Re/presenting Islam on campus: gender, radicalisation and interreligious understanding in British higher education

在过去的十年里，英国大学校园陷入了关于伊斯兰教的争论之中。某些危机会引起愤怒：“内裤”炸弹客、性别隔离和激进的演讲者。这类事件被归类为警察和大学管理部门的事务。大学部门还没有对伊斯兰教和激进主义采取公开立场，但我们相信许多教职员工和学生将欢迎更好地了解情况。我们在这项研究中的目的是分析校园中的伊斯兰教，并促进关于伊斯兰教作为英国生活和校园生活的一个组成部分的公开、知情的讨论。在当前的环境下，高等教育似乎在成为世界级研究的提供者（科里尼）、提高职能劳动力能力的认证机构（布朗报告）和需要监管的危险场所（奎利姆）之间摇摆不定。每种方法都可能成为需要挑战的刻板印象。我们认为，如果大学部门想要达到目的，就必须公开讨论这种困惑：充分准备好迎接日益多样化的国内和国际学生，以及一个日益复杂的世界，其中包括世界宗教的复兴。这项开创性的研究将首先对一系列不同的叙述给予同等的重视，例如来自媒体、学者、穆斯林社区、学生管理者、政府和激进化专家的叙述，以衡量它们各自的可信度和矛盾性。我们将与四所大学和一所大学附属的穆斯林学院合作，在与高等教育部门的学生、员工和其他利益相关者的对话中，追踪和分析这些不同观点的来源。我们将与包括AMOSSHE（高等教育学生服务管理协会）、新加坡国立大学、伊斯兰社团和穆斯林青年组织（逊尼派和什叶派）在内的利益相关者密切合作。考察教职员工和学生的个人观点以及“官方”话语将提供对伊斯兰教在大学背景下如何发挥作用的关键解释。这些意见将使用各种方法收集和分析，包括在线问卷调查，收集统计数据，访谈，焦点小组和数据可视化技术。对于基于大学的影响，我们将成为混合利益相关者群体的催化剂：学生，员工，专业机构，政策制定者和第三部门。我们将让它们参与收集和传播良好做法的模式，并共同制定新的解决办法。他们将解释调查结果的数据分析，包括使用数据可视化，在研讨会上挑战刻板印象，重新思考，共同提出建议，以明确校园伊斯兰教和伊斯兰研究这一主题。通过促进校园内当地社区和穆斯林组织对伊斯兰教的辩论和反思，寻求公开讨论和理解，将进一步影响大学以外的地区。在诺丁汉的新艺术交流中心（NAE） （www.nae.org.uk）的一个数据可视化项目中，对我们对穆斯林的看法的创造性解释将得到促进，吸引年轻人进入重新思考和重新想象英国公共生活中宗教地位的过程。我们还将与格莱斯顿图书馆合作http://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/。与NAE一样，格莱斯顿图书馆也向少数族裔社区伸出了援手。每个都将提供一个有组织的宗教间参与的典型案例研究。我们将把通常不见面的人聚集在一起：来自大学的学者和利益相关者，来自大学以外的社区团体，政策制定者，虔诚的穆斯林和世俗主义者。精心策划的参与和有效的知识交流活动将帮助他们发展，然后分享他们对高等教育面临的激进化、性别和宗教间挑战的实际答案

Over the last decade the UK university campus has become mired in debates about Islam. Certain crises arouse outrage: the 'underpants' bomber, gender segregation and radicalising speakers. Such episodes are classified as matters for the police and university management. The university sector has not taken a public position about Islam and radicalisation, yet we believe that many staff and students will welcome a better understanding of the situation. Our aims in this research are to analyse Islam on campus and to facilitate open, informed discussion about Islam as an integral aspect of British life and campus life. In the current climate, higher education seems torn between being a provider of world class research (Collini), an accreditor of improved functional workforce capacity (Browne Report) and a dangerous place that requires policing (Quilliam). Each approach can become a stereotype that needs to be challenged. We believe that such confusion must be discussed openly if the university sector is to be fit for purpose: fully ready for an increasing variety of home and international students and an increasingly complex world that incorporates the renaissance in world religions. This ground-breaking research will initially give equal weight to a range of different narratives e.g. from media, academics, Muslim communities, student managers, government and radicalisation experts, in order to gauge their respective credibility and contradictions. Working with 4 universities and one Muslim college affiliated to a university, we will trace and analyse the sources of these different perspectives in dialogue with students, staff and other stakeholders across the HE sector. We will work closely with stakeholders including AMOSSHE (Association of Managers of Student Services in Higher Education), NUS and Islamic societies and Muslim youth organisations, both Sunni and Shi'i. Examining personal views among staff and students alongside 'official' discourses will provide a critical account of how perceptions of Islam play out within university contexts. These views will be collected and analysed using a variety of methods, including an online questionnaire survey to collect statistical data, interviews, focus groups and data visualisation techniques. For university-based impact we will be catalysts for mixed stakeholder groups: students, staff, professional bodies, policy makers and third sector. We will involve them in collecting and disseminating models of good practice, and in the co-production of new solutions.They will interpret data analysis of findings, including using data visualisation, to challenge stereotypes and think afresh in workshops, co-producing recommendations for developing clarity about Islam on campus and about Islamic Studies as a subject. Further impact beyond the university will be achieved by fostering debate and reflection about Islam on campus among local communities and Muslim organisations, seeking open discussion and understanding. Creative interpretation of our findings about perceptions of Muslims will be facilitated in a data visualisation project at the New Arts Exchange (NAE) in Nottingham (www.nae.org.uk), drawing young people into a process of rethinking and reimagining the place of religion within British public life. We will also work with Gladstone's Library http://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/. Like NAE, Gladstone's Library reaches out to minority communities. Each will provide an exemplary case study of organisational interreligious engagement.We will bring together people who never usually meet: academics and stakeholders from universities, community groups from beyond the university, policy makers, devout Muslims and secularists. Well planned involvement and effective knowledge exchange events will help them to develop and then share their practical answers to the challenges facing higher education of radicalisation, gender and interfaith