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Dr Bankole Falade is a Research Fellow with the South African Research Chair in Science Communication, Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, Stellenbosch University.

A Social Psychologist, his work at CREST focuses on the interactions between science and religion; perceptions of health and disease in South Africa; public trust, interest, engagement with and attitudes to science; computerised media mapping for science news and social research methods. Prior to CREST, he was a teaching and research fellow at the department of psychological and Behavioural Sciences, London School of Economics and Political Science and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany.