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Michael Wyness has successfully bid for funding through the ÌÇÐÄTV Creative Exchange. He will work with colleagues in the Centre for applied Linguistics and Coventry University in exploring processes of resettlement and identity formation among young refugees based at Positive Youth Foundation in Coventry. Coventry is at the forefront of helping young Syrian refugees and their families to resettle through the UK government’s Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme. The research will draw on innovative research methods from the creative arts and the social sciences in both examining and helping young Syrian refugees to negotiate the host country and culture in trying to develop a sense of who they are.

 This week and are spending three days at , adjacent to Salisbury Cathedral, working with curates and their training incumbents in order to engage the primary user communities with the outcomes of the research and with the implications for practice.

Greg completed his doctorate in CES on the educational and training relationship between curates and their training incumbents - the way in which Anglican clergy undertake years 4 thru 7 of their initial professional education. The dissertation has now been reshaped for a book.

The esteemed journal Gender and Education has just released the call for papers for a new guest edited special issue, edited by CES Assistant Professor , and Dr James Burford from Thammasat University in Thailand. The special issue is entitled "Thoughtful gatherings: gendering conferences as spaces of learning, knowledge production and community", and the call for papers can be accessed . Emily and James are also co-editors of the academic blog 'Conference Inference: Blogging the World of Conferences' .

WRERU Presentations at the Religious Research Association Conference, Washington DC, Sunday15th October 2017

Tania ap Sion, David W Lankshear and Leslie J Francis presented three stands of their WRERU research to an audience concerned with applying research findings for the ongoing professional education of church leaders

• Tania is drawing out the educational implications of research into the prayer spaces developed in churches
• David is drawing out the educational implications of research into the faith trajectory of churchgoers in their seventies and eighties
• Leslie is drawing out the educational implications of research into work-related psychological wellbeing for church leaders themselves.

The audience included national officers from mainline American denominations concerned with the applying research to church practice. They are members of the Religious Research Association.
You can read Professor Francis' Abstracts here:

'I hate them with perfect hatred'

'Assessing clergy work-related psychological health'

The Boar,'s award-winning students’ newspaper, has published an article about the Islamic Education Research Network in CES. Headed up by and funded by the DCD Family Trust charity, the network has evolved from the University’s popular Islamic education Summer Schools. Now in their second year, the Summer Schools, run by the ÌÇÐÄTV Islamic Education Project, bring Muslim teachers, faith leaders, and community and youth workers together with academics to discuss current research and share ideas on teaching and learning Islam within the context of an increasingly plural and diverse contemporary world.