"Religion & Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales"

"Research for the report Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales: A Decade of Continuity and Change was led by Paul Weller, Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at Derby, working with Oxford and Manchester universities."

"The research's chief findings include:

general feeling among respondents that better public education, and greater collaboration between different religions and communities, were now the best ways to continue to combat unfair treatment based on religion or belief;

substantial reporting of unfair treatment on the basis of religion or belief does continue across key areas of people's lives;

but indications that changes in the law had contributed to a reduction in the reported experience of unfair treatment on the basis of religion or belief;

especially among certain religious groups - such as Muslims, Pagans and new religious movements - unfair treatment continues to arise in key aspects of people's lives such as work, education and encounters with the media;

Christians citing unfair treatment around wearing crosses, reporting pressure to work Sundays by employers and a sense of their religion being marginalised whilst other faiths received fairer treatment;

some non-religious people quizzed in the project's focus groups highlighting the sense that Christians received privileged treatment, especially around matters of education and governance."

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