Research

Over the past few years, the Religions and Education Research Unit at Warwick University (WRERU) has undertaken a large-scale research project focusing upon ‘Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity’,...

changing aims and changing measures of success in school RE Researchers: Mairi Levitt, senior lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, and Fiona Muir, now teaching RMPS at...

For thousands of years, the belief has persisted that there exists one sole God who is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good. If we disregard traditions and pre-conceived notions regarding God’s moral nature, however,...

Professor Oliver D. Crisp The study of the philosophy of religion and ethics has been an area of real growth in RS A level over the last few decades. It is a subject that lends itself to a wide range of future courses of...

A research project run by the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter, and funded by St Luke’s Trust, on ‘bridging the gaps’ in trainee and newly qualified teachers’ subject knowledge. This...

A joint research initiative between NATRE and the University of Bristol aimed at promoting better community relations in RE lessons through the use of contact theory. A team of researchers at the University of Bristol...

Carmody Grey ‘Science’ is a major conversation partner for religion in our society. Testing and scrutinising religious doctrines in light of scientific facts is perhaps the key mode in which faith claims are assessed...

Daniel Langton Evolution had been in the air well before Charles Darwin arrived on the scene. European and North American Jews from across the religious spectrum had, like their Christian counterparts, long been familiar...

Moving between two educational traditions and Research in Christian education

In this research update, there are two very different snapshots of work that is occurring within the field of RE. The first is a summary of the doctoral work of Matthew Vince, who has been focusing on the experiences...

In this edition of Research update Dr Patricia Hannam discusses her work with Brunel University, which focuses on what she feels are the forgotten dimensions of RE. This is followed by an overview of Research for RE, the...

Researching religious integration (Emma Godshaw, University of Bristol)
Researching the Birmingham Agreed Syllabus (Simone Whitehouse, University of Birmingham)

Over the past year the Shared Space project has been proceeding apace. Shared Space explores whether positive community relations can be promoted in RE lessons, an important claim for the subject made in the...

The study of Islam in universities and other academic institutions is often different to the study of Judaism and Christianity. This is because, unlike the Gospels and the Hebrew Bible, the methods of form criticism...

Research project on collective worship