Dr Joanna Malone

The project is run by Dr Joanna Malone who works in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. The project is an Early Career Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust. 

Joanna has been involved in a number of research projects. She is particularly interested in ageing, later life, and religious and non-religious beliefs and identities.

From 2022-2024 Joanna was a research associate on a project which aimed to investigate the role of religion in primary schools in fostering notions of citizenship and national identity, how children and their parents experienced these processes, and what this meant for children’s sense of belonging in wider society.

From 2017-2020 Joanna was part of a research project called Understanding Unbelief. At the same time, she undertook her PhD in the University of Kent Joanna where she explored the lived experiences of Non-Believing Older Adults in England. She is currently writing her first book based on this research.

Before that she completed a MSc in Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a BSc in Anthropology at the University of Southampton.

For more information, please click here to see Joanna's university web page.