Episode 1: Introducing the Network – Professor Fern Elsdon-Baker

Professor Fern Elsdon-Baker is the Director for the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society and the Principal Investigator on the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum of Global Perspectives project. She is a Professor in Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society and is the Director of the Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society Research Group at the University of Birmingham. You can read her Researcher profile here.

In this episode, Fern introduces the Network and explains the importance of multi-disciplinary and international research into science and belief. Listen to it here:

[This podcast is 24 mins 05 secs long]

The key words associated with this podcast are:

• The study of Science and Belief in Society
• Internationalisation of research
• Social Sciences and Humanities
• Religion, Non-Religion and Spirituality
• Multi-disciplinary study
• Public perceptions of human evolution

To learn more about these issues, we recommend that you read:

• This book: ‘Identity in a Secular Age – Science, Religion and Public Perceptions’, edited by Fern Elsdon-Baker, Bernard Lightman; University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2020
• This article: ‘Diversification and internationalization in the sociological study of science and religion‘, S.Jones, T.Kaden, F.Elsdon-Baker; Wiley Online Library, July 2019
• This blog: History of Science and Religion: A historiographical introduction, S.Qidwai, Science and Belief in Society website, May 2020

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(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) edited by Fern Elsdon-Baker and Bernard Lightman.

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The giveaway is live for 14 days after the podcast is launched (20 October 2020). We will then select the winner at random and contact them by direct message to request postal details.

We will announce the winner on social media.

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