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Prof David Voas
27 Woburn Square
London
WC1H 0AA
Appointment
- Professor of Social Science and Head of Department
- IOE - Social Research Institute
- UCL Institute of Education
Biography
David Voas is head of the Department of Social Science in the UCL Institute of Education. He is a demographer and sociologist of religion.
David studied at London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge:
- LSE: BSc(Econ), First Class Honours (Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method), 1977
- LSE: MSc with Distinction (Demography), 1978
- Cambridge: PhD (Social & Political Sciences; ‘Demographic and historical aspects of subfertility in tropical Africa’), 1981
He worked in the private sector for a number of years and also spent extended periods outside the UK, particularly in France, the United States and Bulgaria. He returned to academic life in 1998, first as a researcher at the University of Liverpool and subsequently as a lecturer at the University of Sheffield.
David was awarded a Simon Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester in 2003 and remained there for eight years, first in the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research and later in the Institute for Social Change. In 2007, he was promoted to professor and given a chair in the Institute for Social Change, later merged into the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research.
David was Professor of Population Studies in the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex from November 2011 to January 2016. He took up his present position as Professor of Social Science and Head of the Department of Social Science at the UCL Institute of Education in February 2016.
Research Summary
David Voas uses survey data to study religious change and value change in modern societies, the intergenerational transmission of religion and values, and attitudes of and towards ethno-religious minorities. He is on the executive committee of the European Values Study and is co-director of British Religion in Numbers (www.brin.ac.uk), an online centre for British data on religion that has received recognition as a British Academy Research Project. He serves on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Sociology and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Teaching Summary
David Voas contributes occasional lectures to teaching programmes in the department. He supervises undergraduate and masters' dissertations.
Academic Background
| 1981 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Cambridge | |
| 1978 | Master of Science | London School of Economics and Political Science | |
| 1977 | Bachelor of Science (Economics) | London School of Economics and Political Science |
