Lois' current research interests centre on the nature of the existential in modernity, with an empirical focus on non-theist and nonreligious populations.īuilding on past work at the Religion and Political Theory Centre at UCL’s School of Public Policy, her work engages normatively as well as scientifically with questions around the role of religious and nonreligious existential culture in public life. Lois' doctoral research explored what it means to be nonreligious and argued that not only is nonreligious culture a present and influential force in contemporary societies but that its study also helps us to recognise the existential, meaning-making dimension to the lives of nonreligious people – something that the nonreligious and religious have in common. Her early research focused on religious and nonreligious identities and ideology in relation to nineteenth century political thought, before moving on to contemporary sociological studies of people who are identified as nonreligious. Lois received a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Leeds and her MPhil and PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, before taking up research and teaching roles at the University of Kent's Department of Religious Studies and UCL's School of Public Policy and Institute of Advanced Studies.
She is Principal Investigator on the Understanding Unbelief programme in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kent, a landmark research programme into atheism, agnosticism and other forms of so-called unbelief around world, majorly funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
Dr Lois Lee joined the Department of Religious Studies in 2017 as a Research Fellow, becoming Senior Research Fellow in 2018 and Senior Lecturer in 2020.
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