Date: February 25 – March 1, 2019

Venue: Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

This training program is available for doctoral students registered at any higher education institution in the UK/EU and abroad. It is based on previous training developed by the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, funded by the AHRC, which led to the development of the Religion Methods website, and aims to provide students with a core training in fieldwork approaches to the study of religion.

Topics covered by the training will include:

• Conceptualizing religion for research
• Key elements and processes of research design
• The role of theory in social research
• The politics and ethics of research
• Rigor and validity in research
• Using quantitative data-sets for research on religion
• Ethnographic approaches in theory and practice
• Developing research interviews
• Applying Gender and Sexuality perspectives in the study of religion
• Comparative sociological methods
• Historical methods in the study of religion
• Writing journal articles and Book proposals

To attend this training program, students not registered at the University of Kent will be required to pay a £100 registration fee, which would cover attendance at all sessions and the costs of training materials.

Source: Religion and Society