We’re pleased that the Southlands Methodist Trust was able to support research culminating in this report by our University of Roehampton colleagues Dr Clare Watkins and Dr James Butler. Find out more at the launch event, May 25th, 2023, 11.30, online and in person. Contact James for details. At the heart of this project is […]
Discover the research projects that SWF engages in.
Research report: Ashes to Ashes – attitudes to death and dying
In collaboration with Theos Thinktank, we’re delighted to present this report: Ashes to Ashes: Beliefs, Trends, and Practices in Dying, Death, and the Afterlife, produced by SWF Senior Researcher Lia Shimada and Theos’ Marianne Rozario. Report summary: This project investigated current trends on, and attitudes towards dying, death, and the afterlife in the UK, and […]
Research report: Feeling Connected? Methodists’ awareness of organisational structures within the Church
Executive summary: This report outlines the findings of a preliminary study, funded by the Susanna Wesley Foundation, on the awareness of local congregation members of the different structural layers of the Methodist Church carried out by Dr Krystin Zigan, with Dr Alan Le Grys. Based on 24 semi-structured interviews with Circuit leaders, Ministers, lay leaders […]
RGTRP seminar: Process theology, freedom and power
Seminar presentation by SWF’s Emma Pavey
Article: The Change: Yoga, theology and the menopause
A new research article by Emma Pavey published in Religions journal.
Flourishing Ministers, Flourishing Communities resource
Exciting new resource for ministers and their communities
Book Review: Landscape Liturgies
Emma Pavey reviews Landscape Liturgies by Nick Mayhew Smith
Faith Learning and Churches
Forming collaborative learning communities for discipleship and mission