PinnedSocrel (British Sociological Association)·Dec 7, 2023Change the Storyteller, Change the Story?There’s an idea lurking around that it doesn’t (or shouldn’t) matter who tells your stories. In journalism, the idea prevails that the form…
PinnedSocrel (British Sociological Association)·Sep 29, 2022Social inclusion and belonging of minority identities in Christian and Muslim spacesPrevious research has found that attending belief system groups can be beneficial for mental health (Forrester-Jones et al 2018) and can…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedSocrel (British Sociological Association)·Sep 6, 2022The messier the better: exploring the value of crisisPrior to the Covid-19 pandemic, my academic career was already in a crisis. I was in the last few months of a fixed-term contract and was…
PinnedSocrel (British Sociological Association)·Jul 21, 2022Navigating a portfolio career amid multiple crisesA lot can be said about labelling something a “crisis”. A crisis can be personal — a breakup, bereavement or terrible illness, for example…
PinnedSocrel (British Sociological Association)·Feb 8, 2022Sociology of religion and critical posthumanities: blurring the boundaries of and in knowledge…After presenting my paper on the relationship between the sociology of religion and philosophical posthumanism at the British Sociological…
Socrel (British Sociological Association)·Dec 14, 2022Faith-inspired, ethically driven Muslim women during the Covid-19 pandemicIn July 2022 I presented a short paper to the annual British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion study group (Socrel) conference…
Socrel (British Sociological Association)·Oct 28, 2022Curating Spaces of Hope: co-producing shared values and practices in uncertain timesThe post-Elizabethan era is precipitating an existential shift unlike anything else, certainly since World War Two — maybe in UK history…
Socrel (British Sociological Association)·Jan 11, 2022Religion and the world of work: the organisational quest for coherenceQuakers have been contemplating how far to cede their religious beliefs to bureaucratic management since the middle of the seventeenth…
Socrel (British Sociological Association)·Dec 15, 2021The Yoga Field as a training camp: a practice-based understanding of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’…At the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion conference this year, the theme of which was Beyond Binaries in the Sociology…
Socrel (British Sociological Association)·Dec 6, 2021Forget Worldviews: Manifesto for a Postmodern Religious StudiesThe point of departure for this post is that the much-touted Worldviews paradigm (REC 2018) — in much the same fashion as the World…