S4 Episode 10: What do Muslims think about science?
In the 10th episode of Season 4, sociologists Dr Saleema Burney (University of Birmingham) and Dr Stephen Jones (University of Keele), reflect on their research on the ‘Science and British Muslim Religious Leadership’ and ‘Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum’ projects where they studied the relationship between science and Islam. Taking a straightforward approach centered […]
S4 Episode 9: Where is the global in the history of science?
In the ninth episode of season four, Dr Sarah Qidwai a historian of science at the University of York (UK) who researches science and Islam in the 19th century, and Dr Alexander Hall, an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Canada who studies the history of biology and environmental science in popular media, discuss the importance […]
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 […]
S4 Episode 7: Exposing the oft overlooked historical connections between the natural and the supernatural
In the seventh episode of season four, we are excited to welcome Peter Harrison, Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland, to talk about his latest book, Some New World: myths of supernatural belief in a secular age, which explores the relationship between the natural and the supernatural across time, from […]
S4 Episode 6: How do students reconcile their beliefs with their school curriculum?
In the sixth episode of season four, Dr Rachael Shillitoe a sociologist and a senior social scientist in the British civil service, and Dr Elizabeth Barnes an Assistant Professor of Biology Education at Middle Tennessee State University, discuss their respective research on what primary school age children think about religion and how to teach culturally […]
S4 Episode 5: What do religious and spiritual Australians think about modern medicine?
In the fifth episode of season four, 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 where he researches Australian-specific sources of vaccine hesitancies around COVID-19 and other […]
S4 Episode 4: How do religious views affect abortion policies in the US and South America?
In the fourth episode of season four, 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 Austral in Buenos Aries in Argentina, discuss their research on how […]
S4 Episode 3: What do non-religious scientists think about their religious colleagues?
In the third episode of our new series, Dr Rebecca Catto, Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University (USA) who was for a decade a Principal Investigator on the Science and Religion, Exploring the Spectrum projects, talks about her research into science and non-religion. (This episode was recorded in August 2024)
S4 Episode 2: What role does morality play in the relationship between religion and science?
In the 2nd episode of Season 4, John H. Evans, Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Institute of Practical Ethics of the University of California San Diego, talks about how his research shows that the religion and science debate should increasingly focus on moral conflict between religion and […]
S4 Episode 1: The successes of the INSBS with Prof. Fern Elsdon-Baker
In the much anticipated first episode from the 4th season of our podcast, Fern Elsdon-Baker, Professor of Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society at the University of Birmingham, looks back at the successes of the network she founded in bringing together researchers from all over the world and from a wide variety of disciplines, from […]
