The Science & Belief in Society Podcast

Bernard Lightman, a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at York University, in Toronto, Canada, who is best known for his work on the Cultural History of Victorian Science and Religion, talks about some of the highlights of his career and his curre... more

Sociologists Dr Saleema Burney and Dr Stephen Jones, now at the University of Keele, were both part of the ‘Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum’ project at the University of Birmingham. In this episode they talk about their research explorin... more

Dr Alexander Hall, an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Canada who studies the history ofbiology and environmental science in popular media, and Dr Sarah Qidwai at the University of York in the UK who researches science and Islam in the 1... more

In this episode, Dr Carissa Sharp, a social psychologist at the University of Birmingham, Dr Renny Thomas, a sociologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Bhopal, and Dr Arturo Fitz Herbert, from the Communications ... more

In this episode, Peter Harrison, Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland, talks about his latest book, Some New World: myths of supernatural belief in a secular age, which explores the relationship between the nat... more

Rachael Shillitoe is a sociologist and a senior social scientist in the British civil service. She was previously a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham where she studied what primary school age children think about religion. Dr... more

Dr Anna Halafoff, an Associate Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Spirituality and Wellbeing (SWell) Research Network, SWELL, based at Deakin University in Melbourne, and Dr Tom Aechtner, Associate Professor at the University of Queensland... more

Dr Amy Adamczyk, Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of City University of New York, and Dr Reynaldo Rivera and Dr Maria Sol Barbera, from the School of Communications at the Universidad Australin Buenos Aries in Arge... more