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Antisemitism Online
Using innovative social media data analysis tools, the study addresses various questions concerning the extent online forms of antisemitism using social media data gathered from Google, Instagram and Twitter.
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Interfaith Initiatives
A collaboration between Woolf Institute, Georgetown University Qatar and the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID), and with the generous support of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Assessing the Effectiveness of Interfaith Initiatives is a 3-year ethnographic research project that centres on Delhi, Doha & London.
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Bridging the Gap between Muslims and Hospices
On behalf of Hospice UK and Together for Short Lives, the Woolf Institute is leading the research project: Bridging the Gap between Muslims and Hospices.
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British Islam and English Law
This project aims to place the fraught relationship between English civil law and British Islam on a more principled and practical footing.
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Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations
In 2005, the Woolf Institute produced a British-Academy funded Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations.
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Exegetical Encounter in Late Antiquity
The Leverhulme Trust funded Exegetical Encounter in Late Antiquity which explored the interaction between Jewish and Christian biblical commentators in the formative period of both religions.
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A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic
This project produced the first linguistic volume to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th-20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way.
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Life and Death in Islam and Judaism
As a Junior Research Fellow, Dr Marta Dominguez-Diaz pursued a postdoctoral research project at the Woolf Institute, comparing religious variations in attitudes towards death, dying and grief and the ways in which individuals and communities respond to death in Muslim and Jewish communities in Britain.
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Measures of Success: Evaluating the Impact of Interfaith Dialogue
The overall aim of this two-year research project is to develop a set of indicators that measure the impact of direct and grassroots interreligious dialogue initiatives.
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Measures of Success: a Toolkit for the Evaluation of Interfaith Engagement
A practical toolkit designed to help interfaith organisations measure their impact at a grassroots level. The Toolkit is now available free of charge for download.
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Merchants of Innovation. The Languages of Traders
Following a conference on traders' languages (St John's College, Cambridge) which sought to place trade languages within a wider sociolinguistic context and examine their effect on standard varieties of a large number of different languages, Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner edited a themed volume with Dr Ben Outhwaite & Dr Bettina Beinhoff.
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Religious Sisterhood: Encounters of Gender, Religion and Belonging in the UK
This ethnographic study focuses on the emergence of grassroot female interfaith initiatives, analysing the creative ways religious women negotiate their challenges and struggles as women of faith, together.
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Strictly Observant Religion, Gender and the State (SORGES)
This two-year project will investigate how and why fundamentalist beliefs and practices function as they do. The project aims to understand the attraction of fundamentalist beliefs, particularly to young people of Western Europe. The research analyses contemporary dynamics in both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic religious fundamentalisms in various spatial contexts across the UK.
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Transmission and Trust: The Impact of COVID-19 on British Jewish and British Muslim Communities
The Woolf Institute has collected nationally-representative survey data to study the impact of COVID-19 on British Jewish and British Muslim communities.
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Trust in Crisis
A multi-country research project which examined trust within three separate approaches to generating local resources and enhancing individual self-awareness: inter-religious understanding, social action, and economic development.
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Wittgenstein and Interfaith Disagreement
This project explored both the potentials and the limitations of using Wittgenstein's philosophy for the purpose of understanding interreligious disagreements.