Please see below for information about the upcoming Socrel Response Study Day from Dr Abby Day. Please note that bookings close shortly and that space is limited so you will need to book in quickly if you would like to go! There is a special rate for Postgrads.
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This is a small symposium with restricted numbers. Please note that bookings for this event will close May 14 2013. There are currently five places left. Please follow link below asap if you intend to come.
Making Sense of the Census
The Socrel Response
Venue: London
Date: 18 June 2013 (9.45-5.00)
The UK government Office for National Statistics (ONS) administers a census questionnaire every ten years. The purpose is to provide data to inform decisions about policy and resource allocation. In 2001, for the first time in its 150-year history, the census contained a question about religious identity. That question was repeated, with a slight variation, in 2011 and results are prompting debate and discussion amongst academics, religious leaders, faith groups, nonreligious groups and various other interested parties.
To help form a response from SocRel, our annual Study Day will develop a synthesis of SocRel analysis in order to inform wider public debates.
The event will be of empirical and theoretical interest, both empirical and theoretical, to scholars in anthropology, geography, history, philosophy, practical theology, psychology, religious studies, sociology and social policy as well as to those working in specific faith traditions.
The event is £40.00 for BSA/SocRel members; £50.00 for non-members; £20.00 for SocRel/BSA Postgraduate members/unwaged; £25.00 for Postgraduate non-members.
Registration is available via the BSA website at the following address:
For any further information, please contact Abby Day (A.F.Day@Kent .ac.uk) or Lois Lee ([log in to unmask])
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Programme
9.30-9.45
Registration
9.45-10.00
Welcome and Introductions, Dr Abby Day, Chair, Socrel
10.00-10.30
Correcting the Religious Response: How Qualitative Research Influenced the UK 2011 Census Design and Results
Dr Abby Day (Senior Research Fellow, University of Kent; Member, Office for National Statistics Academic Advisory Board for 2011 Census questions on Ethnicity, Identity, Language and Religion)
10.30-11.00
Measuring Religious Affiliation in Great Britain: The 2011 Census In Historical and Methodological Context
Dr Clive D. Field OBE (British Religion in Numbers (BRIN), University of Birmingham)
11.00-12.30
Round Table: Behind the Categories
The ‘Non-Belonging Christians’ (NBC) Surveys 2009-2010
Dr Marion Bowman and Dr Mika Lassander (Open University)
How Many Thousands? The Problems of Counting UK Pagans
Dr Vivian Crowley (Cherry Hill Seminary)
Superdiversity and the Census
Professor Martin Stringer (University of Birmingham)
Understanding ‘Not Religious’ Positions and Census Categories
Dr Lois Lee (University of Kent; Director, Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network)
12.30-1.30
Lunch
1.30-2.00
Putting the Census Result in Context: The Factors to Take Into Account
Professor Grace Davie (University of Exeter; Member, Office for National Statistics Academic Advisory Board for 2011 Census questions on Ethnicity, Identity, Language and Religion)
2.00-3.30
Roundtable: Categories and Communities
A Census Balance Sheet from a Muslim Community Perspective
Jamil Sherif (Research and Documentation Committee, Muslim Council of Great Britain)
The Popularity of Paganism: Making Sense of the British Census Figures from 2001-2011
Dr Melissa Harrington (University of Cumbria)
Using Census Data to Shape Community Policy: The British Jewish Example
Jonathan Boyd (Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Policy Research)
Reflections from Church House
Dr Bev Botting (Head of Research and Statistics, Church of England)
3.30-3.45
Break
3.45-4.15
The BHA’s 2011 Census Campaign: An Anthropological Observation
Dr Matthew Engelke (London School of Economics)
4.15-4.45
Less Christian, More Secular, and More Multi-faith? The Politics of the Census and Religious Statistics
Professor Paul Weller (University of Derby; Member, Office for National Statistics Academic Advisory Board for 2011 Census questions on Ethnicity, Identity, Language and Religion)
4.45-5
Closing remarks