I’m delighted to share that the John Fell Fund, a research fund of Oxford University Press, has agreed in principle to support phase two of the ‘Understanding Generation Z’s Religious and Spiritual Role Models’ project with a £13,960 funding commitment.
I’m so grateful to the Faculty of Theology and Religion and to the Humanities Division for their support in preparing the funding application. I’m grateful as well to the Fund for their confidence in the project and for their ongoing generosity. I’ve copied a section of the phase-two abstract below. Hopefully it will whet your appetite of what’s to come.
Abstract
This main award application is submitted to the John Fell Fund for pump-priming purposes. Funds are requested to cover the costs of a participatory research project—running from August 2024 to February 2025—which stands as a second and discrete phase of a larger study commenced in March 2024. That larger study (‘Understanding Generation Z’s Religious and Spiritual Role Models’) uses mixed-methods methods to investigate young people’s perceptions of religious and spiritual role models, in the midst of rapidly changing religious demographics and digitally mediated social contexts.
For this application, funds are requested to cover phase-two costs, which include: (1) expenses related to participatory research techniques through which c. 40 participants will systematically comment on the study’s phase-one analysis; and (2) six-month’s pay for a part-time research assistant who will help prepare, collect, and analyse the participatory research data.
We’re still recruiting!
We are still recruiting participants for the Gen Z study. Please share our participation link with anyone around the world, aged 18 – 27.
Edward A. David 
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