David Voas

David Voas (born 1955) is a quantitative social scientist. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Social Science at University College London, where he led the Social Research Institute from 2016 to 2020. He was previously Professor of Population Studies at the University of Essex and Simon Professor of Population Studies at the University of Manchester.

Voas served on the executive committee of the European Values Study and on the council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. He is co-director of British Religion in Numbers, an online centre for British data on religion. He is on the editorial boards of the ''British Journal of Sociology'' and the ''Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion''. His research concerns religious change and value change in modern societies, the intergenerational transmission of religion and values, and attitudes of and towards ethno-religious minorities. Provided by Wikipedia