Carissa Sharp, Author at International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society

S4 Episode 8: Are scientists allowed to be religious at work?

In the eighth episode of season four, 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 Department of the Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires in Argentina join Deborah Cohen to discuss what scientists really believe in, and crucially what the public thinks they ‘should’ or ‘do’ believe in! (This episode was recorded in September 2024) This podcast is 33 minutes and 48 seconds long. The keywords associated with this episode are: sociology of science sociology of religion social identity public perceptions You can learn more about the findings of the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum project (including contributions from Arturo and Carissa) in a major new open-access book, International Perspectives on Science, Culture, and Belief: From Complexity to Globality (edited by

S3 Episode 8: Psychology of (non)Religion with Dr Carissa Sharp and Dr Carola Leicht

In the penultimate episode of the season, Will and Rebecca are joined by Dr Carissa Sharp, Assistant Professor in Psychology of Religion in the School of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, UK and Dr Carola Leicht, Reader in Organisational Behaviour at the University of Kent, UK. Carissa and Carola discuss their almost decade-long collaboration, using social psychological methods to explore questions of science-religion conflict and how religious and nonreligious social identities drive perceptions of conflict in unexpected ways. Carola presents the in-depth results of her work on atheist and “new atheist” perceptions of science and religion, before Carissa discusses how stereotypes impact both religious and non-religious perceptions. Carissa goes on to discuss a recent grant success supporting her work to develop psychological cross-training for theologians. (This episode was recorded in June 2023) This podcast is 63 minutes and 53 seconds long. The keywords associated with this episode