Prof David Voas - personal details

Role: Simon Professor of Population Studies

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Tel: 0161 275-4836

Location: Humanities Bridgeford Street-2.13T
School of Social Sciences
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

Websites

• School of Social Sciences

David Voas was elected to a Simon Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester in 2003 and appointed to a chair in the Institute for Social Change in 2007. He previously held a lectureship at the University of Sheffield and a research post at the University of Liverpool, having returned to academic life in 1998 after a long period in the private sector. He has spent extended periods overseas, notably in Africa, India, France, the USA and Bulgaria. He is the national programme director in Great Britain for the European Values Study and co-director of British Religion in Numbers (www.brin.ac.uk), an online centre for British data on religion. He serves on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Sociology and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and on the council of the British Society for Population Studies. He spent Trinity term 2009 at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Academic qualifications:

• BSc(Econ), MSc, London School of Economics;
• PhD, Cambridge University.