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 psychology to politics and theology to sociology, to gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between science and belief in peoples’ lives.
(This episode was recorded in July 2024)
This podcast is 34 minutes and 40 seconds long.
The keywords associated with this episode are:
- Multidisciplinary Research
- Science and Belief
- Science and Religion
- Future Directions
To learn more about Fern’s work, we recommend you check out:
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Hughes, R. E., Sharp, C. A., Leicht, C., & Elsdon-Baker, F. (2025). Global perceptions of religious and non-religious scientists. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 00846724251314496. Elsdon-Baker, F., & Lightman, B. (Eds.). (2020). Identity in a Secular Age: Science, religion, and public perceptions. University of Pittsburgh Press. Elsdon-Baker, F. (2015). Creating creationists: The influence of ‘issues framing’ on our understanding of public perceptions of clash narratives between evolutionary science and belief. Public Understanding of Science, 24(4), 422-439. |
