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The research team consists of three investigators:
Dr. Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
Andrew is Associate Professor & Reader in Sociology at the University of Nottingham. His research interests include: Contemporary religious /spiritual identities, contemporary sexual identities, and Muslim communities in the West. In addition to this project, he is also working on an EU-funded project entitled Citizens in Diversity: A Four-Nation Study of Homophobia and Fundamental Rights (www.citidive.eu).
He is the author of Gay Male Christian Couples: Life Stories (Praeger, 1997), A Minority within A Minority: British Non-heterosexual Muslims (Economic & Social Research Council, 2003); co-author of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Lives Over 50 (York House Publishing, 2003), and Queer Spiritual Spaces: Sexuality and Sacred Places (Ashgate, 2010). His articles have appeared in journals such as British Journal of Sociology, Sociology, Sociological Review, Social Policy & Society, Sexualities, Theology & Sexuality, and Sociology of Religion.
Dr. Michael Keenan (Nottingham Trent University)
Dr. Keenan is a Lecturer in Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. His PhD thesis explored the identity negotiations of gay male Anglican clergymen. This was the first major academic study on the subject in the UK. He has previously published his work in edited collections and has a number of articles under review.
His major research interests focus on issues of religious identity, particularly within Christianity and alternative- spiritualities.
Dr. Sarah-Jane Page
Sarah-Jane is the full-time Research Fellow to this project and is based at the University of Nottingham.
Her research interests encompass religion, identity, gender and embodiment. Her doctoral thesis focused on priests as mothers in the Church of England as well as considering the non-ordained spouses of women priests. She has published in Feminist Theology .
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