{"id":1259,"date":"2017-06-05T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-understandingunbelief\/?page_id=1259"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:44:11","slug":"early-career-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Early career research projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"breadcrumb \"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/\" rel=\"index\">Home<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/\">Research<\/a><\/nav>\n<p>The Early Career Awards stream supports contributions from early career researchers to the task of advancing our empirical understanding of the array of phenomena commonly labelled unbelief. In October 2017 we awarded funding to\u00a010 research projects. Our early career researchers come form a range of disciplinary backgrounds including psychology, cultural studies, cognitive science, sociology, religious studies and anthropology. They will explore dimensions of unbelief in over\u00a030 countries; and across\u00a0an array of groups and contexts including minority millennials, post-Marxist societies, and a number of non-Abrahamic religious cultures that have not previously been considered in the study of unbelief.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the links below to learn more about the projects.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/life-stories-of-the-unbeliever-existential-narratives-of-living-and-dying\/\"><strong>Life Stories of the Unbeliever: Existential Narratives of Living and Dying<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPI: Dr Katie Aston, Anthropology, Newman University,\u00a0\u00a0Birmingham UK<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/understanding-unbelief-among-culturally-muslim-people-in-sweden\/\"><strong>Understanding unbelief among culturally Muslim people in Sweden<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPI: Dr Ann af Bur\u00e9n, Religious Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/minority-millennials-and-the-rise-of-religious-nones-a-comparative-analysis\/\">Minority Millennials and the Rise of \u201cReligious Nones\u201d: A Comparative Analysis<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nPI: Dr Aprilfaye Manalang, Sociology and Cultural Studies, Norfolk State University, US<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/understanding-unbelief-in-japan\/\"><strong>Understanding Unbelief in Japan<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPI: Dr Yutaka Osakabe, Independent Researcher, Tokyo Japan<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/kernels-of-doubt-a-cross-cultural-examination-of-the-ubiquity-and-form-of-religious-noncommitment\/\">Kernels of Doubt: A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Ubiquity and Form of Religious (Non)Commitment<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nPI: Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/understanding-unbelief-in-estonia\/\">Understanding unbelief in Estonia<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nPI: Dr Atko-Sulhan Remmel, Religious and Cultural Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/accurately-measuring-belief-in-god-around-the-world\/\"><strong>Accurately measuring belief in God around the world<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPI: Dr Azim Shariff, Psychology, University of British Columbia<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/jewish-unbelief-in-contemporary-britain\/\">Jewish Unbelief in Contemporary Britain<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nPI: Dr Ruth Sheldon, Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/unholy-catholic-ireland-unbelief-morality-and-the-rejection-of-the-church\/\">Unholy Catholic Ireland \u2013 Unbelief, Morality and the Rejection of the Church<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nPI: Hugh Turpin, Cognitive Science of Religion, Queen&#8217;s University, Belfast<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/research\/early-career-research-projects\/3308-2\/\">Exploring the Belief Replacement Hypothesis: What secular beliefs do non-believers have, and what psychological functions do they serve?<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nPI: Dr Valerie van Mulukom, Psychology, Coventry University, UK<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Early Career Research Projects\"><\/a><a href=\"#top\">back to top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HomeResearch The Early Career Awards stream supports contributions from early career researchers to the task of advancing our empirical understanding of the array of phenomena commonly labelled unbelief. In October 2017 we awarded funding to\u00a010 research projects. 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