Academic in Wales claims UK has ‘subculture’ of 15,000 vampires – and launches academic study to assess their ‘satisfaction with life’
The picture accompanying this article suggests a rural milieu for its main subject – beware! It tells us in a piece which fully justifies parents paying £9K pa to send their off spring to University:
Dr Emyr Williams, a psychology lecturer at Glyndwr University in Wrexham, said that real vampires are a “global phenomenon” detailed across a range of non-fiction books and research papers.
He has set up what is thought to be the first online academic survey in the UK specifically looking for respondents who are vampires, with the hope, he says, of “publishing a series of academic publications that will help a wide audience understand the vampire subculture”.
The questionnaire – which if you are a vampire can be filled out here – looks at “the issues of satisfaction with life, self-esteem and religious belief among the contemporary subculture”.
Dr Williams told the BBC that while plenty of work has been done on the phenomenon of vampiric behaviour before, it has never really been approached from “an academic perspective”.