This research is aiming to identify strategies to manage religious freedom and LGBT+ rights in the workplace. It focusses on government funded religiously affiliated workplaces.
The project combines empirical social research about workplace experiences and managerial practices with legal and philosophical analysis. The empirical research consists of two major national surveys, combined with long interviews with volunteer participants.It will produce findings that organisations and policy makers can immediately use to guide their responses to religious freedom and LGBT+ rights. The research is the first major study of this kind in Australia.
LGBTQ+ Survey
LGBTIQ+ employees in religiously affiliated workplaces
This survey is for LGBTQ+ people whose workplace has a religious affiliation. For example: Christian, Hindu or Islamic schools, private hospitals such as Catholic affiliated hospitals, social welfare agencies such as Anglicare, and aged care facilities such as Jewish or Salvation Army aged care.
We want to hear from LGBTQ+ workers such as nurses, doctors, teachers, teacher’s aides, health care workers, social workers, administrators, managers, counsellors, cleaners, support staff, and all other people who work in religiously affiliated organisations, or have done so in the last 5 years.
This study is designed to inform the development of LGBTQ+ inclusive practices and resources for workplaces with religious affiliations.
The survey takes approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete.
Religious freedom in Australia
This survey is for people who consider themselves religious, are over 18 years old, and live in Australia.
The survey aims to inform government policies and laws so that religious freedom and other rights are best protected. The survey asks about religious people’s experience of religious freedom and discrimination, and of their attitudes towards lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, and other genders and sexualities such as queer (LGBT+).
The survey takes approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete.
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The research is an Australian Research Council funded project being run by researchers at the University of Tasmania in conjunction with the University of Sydney and University of Ottawa, Canada.