Experts

Jason Klocek

Jason's expertise investigates the causes, characteristics, and consequences of religious violence and repression, as well as the role of religion in peacebuilding.

American Politics Crime Equality International Relations Politics Religion Security War and security World Religion religious violence peace Peacebuilding repression radicalization Terrorism rebellion Government regulation

Professor Frances Knight

History of Christianity since 1800, specifically in Britain.

+44 (0) 115 846 7778 , +44 (0) 7855 657 328

History Religion history christianity Britain

Dr Arun Kumar

My work explores the socio-economic history of modern India. I work on the history of Indian labour, modern education, and subaltern literary cultures.I work in the following areas: 1. History of Modern India 2. Colonialism and the British Empire 3. Labour Market and Labour Conditions 4. Education History 5. History of Capitalism and Inequality 6. Caste and Social History. I am willing to work in the field of labour, poverty and inequality, and education.

0115 748 4098 or Press Office 0115 9515798

Education History International Relations Politics Religion War and security

Karma Tashi Choedron

Karma's primary research focus is on modern-day slavery (Trafficking in Persons), i.e. on migrant workers in Malaysia, South and Southeast Asia. Research is primarily focused on oil palm companies and the manufacturing industry and its supply chain, including certification bodies.

+6 03 8925 3563

Environment Gender International Relations Religion Rights Lab Trafficking in Persons Marginalised/Displaced Communities Gender Environmental Ethics conservation Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge buddhism sikhism modern-day slavery modern slavery migrant workers oil palm companies manufacturing industry supply chains certification bodies Social Injustice

Dr Rebecca Senior

Dr Rebecca Senior is an art historian specialising in visual cultures of violence, monuments, sculpture and material histories.Topics include art, colonialism, British art and material culture, exhibitions, allegory, symbolism, white supremacy, monuments, arts current affairs and art history.

07933 805754

Architecture and Built Environment Art Arts and Culture Cultures Equality History Religion World

Professor Tom O'Loughlin

Origins of Christianity; early Christianity in the Roman Empire; early Medieval Christianity in Europe: 400-900; Patristic Theology; maps and religion; Catholicism. The Bible and the history of its use. Religion in Ireland and Celtic Christianity. Women priests. The papacy, ecumenism, the Eucharist. Death in the Middle Ages.

+44 (0) 115 951 5852

Arts and Culture Religion christianity Roman Empire theology Catholicism Religion Gender

Professor Philip Goodchild

Philosophy of religion: critical theory. Relation between faith, credit, money, and financial and environmental crises.

+44 (0) 115 951 5856

Arts and Culture Religion Religion philosophy Critical Theory Faith money finance Environmental

Ruben Leitao Serem

Specific topics include: • Political, social, cultural and religious history of twentieth-century Spain (Second Republic: 1931- 1936; civil war: 1936-1939; and General Francisco Franco's dictatorship: 1939-1975) • The "memory wars" in Spain and Portugal (1999-present) • Portuguese-Spanish relations between 1926 and 1975 • Political, social and cultural history of twentieth-century Portugal (First Republic: 1910-1926; the Military/Estado Novo dictatorship: 1926-1974)Interested in external research collaboration and consultancy opportunities.

0115 748 4297

History International Relations Religion War and security

Dr Jon Hoover

Islamic Theology: Christian-Muslim relations. Ibn Taymiyya.

+44 (0) 115 951 5886

Arts and Culture Religion Religion theology Islamic christian muslim Relations

Professor Richard Bell

New Testament. Theology and science. Christianity and myth. Exorcism. Richard Wagner.

+44 (0) 115 951 5858

Arts and Culture Religion Religion humanities christianity Myth theology Science Exorcism

Professor Andrew Fisher

Teaching Philosophy to the young - esp. primary school children. Philosophy of Education - who should teach what? And who decides? Inclusivity in the classroom, safe spaces and trigger warnings, private schools and faith schools - should they exist? Cases for positive discrimination in admission to university. Philosophy of religion - religion vs science, reasons for/against God, demarcation of religion etc; Ethics - moral truth, moral facts, God and morality - how could they be linked? Applied ethics, normative ethics. Equality, diversity and inclusion - implicit bias, stereotype threat, chilly climates, decolonization of the curriculum, microaggressions, gender and sex, etc.

0115 846 7647

Arts and Culture Children Communications Cultures Education Equality Gender Health and Medicine Psychology Religion Science Sociology World Fisher

Tim Hutchings

Religion and digital media; religion and the news; online Christian communities and online churches; death and grief online

+44 (0)115 846 8935

Arts and Culture Communications Religion digital Religion grief online news Media christianity

Dr Alison Milbank

Theology and culture: literature, art, architecture, film and music; religious aesthetics and ideas of the beautiful, ugly, horrific; Gothic and horror fiction and its relation to religion; Dante; Anglican theology, especially ecclesiology and the nature of the church; GK Chesterton and JRR Tolkien.

+44 (0) 115 846 7209

Arts and Culture Religion theology Religion Culture Literature Art Architecutre Gothic Horror

Dr Conor Cunningham

The relation between science and religion. Theology and Darwin's theory of evolution.

+44 (0) 115 846 7390

Arts and Culture Religion Science Science Religion theology evolution

Religion