About

Abby Day is a Research Fellow in the Department and currently Principal Investigator on an ESRC-funded project: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Belief and Identity (Co-investigator Prof. Simon Coleman). From 2007-2009 she was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department, following her AHRC-funded PhD in Religious Studies at Lancaster University. She completed an MA in Religion, Culture and Society at Lancaster University in 2002 where she was awarded the Ninian Smart prize for her dissertation, an empirical project focusing on a women’s prayer group.

 

Other academic appointments:

Associate Research Fellow, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Network Co-ordinator, Postgraduate Advanced Training Network, with Prof. Gordon Lynch, PI, Birkbeck, University of London. Funded by the Higher Education Academy Philosophy and Religious Studies subject centre.  

Consultant Anthropologist, with Dr Nicola Madge, PI, Brunel University: \\’Negotiating Identity: young people’s perspectives on faith values, community norm and social cohesion’. Funded by the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme.

Co-convenor, with Prof. Gordon Lynch, PI, Birkbeck, University of London. International network:  \\’Belief as cultural performance: towards a new framework for studying the religious and secular life-worlds of young people’.  Funded by the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme.

She is also a member of the Academic Advisory Group for the 2011 Census Questionnaire Development, Office for National Statistics.