Campaign Policy Briefings

Culham St Gabriel’s is supporting the creation of a series of policy research briefings. Each briefing paper highlights relevant research and how it pertains to a broad-based, critical, reflective religion and worldviews education. We hope that the religion and worldviews community will use these briefing papers to support them in their advocacy and lobbying work with policy and decision makers, and with senior educationalists.

The following briefings are currently available to download by clicking on the images below:

Addressing the shortage of secondary religious education teachers in England and Wales

Tackling social injustice through developing epistemic literacy in religious education: Findings and recommendations from an empirical study

Worldviews, religious literacy and interfaith readiness: Bridging the gap between school and university

Addressing the Crisis: Revitalising Religious Education Teacher Recruitment

This briefing paper sets out the current challenges regarding the recruitment of Religious Education and offers policies to improve the situation.

Building community relations through research informed educational practice in schools

This briefing paper explores how schools and teachers can promote positive community relations, with particular reference to an education in religion and worldviews.

Religion, worldviews and public perception

This briefing paper draws on the findings of two nationally representative surveys commissioned through Savanta ComRes in 2021 and 2022 to show how the general public value the teaching of religion and worldviews in schools.

FoRB

FoRB briefing papers can be found under Promoting Freedom of Religion or Belief