Acting Principal
Reader in Sociology of Religion
Hossein Godazgar has a background in religions, Islam, social science and education, political philosophy and practical ethics, with special emphases on bioethics, the environment, and the foundations of law. The core of his research interests and expertise lies in the areas of sociology as well as religion, Islam, and Shi’ism in relation to various aspects of everyday life. He is an Honorary Fellow in Sociology at the University of Warwick and also an Honorary Fellow in Politics at the University of York. Dr Godazgar’s current research project focuses on physician-assisted suicide in Scotland.
Dr Godazgar is the author of The Impact of Religious Factors on Educational change in Iran: Islam in Policy and Islam in Practice, 2008. He has published several articles and chapters in English and Persian in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. Dr Godazgar is an editorial member of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions and field editor of Edwin Mellen Press. He is also guest editor of Social Compass, Special issue on Iran, 2007. He is a regular reviewer for publishers worldwide. He has given invited lectures and papers in the U.K., U.S., Spain, Italy, Mexico, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Jordan, Armenia and Iran.
Dr Godazgar would be interested in supervising research students on topics in social/political theory and religion, multiple modernities as well as Islam in association with higher education, science and technology, social and cultural change, bio/ethics, philosophy of law and human rights issues, globalisation, secularisation, ethno-religious identities, pluralism, social cohesion, post-modernism, consumerism and environment, state-nation relations (particularly bureaucracy and democracy), media, religious movements, fundamentalism, conflict or peace issues, and Sufism and spiritualism. Apart from relations between Islam and the West, he is also interested in the areas of Iran and the Middle East (with the inclusion of Turkey)/Central Asia/ the Caucasus. Dr Godazgar would also welcome opportunities to supervise research theses on topics related to physician-assisted suicides, particularly those in the area of Scotland, UK.
Getting in touch
Dr. Hossein Godazgar
Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education
124 Blackness Road
Dundee DD1 5PE
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1382 908070
Fax: +44 (0)1382 908077
E-mail: h.godazgar@almi.abdn.ac.uk
