Hi,
I'm
currently anglican chaplain at the University of Central England,
Birmingham. I've lived in London, Luton, Nottingham, Derby and now
Brum. I'm hoping to spend some time ("field research") in
Canada.
Having
finished an MA in Islamic studies (dissertation on the medieval christian
understandings of Islam - from Cluny to Luther) I thought I'd better go on to do
a PhD. I wanted to do some sociology and have some fun, and when I
discovered the concept of "soul riding" within snowboarding, I thought I'd have
a go at looking at the "spirituality of snowboarding" from a sociological
perspective. I've managed to find some supervisors, and to get the project
approved by the university research degrees committee. I'm now working on
some pilot interviews (I'm taking a phenominological approach) and developing my
methodology. I have more general research interests in
religions/spirituality in Postmodern culture.
I'm
enjoying discovering the soc rel peer group and look forwrad to the discussions
on this list
Neil
