David Voas
British sociologist (born 1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Voas (born 1955) is a quantitative social scientist. He is currently Professor of Social Science and Head of the Department of Social Science at the UCL Institute of Education. He was previously Professor of Population Studies at the University of Essex[1] and Simon Professor of Population Studies at the University of Manchester.[2]
David Voas | |
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Born | 1955 (age 68ā69) |
Academic background | |
Education | Atlantic College London School of Economics University of Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Demography |
Sub-discipline | Sociology of religion |
Institutions | University of Manchester University of Essex University College London |
Voas is on the executive committee of the European Values Study and is co-director of British Religion in Numbers, an online centre for British data on religion. He serves on the council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion and on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Sociology and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. His research concerns religious change and value change in modern societies, the intergenerational transmission of religion and values, and attitudes of and towards ethno-religious minorities.