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 […]
Podcast Special: COVID, Conspiracies & Vaccines – Dr Tom Aechtner
Recently, we caught up with Dr Tom Aechtner, Senior Lecturer in Religion and Science at the University of Queensland, to record an episode for the Science & Belief in Society podcast series. That episode, on Tom’s work around persuasion tactics in science and religion mass media communication, will be launched in Summer 2021. Tom has […]
