UWTSD, £800k ESRC funding awarded to new UWTSD led research project

This relates to a new research project:

"The three-year project, entitled ‘Digital British Islam: How do Cyber Islamic Environments impact everyday life?’, is an innovative multi-institution project led by Professor Gary R. Bunt. As the Principal Investigator, Professor Bunt will work in collaboration with Co-Investigator Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Coventry University) and Co-Investigator Professor Frédéric Volpi (University of Edinburgh). The team also includes two research fellows, Dr Khadijah Elshayyal and Dr Sadek Hamid, along with two Post-Doctoral Research Assistants (to be appointed)."

Digital British Islam website

Edinburgh University, Experts assess digital impact on Muslim lives

This is a press release from Edinburgh University on the CHANSE-funded Digital Islam across Europe project. I'm a Co-Investigator on this one. Edinburgh is the lead insitution, working with Coventry and UWTSD on the UK strand of the project. European partners are in Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, and Spain. More details to follow.

I'm giving a keynote lecture at the 'Sharia in Transition' conference at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 29-30 September 2022. (PDF) .

The event is organised by Dr. Mahmud El-Wereny and Prof. Dr. Alexander-Kenneth Nagel. My 'Allah Algorithm' keynote looks at religious authority and the internet. Check out the programme for details of speakers/presentations.

Out now from Adab Yayınları:

Gary R. Bunt, Heştek İslam: Si̇ber-İslami̇ Ortamlar Di̇ni̇ Otori̇teyi̇ Nasil Dönüştürür? (trans. Mehmet Ali Başak & Aziz Akkaya) (Istanbul: Adab Yayınları, 2022). eBook. The print version is scheduled for October. More information

Gary R. Bunt, 'The Net Imam Effect: Digital Contestation of #Islam and Religious Authority', chapter in Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age, Robert Rozehnal (Anthology Editor), Bloomsbury, 2022