Sophie Gilliat-Ray OBE FBA FLSW is professor of Religious and Theological Studies and Director for the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University.
[1] 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.
[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]