My research interests cluster around the intersection of rhetoric, religion and intellectual history with English literature of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, especially the work of John Milton, John Bunyan, and other Puritan and Dissenting writers. Prior to joining Regent’s I was Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Exeter. I attended the... Read more
I am an economic historian and historian of capitalism in Britain, Ireland and the British empire over the past two centuries. My research focuses on the political economy of the causes and consequences of economic slumps, financial crises and famines, as well as the contributions made by British religious non-conformity to economic thought. My most recent... Read more
I am a fundraising and alumni engagement professional who has worked in the Charity and Education sectors. My fundraising career started as the first fundraiser at Viva Network (Viva), a charity working with those who serve at-risk children around the world. I remain a trustee of Viva and chair the Fundraising Committee as well as... Read more
My research focusses on the intersections of theology and religion with science, nature, and the environment. Specifically, I am interested in religious approaches to the contemporary ecological crisis, and much of my work is in the field of Christian ecotheology. My recent research draws on trauma theology to explore how the category of trauma might... Read more
My research focuses on the legal protection of sacred spaces and religious cultural heritage as well as on the coexistence of religious and non-religious legal systems, canon law and comparative religious law. Through my work, I engage with academics, policy makers, lawyers, religious leaders and think tanks working in the field of religion and public... Read more
I am Professor of Cultural Evolution at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Human Sciences at Regent’s Park College. At the Alan Turing Institute I am the Academic Lead on Data Science and AI for the Arts and Humanities. I am the Founding Director of the Seshat Global History Databank project. My... Read more
My academic interests are in practical theology, with my writing often focusing on gender, embodiment and ministry. More broadly I am interested in issues of faith in the public square, Baptist ecclesiology and the theology of mental health. I am a fully accredited Baptist minister in the Baptist Union of Great Britain. I underwent ministerial... Read more
My research focuses primarily on twentieth-century French phenomenology and existentialism; feminism; and ethics; I have published most extensively on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. I enjoy exploring metaphilosophical questions about philosophy and literature, philosophy and feminism, and philosophy and theology. Other interests include moral formation, ethical exemplars, and conceptions of love, sin, freedom and... Read more
My research interests lie in the interpretation of the New Testament, including in art, music and literature. I have been Departmental Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford, as well as Director of the Centre for the Reception History of the Bible. My role in College I am... Read more