Career
Gilliat-Ray studied Religious studies and interfaith studies at the University of Wales,Lampeter,where she completed her PhD 'Perspectives on the Religious Identity of Muslims in Britain' in 1994. [2] From 1994 until 1997 she was a research fellow in the department of sociology at the University of Warwick,and in 1998 at the University of Exeter. [3] Since 1998 she has worked at Cardiff University,where she was promoted to professor in 2013. [3] She is the director of the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK.
She was the principal investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'Leadership and Capacity Building in the British Muslim Community:the case of 'Muslim Chaplains' (2008–12), [4] [5] [6] She has also been the co-investigator on numerous other projects,including 'Understanding Religion and Law:Muslims,Fatwas and Muftis in the UK’(with Robert Gleave and Mustafa Baig,2016–17), [7] 'Religion in multi-ethnic contexts:a multidisciplinary case study of global seafaring' (with Helen Anne Sampson,2017–20) [8]
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