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... 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
I am an interdisciplinary senior researcher and educator who uniquely blends my background as a first-generation academic, former stonemason, and DPhil graduate from Oxford’s Resilient Buildings and Landscapes Lab (OxRBL), which I co-lead with Prof Viles. Holding dual appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the School of Geography and the Environment, I actively supervise... 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. At Regent’s Park College I am a Tutorial Fellow in Human Sciences and Director of the Computational Humanities Lab. At the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography I am Lead of the World History Lab which is part of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion.... 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