Research Group

  • Religion in Contemporary Societies

I am also the Director for the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK (Islam-UK)

Research Interests

Islam and Muslims in Britain

Chaplaincy and religious professionals

Religion in public life and institutions

Impact and Engagement

Member of the School Senior Management Team, 2011-12, with responsibility for Innovation and Engagement


Personal Website
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/awards/index.php?page=2006awards